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  • You asked a straight-forward question and got irrelevant responses you didn’t ask for based on their own priorities… As they’re browsing a Reddit community… on Lemmy. Weirdman. There are other reasons to be on Reddit, obviously, and you can simultaneously grow this community while having a foot there as well.

    To answer your question: To my knowledge, Reddit uses a mixture of IP banning, Web Browser fingerprinting, and behavioral analysis (e.g., which subs you frequent, upvote, etc.). I think the IP ban only lasts so long — some things I’ve read after 100 days (except original registration IP)? After all, IPs are not often static for an individual or may be a gateway for many users. Which is why they associate an IP with a web browser fingerprint. They not only pull the cookies, but additional info independent of cookies about the browser used but other information like your computer monitor setup are utilized.

    TOR browser used to work, but Reddit changed their log-in page and its CAPTCHA requirements fuck with its log-in.

    VPN + Incognito alternative browser from what you traditionally use, or if you really want to get fancy, a VM instance. DO NOT use your phone that was linked to your banned account either to log on. Alternatively you may be able to request a new IP from your ISP? You basically have to come up with a scenario that gives a plausible scenario that you are a different user than the other person who was banned.




  • Honestly? If I had it my way, there would be a DEFCON 5 Alert across every single subreddit in solidarity with the literal fucking crisis that is happening right now. This extends well beyond how much I care about some subreddit and how randomized the platter of pics are. At the end of the day, you can’t “force” generality in a sub with loose rules on submissions; hell I think they even allow people to filter them as they’re tagged as political to begin with.


  • lennybird@lemmy.worldtoReddit@lemmy.worldReddit’s vibe has suddenly changed yet again
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    Nah r/pics is pics and pics of anything are permitted there.

    Naturally it represents the zeitgeist and what is on the collection of people’s minds who frequent that sub will determine the content.

    Beggars can’t be choosers. If you want more specific rules, then find more niche subs. Simple as that.

    Alternatively, don’t shove fascists down our throats and this wouldn’t happen.




  • All that means is the left is primarily the populous option

    Does it? This is in fact just as speculative; after all, it could also mean that the left is primarily the more logically-accurate sample. Alternatively it could mean the data sets from linguistics and critical-thinking books are inherently antithetical to the “poorly educated” conservatives (Trump’s words, not mine). Besides, I venture a guess that if this data is pulled from the vastness of the internet that includes the likes of 4chan, facebook, breitbart, fox news, and so on… Then I’m going to take a wild guess and say that the conservative sets are pretty well represented.

    Not that they’re perfect, but yes, it all depends on the data sets through which they’re evaluated. Nevertheless, logic is logic and one of the easier things to parse for these machine-learning tools. Imperfect though they may, if they can code a Python application, then they can recognize that 2 + 2 != 5 just the same within linguistics.

    Not the end-all solution, of course, but merely a diagnostic utility in the toolbox to help thwart fallacious thinking and gaslighting. This Software Engineer shall continue to use it absent of a better argument, thank you very much.


  • I’ve been using AI as a utility to analyze discussions with other users and to determine who has the objectively better argument. I have it compare fallacies used in both quantity and severity.

    Particularly with Trump supporters it’s no surprise the ratio is usually 3 or 4:1.

    It could be used in this context against AI, too, because the directive isn’t to persuade but to analyze logic.




  • we do live in a climate where men are seen exclusively as current and temporarily embarrassed perpetrators, and less so as fellow victims.

    All due respect, but where is your evidence because the way I see it is this (male here btw):

    • Men perpetrate the vast majority of homicides.
    • Men overwhelmingly control the vast majority of wealth and power positions, globally.
    • Men are responsible for the vast majority of wars throughout history.
    • Men are responsible for the majority of physical domestic violence cases — particularly those leading to homicide.
    • Is there anywhere in the world where men are oppressed by women the way women are in, say, Afghanistan or Iran or Russia (legalized domestic violence)?

    The data in the UK probably doesn’t exist because the instances are that much more rare. I’m open to being wrong, but until numbers are brought to the table, we’re talking data vs. speculation. What we do know is that Men account for 85-95% of convicted homicides, globally, making an outsized number relative to the portion that they are victims (somewhere around 75%). Of this subset, the most rare scenario is a male victim and female perpetrator.

    There are of course instances of women murdering men and those should not be downplayed; but let’s neither invoke a false equivalence fallacy.