I silenced myself on reddit a few years back
this post was submitted on 15 Apr 2025
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I did. I was pretty active on NoStupidQuestions there. I called another user a fascist sanewasher because he was claiming Musk's Nazi Salute at the inauguration was perfectly normal and something every politician does all the time. Within 15 minutes of me posting my comment I got a 7 day ban from the sub. Less than a day later I got perma-banned from Reddit completely. I hadn't even commented or posted anything between getting the 7 day ban and the perm-ban.
I also had an alt account which I hadn't used in a few years. I logged into that and found it was also permbanned, referencing my other account.
A couple of weeks later I got a new laptop (unrelated). I downloaded a new browser I'd never used on any device before (Brave), turned on my VPN and created a new Reddit account using a burner email address. Within a day, before I even posted or commented anything, the new account got permabanned and they referenced my other account. I don't know how they knew it was me. It was a device that had never logged into my old accounts, in a browser that advertises itself as secure and that I had never used before, on a VPN so they weren't matching my IP address. I'm clearly permanently banned, though.
Anyone knows how that fingerprinting might have worked here? Unless you used a very specific combination of browser extensions, I can't get my head around how it could track you... Or do they maybe use external services like Google Analytics to identify users? But even that would require that you logged in somewhere else before with that same browser.
I, too, would very much like to know. Not so much to get a new Reddit account, but if Reddit is able to track me across devices, IP addresses, browsers, etc, then who knows who else is tracking us across all that.
Not all of reddit, but worldnews permabanned me for saying Biden was complicit in Palestinian genocide. I was not a frequent or controversial poster.
Worldnews here?
I got banned there too for saying not to worry about a potential Ukrainian terrorist wave in the EU, since most of them are at the front, dead or female.
On reddit I would have been banned for the latter, but I think here they got upset about the 'not to worry' part.
No I didn't get banned from all of Reddit, just r/worldnews
Your statement doesn't seem ban-worthy either. When people get sensitive about statements like that you have to wonder what their morality standards are.
Oh, I thought you meant lemmy.ml.
The morality is here is a combo of liberalism, social democratism, Marxist-Leninism, but most of all US-progressivism.
So jokes that could be interpreted to support otherwise are out of the question.
And no critique against US-progressivism is allowed, they're in a battle against US fascists.
I just got banned from reddit for suggesting the usage of cannons in a way not approved by the Atlanto-zionist west
during early FEbuarary, 5+accounts with 1-11years in between them were all sitewide banned, simply because of my accounts were temp ban it triggered a multi-account ban. finally my last acct was shadowbanned.
Used to be easy to create anonymous accounts; now there's all sorts of verification
yea alt accounts, if you were permabanned in a sub, your new account should avoid those subs, now they consider any account as a ban evasion, if your first one wasnt resolved in its ban.
I wouldn't say silenced, i don't really stand for anything, I'm just in it for the shitposts and easy feeling of company.
That said I have been permabanned arbitrarily 3 times.
Same here permanently banned for giving free advice