Before I left Reddit, I used a plugin through the api to replace all of my comments with random gibberish and then delete them. Part of this was because (mandatory) fuck spez. But more importantly, it was to protect the anonymity of my account. After years of posting, there is likely enough personal information shared to potentially connect my Reddit habits to my online identity. I wasn’t planning on using Reddit again in the future on that account, but I left it open in order to maintain some security control over the account. I’m not really sure what to do at this point because I still consider it a security vector that’s a bit concerning. There’s no way I can manually edit and delete all of my content with the snail’s-pace reddit UI, and I have no ability to assure that my content will remain unavailable or at least not publicly displayed.

  • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
    17·
    3 months ago

    My account was “permanently suspended” for “mod abuse” because I reported misinformation in r/conservative.

    • JigglySackles@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      3 months ago

      dude that sub is almost as easy to get banned from as pyongyang. they removed about snowflakes but are all half melted snowflakes themselves. absolute dumpster fire of amalgamated fragile masculinity. NEETs, incels, and racists only.

      • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        3 months ago

        That’s the thing, though: I’m not talking about being banned from the sub. My account was suspended site-wide because the snowflake mods reported me to the admins for “abusing the moderation system” (again: for reporting comments as misinformation because they actually were, in factual reality, misinformation), and the admins upheld that suspension even on appeal.

        Reddit’s admins actively support spreading fascist misinformation

    • ngwoo@lemmy.worldEnglish
      51·
      3 months ago

      I pissed off a power mod and got banned from a handful of subreddits and accidentally posted on one of them with an alt. Both accounts permabanned for ban evasion - even though one of those subreddits was one I only ever posted on with one account. Alts get nuked as soon as I make a single post anywhere, too.

      Could get around it with a new email and IP but meh

        • ngwoo@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          3 months ago

          They use machine learning to detect ban evasion. It takes into account email/phone used to sign up, IP, device fingerprinting, and behaviour on the site.