Absolutely, but they’ll have to jump through a few hoops to get it, which in practice already makes a massive difference.

Upvoting/downvoting history is a goldmine in terms of both marketing and surveillance. Every user with over a year of organic activity is a goldmine. Maybe you’ve never ever posted a single controversial opinion online. But you might have upvoted someone else’s - BAM, on a list. Or rather, category I assume. Those innocuous clicks reveal a lot more about you than you think. That information WILL be used against you. If you’re lucky, only to try and sell you shit you don’t need. If unlucky…

I vaccilate between “Eh, world and my life were always a mess, we could do with a do-over” and “holy shit holy shit holy shit is that a nuke in the distance?”. Multiple times daily. Shit’s exhausting.

Number 1 priority: secure communications. Always assume that every single letter you send that isn’t end to end encrypted WILL be read by your adversary.

USA already reached “TIA”(total informational awareness) around 2013, cfr. Snowden leaks.

One can only assume that they have since gained the ability to decypher and map all communications sent over the clearnet bar none. Disregard this advice at your own peril.

I honestly don’t know, I haven’t had a Reddit account for nigh on 2 years. I only lurk there now and honestly I shouldn’t even do that. I’ve completely given up on all social media outside of the fediverse.

I think a shadowban used to be all or nothing, but now it’s possible on a sub by sub basis and possibly even temporarily.

Yup that’s shadowbanning for ya.

Honestly I don’t mind… as long as they stay there.

God dammit, and just as Google starts enforcing manifest 3. Maybe it’s time to stop doing this internet thing altogether. It had a pretty nice run but right now it’s just a propaganda and compliance tool…

Yup, that’s the one.

Damn I remember this post from when I was on 4chan still. OP did provide links and his story was 100% true. The girl wasn’t ugly, just kinda plain but almost every pic of her somehow exuded despair, and that was honestly offputting (except for the kind of creeps who get off on that I reckon).

Fuck Trump & Musk. If I was in any position to, I would kill them myself, and if you ever are, it’s your moral obligation to, as well.

I don’t really agree that it’s much easier to start on Reddit. Especially nowadays.

-Post from an IP that was once used by a banned account? Also banned (after first being shadowbanned)

-Try to post in any niche sub of your choosing after making an account? Forget it, wait three weeks and farm 3K karma first (which encourages shitposting and reposting, lowering quality)

-Deviate a fraction of an inch from whatever sub’s 500-page rulebook? Banned.

-Try to argue an unbanning? That’s a permanent mute.

-Post anything - and I do mean anything - in a “wrong” sub, get immediately permabanned by a slew of subs you didn’t even know existed.

-Some mod doesn’t agree with something you posted? Even if it was 5 years ago in a sub that has since been deleted? Banned and muted.

Reddit is an absolutely terrible experience for new posters. How they even manage to retain a tenth of them is beyond me. I encourage them to keep it up however, more traffic for Lemmy.