Bullshit. It’s a move to maximize censorship.

Don’t be duped by fairy tale stories of any variety that seek to shackle your mind.

The original IP used to register is kept forever. I believe subsequent IPs used to log are held for a year. If you request all your data from reddit (they’re legally obligated to provide, you can see this).

They also combine this IP with browser fingerprinting.

Censorship — So many subs have extremely odd restrictions on posts and comments; special rules to be able to comment; a list of words or phrases that shadow-remove your comments, etc. This sometimes doesn’t matter with day-to-day stuff. It inhibits the capacity to explore controversial topics or have hard conversations. “Can’t meta-refer to another thread or sub,” “We want good content, but don’t post lengthy sourced write-ups!,” You find after dissecting why your comment was shadow-removed that “genocide” or “apartheid” trigger removal. No Ellipsis use on one sub, lol. I have a list of censored words by sub. Can’t explore tough issues without legitimate adherence to free speech. It’s one thing not to enable bigotry and incivility, but we need to be comfortable with being uncomfortable sometimes in order to yield breakthrough progress across echo-chambers.

Power-tripping mods — It has become worse in recent years. Subs that used to have respectable mods and a true appeals process just comes down to them blindly reaffirming whatever judgement there is absent of reason or ethics. Ultimately they aren’t arbiters of civil discourse but more often than not blatantly attempt to shape discourse relative to their own agenda; r/news and r/worldnews are notorious for this, particularly.

Blocking — The hit-and-run of users throwing out weak arguments then running away by blocking is itself disappointing; but that when a user blocks it nukes the rest of the thread, disallowing you to respond to anyone else who independently replies to you makes ZERO sense.

(Bonus: bots, but that’s a given).

In the end I’ll go wherever the people are. I’ll use reddit, lemmy, and I’m hopeful that the new old Digg returning with Kevin Rose and Ohanian will work out.

How so?

His departure from Reddit in 2020 preceded the major API destruction that pretty much falls exclusively on Huffman to my knowledge. As a bonus Ohanian to his credit on leaving:

On June 5, 2020, Ohanian resigned from Reddit’s board, asking to be replaced by a Black candidate in response to the murder of George Floyd.[2] Days later, Michael Seibel, an African-American entrepreneur, was named a Reddit board member.

For those who haven’t heard, Digg is poetically making a comeback, with a team-up between Kevin Rose and Alex Ohanian no less. They bought Digg back a couple months ago and are going back to something closer to the old Digg.

I’m still using old reddit, but I’m very excited about the return of Digg and partnership of Kevin Rose and Alex Ohanian. Hopefully that scares Huffman and somewhere in the Great Beyond, Aaron Swartz is smiling.

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.

Holy hell how much plastic did Huffman invest to look like a dollar general bond villain.

lol gtfo bootlicking simp. You exemplify why Trump said he loves the poorly educated, bud.

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.

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.

I’ve noticed:

• r/news and r/worldnews hijacked by conservative zionist mods.

• r/pics locking many political anti-maga comment threads with hardly anything there and never an explanation for transparency.

• r/conservative feels like it’s being artificially amplified.

You do you. A lot of people here are probably bullshitting themselves; and honestly, leaving will only exacerbate the problem of media silos. They want to take over Reddit and turn it into another X when there it still has a massive Anti-Trump presence, evidently by this sub getting temp-banned.

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.

Of course. It’s just a curious comment section that shifts to a falsely equivalent whataboutism fallacy when the subject-matter at hand given the submission is a very present and documented danger. I of course would not be opposed to anyone submitting data that they or someone else gathers for male victims of female perpetrators, too.

Red-pilled incel rhetoric really seems to run rampant 'round these parts.

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.

Lmfao golden considering the amount of imports and exploitation of 3rd world nations as you drain their resources dry and exploit their cheap labor. Have some humility, buddy.