Fuck it, I'm out. Feel free to re-read my last post, or not. I have better things to do than this. Good luck I guess.

You're assuming they detected OP, but how do you know they didn't just ban a particular Mulvad VPN server because of something someone else did?

Used mullvad browser. Is this record broken?

Yes they did

That sounds pretty trivial to me but OK. Also VPNs are meaningless if your telemetry is reporting the same browser/machine. Read up on browser fingerprinting and such if you really care that much.

There's also a decent chance that the VPN server(s) you're using already got banned for reasons unrelated to you, something else to consider.

I have no idea. I basically only accessed using that browser / VPN combo, and never used that browser/VPN for anything else. The only link is that to sign up to proton, I needed to use an email address that is linked to me - but proton SAY it's not shared etc.

My feeling is it was just banned for being generally sus (new account, no browser fingerprint, mullvad VPN). No reason was given other than 'breaking terms'.

Edit: I think the only way I could use Reddit would be to buy an account via G2G or something like that

Browser fingerprinting? They didn't mention using a different browser despite all the efforts listed.

I wonder how they detected you. This will be practice for getting around age verification in the future.

I did exactly that. Mullvad VPN which I'd never used before, used mullvad browser via this VPN (also never used before) so create a new proton mail account. Signed up etc. The account was immediately shadowbanned (posts and comments were not visible apart from to myself), and was banned permanently within 2 months even though I only made about 10 inoffensive comments.

It was not trivial.

It would be trivial to circumvent if you took the time to learn about browser fingerprinting, registered a new e-mail, and set up a VPN or something, but why bother at this point? Reddit is getting shittier by the day. I'm close to leaving even without any bans.

What'd you do to get banned? Once you're banned, it's against their terms of service to create a new account to evade the ban.

They got so much telemetry that you could show them the inside of your asshole and they would know it was you. And now you know why they require using their app on mobile and Javascript on desktop.

Yeah you're on the proper ban list now. You need to accept you'll basically never be able to use Reddit again.

No kidding. I was so confused and hated this place when I started. .ml stuff is all I would see, it was like all my feed showed and all I'd find on all. I thought ru disinformation was the only point of lemmy.

The more left wing is still the majority as far as I can tell.
My comment wasn't so much on the politics as it was on moderators that are weird sometimes.
It's not bad here IMO, but it happens. More precisely with Burstar on https://lemmy.world/c/ukraine@sopuli.xyz.
But he has almost killed that sub now, that used to be by far the biggest Ukraine sub, but now we have more activity here on https://lemmy.world/c/ukraine. But it is also a downside, that the most active Ukraine site is only ranked 5th in a search on Ukraine communities.

This comment should appear as a welcome message for every new Lemmy user.

Yea, Lemmy (especially .world) is sadly full of the same centrist lib shits as reddit is.

the voting machines being rigged barely made the news several times and it was immediately quashed in the msms, and on reddit.

Apollo still works through sideloading though, there’s a whole community that keeps it alive.

That said, I don’t recommend going back to Reddit…

My app survived (Relay) but I left anyway because I do not believe in giving money to a website/app when they can just make money from their ads that I block. My ISP already gets $50/mo from me and that's too much as-is.

Typical reddit, simping for genocidists...
Glad you made the switch. You'll fit in perfectly here. Just be sure to avoid the Tankies (pro-Russia, pro-China Authoritarian bootlickers who pretend to be communists); your Lemmy experience will improve tremendously simply by blocking hexbear.org, beehaw.org, and any instance ending in .ml (lemmy.ml, lemmygrad.ml)

Biden should've taken the advice of every single pundit and just not run for reelection given the state of the country. If Harris acknowledged the reality that people did not recover from the pandemic, on average, or that the AIPAC positions was untenable, she would have won, regardless of when the campaign started.

She chose to lose as a sycophantic vice president, instead of running for president.

I'd bash reddit, but incels need their safe space!

I thought she accepted the result in order to not be a big crybaby about it like the guy who lost in 2020.

Edit: typo

Biden gave up at a bad point in time. I guess he just had brainfog from corona during that one show, i had that too. Its brain damage like losing ability to smell but can repair itself. Better reason to hand over earlier would have been his overall age early on and he could have supported kamala so good.