Yes there are a lot of users and communities there but I constantly get banned for no reason. It’s appalling.

Yesterday, I connected using Tor, created an account barely done anything (because you can’t do much anyway) and then today it’s banned. It happened before, I’m ready to give up now.

It’s so frustrating. I really hope they go bust and Lemmy take over. Wishing thinking I know…

  • southsamurai@sh.itjust.works
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    1 month ago

    Look, being real, regardless of whether or not the initial ban was justified (and I believe you when you say it wasn’t, because everything is automated now, and there’s way too many false hits), you gotta take a step back and realize that trying to get around a ban is a justified reason to ban a new account. Would be anywhere, even on the fediverse. Nobody trying to bypass a ban is trustworthy. The act of trying shows the person is going to engage in activity that they know they shouldn’t. Might not be malicious, but that’s irrelevant

    If you really need to access reddit, and you manage to make an account that doesn’t get detected, don’t do anything on it but read. No comments, no posts, no votes. Stay purely passive. It’s the only way anyone I know that’s been fingerprinted has managed to keep an account logged in. Even that’s not certain, because once they have a good fingerprint, it gets harder and harder each time you add to it, to work around it.

    You have to treat any new account attempt as high security, to divorce it from anything and everything you’ve done in the past. You’ll likely need a new device on top of other obfuscation. Fwiw, they sometimes just wipe accounts connected over tor, or vpn, when you change the exit. It isn’t always, but I’ve known people doing nothing other than passive scrolling to get banned aged that’s the only thing they did different.

    Good luck, but be aware that it’s a lost cause

    • zcatch@fedinsfw.appOPEnglish
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      1 month ago

      Yes I agree with you.

      In my specific case it was either “device fingerprinting” or because of Tor, which is not great on their part.

      I do appreciate they have to somehow deal with a lot of bots and SPAM account so that’s not an easy job. It just feels like some harmless users are getting banned unfairly. But as you said, it’s all automated these days and it sounds like a lost cause :)