I’m 100% certain Reddit also fully cooperating with them. They run CBP recruitment ads. Fuck them, fascist collaborators
yeah Reddit has gone to shit now. That’s why I am here
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.
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.
Lemmy now has its own echo chambers and control freak mods too though.
If it gets too bad, just move on to the next thing.
Internet forums have been a thing since for decades, and they will continue long after Reddit and Lemmy are forgotten
reddit has always had those issues and by today’s standard that’s the least of their concern.
So if you do something like call for a protest you’ll need to use a foreign VPN and a burner account.
So
ifyoudo something like call for a protest you’llneedto usea foreign VPN and a burner account.
this kinda makes me want to make a new reddit account. flaming-icefqr69
I would not recommend that lol
I agree with you
Reddit has been leaking information to the feds for ages. They had a warrant canary that is no more, it has ceased to be, and bereft of life, it rests in peace since 2015: https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/bye-bye-birdie-reddits-warrant-canary-disappears
It has been a while since spez sold himself out completely. Leaking user information to special interests is part of the silent agreement that has kept them from being under investigation, but it also has gotten him invited to the sort of Epstein gatherings that other Silicon Valley tech bros have gotten invited to.
It’s not dead, it’s just pining for the fjords.
It’s a good thing I got permanently banned from Reddit just for saying “gill o’ teen”. Like this is America, it’s free speech.
I got banned for updooting comments about Luigi…
(Free Luigi!)
Free Luigi! Reddit is crap now
I got banned for racism … for making fun of a non-existent race. And the whole point of my comment was to mock racism itself.
Like the clorophors, dirty money grubbing clorophors. Tried to clorph me right out of my money … blew those little bastards up is what I did.
Banned as well, but I said we should all be able to punch Nazis. If you’re sitting at a table of 9 Nazis, you’re the 10th.
I got banned for saying we should cyberbully Elon Musk to suicide.
old dependable gil. Say what you want about the irish but he is one of the best.
Free speech means you don’t need to pay anything to speak. Not that you are free to say anything.
-Some US ceo
Who?
Free speech!
[with purchase of regular-priced speech]
Free speech, unless you say something they don’t like 😂
Homeland security if you are reading this shame on you! you are working for a pedophile!
I’m a citizen so they can fuck off
I’m not, but I also don’t live there
So they can still fuck off.
Also I have free healthcare and consumer protection laws
They’re franchising ICE, so tread carefully.
Nice nickname there.
I’m jealous
Is that why reddit was IP blocking people from seeing content even though they weren’t logged in
?Are you using a VPN?
Does reddit block VPNs?
yes, they aren’t as effective as kroger.com or usps.com, though. You can occasionally find unblocked vpn servers w/reddit
Nope.
Huh, weird. Maybe you’re just cursed. You didn’t happen to buy an amulet gypsy woman?
That happened to me as well but it worked in incog windows for some reason
Also not incognito.
Reddit should bring back Ghislaine Maxwell as a mod
I knew she was a user, never knew she was a mod.
Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.
Got permabanned for up voting a post about ice having their secret identities found out as it was ‘inciting violence’. Because law enforcement should be protected from public backlash as the piss on the Constitution and practice illegal acts on people, it seems to reddit mods.
Wtf you can be banned for upvoting?
Yup, Reddit has gone full mask off in the past year now. Spez is a known nazi simp.
Notorious terrorist, Budget Chicken.
I’m certain the Reddit management allowed the tracking.
If they get subpoenaed they have no choice.
Of course, any time your information is on a privatized network you might as well just assume it’s for sale.
Although, do be mindful that the same applies to open protocols like activitypub too
100% correct!
i’m certain ghislaine is reddit management so…
I used reddit for over a decade, but I was never willing to buy reddit gold or support it because I didn’t trust any site where I shared my political opinions to have those opinions tied with by real name or any other billing info. Same with discord. At least with lemmy, you can support it without tying it to your account.
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.
I’ve always isolated my username from irl stuff and I don’t make any social media posts from my irl stuff. You’d have to be very interested in me specifically and I’ve always tried to be slightly less noisy then the background noise.
Yeah, but the website owners have access to a lot more information than is just available publicly. You probably could be identified by a fed if reddit gave them that information.
You might not be worth the effort, especially since most other people would probably be less effort to track down. But that doesn’t mean it isn’t possible.
Also, other sites on the Net can collate links posted to reddit and the users and times that they were posted with users accessing pages on their own site. For example, if you’ve posted a sufficient number of youtube links, youtube can possibly link your reddit account and youtube account, say, as belonging to the same person. Just about any popular site can link your reddit account with your IP address. And your facebook account with your IP address. Etc. And thereby link reddit accounts with facebook accounts in cases with long-lived IP addresses. If X is a scrapable site on which users with fixed pseudonyms can submit links and Y is a site popular enough and has enough content, then Y can collate user accounts on X with IP addresses. This is not to say anyone is doing this. There are not many sites that meet the criteria to be a Y. I would say it includes mainstream news sites. The authorities could compromise some of the Ys or create their own through astroturf and thereby link users on the Xs with IP addresses and then with location.
These days, this might be a bit harder because reddit closed up when the AI companies started scraping. I don’t know the situation with Facebook with regard to scraping. If it’s scrapable, they’ve got your name linked to your reddit account.
What I’ve said about reddit equally applies to lemmy, even more so because lemmy is open by principle.
especially since most other people would probably be less effort to track down.
ding ding ding
I have politically active friends who are supposedly privacy minded blasting their takes on facebook and complaining when they get banned for inciting violence. Most people are terrible at this and the algos the feds use probably aren’t that great. I’m more likely to get grabbed randomly.
