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Creating an anonymous Reddit account without getting shadowbanned (self.privacy)
submitted 5 months ago by to c/privacy@lemmy.ml
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I sadly kinda need Reddit because it's the only place where I can talk to other Turkish LGBTQ+ people, and I need my account to be anonymous because of the recent developments in Turkey, where the majority government is about to propose a bill that will literally make publicly identifying as LGBTQ illegal.

Any comment I make in my current account just shows up as [removed] and my account doesn't even show up in redlib like it doesn't even exist. Can't send any DMs either, it just gives me a very vague error.

The way I first signed up was pretty suspicious tbh (Mullvad VPN + Browser and cock.li e-mail address). Is there a better way I could do this without sharing any PII?

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[–] 3 points 5 months ago

I’m supposing that they’ve shadowbanned me because I’m using a VPN

Almost for sure.

It used to be possible to sign up like that. Now, you can sign up, but if you try to post, boom, shadowban.

I once had an account I used to answer some help request posts like computer stuff, how do I do this or that. I eventually noticed nobody ever replied to my posts. No upvotes. No downvotes. Nothing! So I looked without being signed in. Sure enuf, nobody but me could see anything I posted. I didn't know that was a thing reddit did. I was genuinely trying to help ppl. I got shit on for it. Felt bad, man.

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