With how much they ban people, how is anyone still left posting?
I can just refresh the profile page in an incognito tab and watch new accounts disappear at random. One hour, one post, three days, 20 posts, subreddit, IP address country or region, browser, single use mail provider, nothing seems to consistently matter. How it it actually possible for, like, some normie doofus to actually start and keep an account?
Bots, that's how. Reddit is thirty, forty, or even fifty percent bots. Maybe even higher.
Dead internet theory.
Even random posters on AskReddit threads are noticing.
Everything is recycled from 2009-2019.
One of my accounts was permanently banned for saying "a boy is not a woman".
Reason for ban: "Hate"
I made a joke about an adult anime character.
Reason for banning: sexualizing underage persons (she has a 21 year old daughter)
Appeal: they admitted they couldn't find the actual comment BUT they kept the ban anyhow.
Oh! I had become a Mod just a week earlier... coincidence I'm sure 😡
They banned a secondary account of mine for ban evasion. This was odd because the account rarely commented, had no posts and had so little points that I couldn’t comment more than once every 10 or so minutes site-wide. Someone wasted their time to ban an account that was as tame as it could get, not sure how they even found it. I think they’re trying to crackdown on any accounts that could be potentially ban evading, and it’s catching a lot of random new accounts on accident.
I think they operate on a white list logic. Any account that doesn't show progressive tendencies out of the gate is automatically flagged.
That's easy enough to get around. Just pay your lip service and delete it later (or not).
Is that new? Outside the tranny jannies in certain subs demanding banned users respect their authoritah the Peddit admins never used to care about ban evasion as long as the ban evader didn't continue posting wrongthink.
They're way more radicalized and insane than you remember.
I'm going to ban-evade very soon. Screw them. Banned me and couldn't even say what the comment was.
Yeah. I had to make an account for work a week or so ago to ask a question about a particular thing in a particular small~mid-sized sub and I was immediately shadowbanned. Of course I didn't know that at the time but I made my post and waited a few hours and had no response so I checked the post and it said that it was removed. I messaged the mods of the sub and they told me that I was shadowbanned.
I don't know how normies sign up for new accounts.
They don't, no actual humans join Reddit anymore.
You have to post to subreddits that aren’t censored safe spaces for a while.
Then your account can post to the leftist echo chambers.
Of course you can check all this by opening in incognito. (using a tor browser isn’t necessary- their shadow banning is currently not advanced)
I Imagine in the future they will deploy bots to reply to you to make you think you are uncensored.
It's been like that for at least a couple years now. You need a janny to manually approve your posts and comments until you gain enough karma to get through the filters. I played that game on a couple of accounts before I decided that I have better things to do with my time. I've found content on some gaming and technical subs useful but it's been ages since I felt the need to interact.
Thank them for releasing you and move on from that insane asylum
I have a burner account that I can't use anywhere. Basically every subreddit requires a minimum karma level so you have to participate in the circlejerk to keep from being automatically banned.
How do you make an anonymous Twitter account? Even a tor browser doesn't work.
Don't use tor browser. Make a tutanota or protonmail account and wait for 2 days. This will make sure that your account doesn't get locked when you receive the Twitter OTP like 5 minutes after account creation.
Use Windows or Ubuntu with VPN. Passing the captcha for creating an X account is lengthy (10-15 minutes) but it's faster on ubuntu. Then keep liking, retweeting, commenting and eventually your reach wlll increase and more people will see your activity.
Didn't work. Twitter doesn't say it explicitly, but most VPN IP adresses were blocked. The account was only made when I turned it off, defeating the point.
Have been using Proton VPN (paid version) and using Twitter regularly on several accounts. The accounts I created and used in 2024 are mostly on Ubuntu.
I made a gmail acct a few months back, just to get back to Reddit. I got banned shortly after becoming a mod on some "right wing" subs, sheer coincidence I'm sure! (They couldn't even quote the comment I was banned for, still perma-banned) What program should I use to hide my IP address? It doesn't change :x
Reddit keeps shadowbanning all my accounts too. I only use Reddit over VPN but now they won't let me be on it. But not X, just use Proton VPN paid version and ensure your browser is in private mode before you load X.com.
What exactly do you mean when you say 'new accounts disappear at random'? Do you mean that the comments disappear or that you get the (shadow)banned message?
If it's just comments, it is easy to answer.
There's never a message. The user profile page disappears along with all comments. You're free to shout into the void forever with no indication that anything changed.
I Imagine in the future they will deploy bots to reply to you to make you think you are uncensored.
Its the same thing here.