even if they lifted a ban, people have reported being re-shadowbanned almost quickly anyways, because they dont clean out thier filters, after someone ban has been lifted. you only need to look at reddit wrong to get banned. new users, old accounts are not safe.

only the determined people will ban evade, have new IP address, new device, and other methods of ban evasions. those that make hundreds if not thousands of accounts to earn money from.

lemmy largely get reddit users, if reddit started banning in large amounts again. but i think they caught on to the fact that if they do perma-site wide ban too many people will notice and they will jump ship too fast.

thats why shadowbans are much more insidious, people might not even notice right away that they were shadowbanned.

I'll admit the streaks kept me hooked to at least checking in daily. Then I got a permaban so I couldn't do streaks anymore so I stopped using the site.

The engagement farming is reaching facebook levels.

There are a lot bigger things that we had to deal with daily, and there are lot bigger problems with the platforms, communities, and broader social impacts that remained on my mind than the small percentage of people inconvenienced by the decisions some people made to keep their mod teams from being overworked. You're not the only one butthurt by the bot, but the alternative was worse so I still don't really care.

people might not even notice right away that they were shadowbanned.

It's feeling very strongly like their ideal platform has millions of shadowbanned users, or more correctly, millions of users in their own instanced versions of reddit, populated entirely by AI creating the impression of community, influencing and shaping the attitudes, behavior, political beliefs and shopping habits of entire nations.

The massive influx of bots pretending to be humans doesn't really bode well for the future of social media.

Yah I went through all that, you have to really clean your browser before and after resetting your IP, and if you use anything connected to your old account you will be immediately shadowbanned, as well as if you use a VPN to sign up, or even to log in.

I eventually gave up, it's too much work to interact with bots and brainless people.

Always did not like Reddit..
As an ex newgen reddit user reddit banned me for literally no reason.. Did not receive any reason, just some strange invisible ban (I could log in to account, do anything and etc and it would say Server Error)..
Also this karma sh**..

browser canvas size, fingerprinting, they look at your screen resolution, your browser size, the current version, if your browser is minimized,,,etc. there are ways to hide that, but you probably have to go to a different forums how to do it.

the most recent ones, palintir was blatantly obvious, i dont know if reddit has done anything about these subreddits that PALINTIR is using right now,

that is what reddit is trying to achieve, become a facebook clone. matter of time they push the verification that FACEBOOK uses to make accounts, if they get"suspicious"

I had an alt account, I accidentally upvoted my main account's post and got shadow banned. I didn't realize for 3 months when I was like "why the fuck does no-one reply to my comments and does not even downvote let alone upvote my posts". But that was like 4 years ago.

literally same but I did not like myself bru

Talk about dramatic. Bro just block people and get on with your life.

For the sub rules.

First time I'm hearing of the CQS. Wow, just wow. Dystopian shit.

New account experience on Reddit in 2025:

• Create an account;
• Post something on a subreddit that has AutoMod configured to instantly remove posts/comments from new accounts, accounts with low karma or accounts with low CQS;
• Get a site-wide shadowban because your first contribution was removed;
• If you're unaware of shadowbans, keep using the site, leaving comments, thinking nobody replies to you because you're not that interesting;
• If you're aware of them, keep trying to appeal with zero effect.

Fuck Steve Huffman and fuck his enshittified site.

Fun fact: the "Enshittification" article on Wikipedia has Reddit among the examples.

If an app can scrape phone info without prompting for extra permissions, you can bet the app dev is scraping that data and storing it alongside session data for security purposes.
Web browsers are much more sandboxed. Still plenty of ways to fingerprint tho

I heard about that from my darkweb days. It's amazing how much of a fingerprint everyone leaves. I decided that if I have to fire up TOR and encryption to talk to redditors who are often bots anyway, it's probably a dead platform