I find it odd, but a lot of newer users on Reddit go with the default suggested username and those follow the word-word-0000 template.

At the same time, it might be better for privacy to do that since it's less likely that someone can track you across platforms if you use the generator built into each platform.

yes, and PALINTIR is active on reddit using propaganda bots, along side the russian and MOSSAD ones.

I had a similar names. I didn't care about "expressing myself" and didn't want you link it to myself in any way, so every time I would just accept the random gibberish reddit suggests when creating a new account.

Like my current RailcarXxxx username. It was just suggested I think when creating my first Lemmy, and just reused it through instances

Reddit suggested usernames are always dumb shit like that.

While I agree that Reddit is awash in (multiple) state propaganda, and that posting violent rhetoric, or even sympathy for it, there is likely to put you on a list (or multiple), I don't think Reddit users really trust it's that safe. In the last year and a half, since Luigi, there has been huge amounts of bitterness over the censorship of content and strict banning policies. People have discussed, and followed through on, leaving in droves. Huge amounts of old content are no longer available because people scrubbed their post history on the way out.

If the current discourse doesn't reflect that, I would suggest it's because :

1. the real people still there remain to discuss uncontroversial niche topics
2. political discussion there is largely driven by bots and paid actors now

The user interaction metrics they've added have been interesting tho. Millions of south and SE Asians are flocking to reddit.

It's been wild to watch how the site has grown over the past 15 years for me. Back durning trump's first term I deleted my account and alts due to paranoia. I'm starting to think I should do the same for newer accounts or abandon the site entirely; hense my presence here.

I heard murmurs about Lemmy when the API shit was going down a few years ago but it was so small back then the switch didn't really make sense for me. Now that the paranoia is back I don't feel as comfortable/safe commenting on reddit anymore

Between reddit's control freak mods, their selective enforcement of rules, their lack of mod behavior restrictions, ads made to look like postings, etc you have very little freedom outside of porn surprisingly. You have to stick to the groupthink in subs or get banned which makes most comments predictable, agreeable and milktoast.

I tend to think that -- for myself for sure but probably most other people -- after a decade plus on Reddit, you've likely said and posted enough stuff that somebody could follow the breadcrumbs back to you. Theyd have to really want to and it would take a lot of reading your posts, but it could probably be done. Anonymity doesn't exist without a vpn, and even then you're probably still identifiable. Don't say, post or do anything on the internet that youre not willing to defend/pay for in real life.

Budget-Chicken-2425

Looks like his account is suspended now.

https://youtube.com/shorts/h9DRcWStaC4

"Some very rich old white men are exerting their power to suppress our own people, thus creating a feeling of civil war in the streets."

Fascists are the weakest and most brittle snowflakes.

So, it should be easy to break them, right.

All Americans would have to do is organize themselves and end this increasing dystopia.

Wtf you can be banned for upvoting?

I got permabanned for comparing israel to the Nazis. Fuck Reddit.

Of course, any time your information is on a privatized network you might as well just assume it's for sale.

i'm certain ghislaine is reddit management so...

If they get subpoenaed they have no choice.

It's not dead, it's just pining for the fjords.

they have palintir bots which they know about but wont do anything, plus russian propaganda is almost rarely get cleaned out when they do actual purges, which targets real users instead. they also now have israeli mods/bots to gatekeep criticism against israel. all the purges have target the lowest hanging fruits, irl users, than OF/link spamming the ones that are cutting into thier profits somehow.

The first four years or so that I was on Reddit, I never once received a ban for anything. Since Trump was elected, I pretty much got temp bans every couple of months. Every one was from me being mean to obvious Russian trolls. And then this morning, I got permanently banned for a comment I made over a week ago, that according to Reddits own metrics, received a grand total of zero views. I called a fascist a, um, fascist, and that he wasn’t just licking boots, he was deep throating them. That was a step too far, according to Reddit. And now I’m here.

Hopefully they never invade your country either

Yeah, fuck reddit, fuck usa and fuck trump

These people will not be contained to the usa.

You have allies in the states. Don’t abandon them.

Still working on making my American GF Canadian.

Lemmy now has its own echo chambers and control freak mods too though.

I'd argue it was pretty shit for a long while. The fact that r/conservative with the vile spew they have is still allowed is all you need to understand.

You don't honestly think that DHS doesn't know Lemmy exists, do you? If they're monitoring Reddit, you'd have to be a fool to not realize that they're probably here, too.

This is how stupid the people in charge are. They're literally trying to arrest bots.

I'm sure that's a distinction the magastapo will appreciate as they beat you to death.