I already deleted my 15 year old account, all of my posts, and all of my comments. Fuck Reddit and their shitty policies.
this post was submitted on 01 Jul 2026
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Fuc reddit.. I just got banned for favoring Ukraine over Russia. Seriously. Some Russian dude posted a video saying that Russians should take pictures of all their air defense to show Ukraine it's still there and very strong. I said, "Ukraine would love for you to do that.". BANNED. So yeah, fuck reddit.
No mail yet, but I'll delete my account before i participate in that bs
Just received the e-mail myself... now I am here! Hopefully more users with migrate soon.
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Welcome, friend! 🤗
Indeed and to "celebrate" this I deleted the 5 accounts I had (was project related) still.
I already deleted my main years ago but those ones were just unused for 10 years. Good time to signal (if anybody cares checking through usage data) that I'm not supporting this.
Be prepared for rapid growth on lemmy. It will lead to growing pains. This has happened several times before and regularly happens on mastodon etc
Can confirm. Just prepared an account and selected my communities. Have spent too much time on reddit with half a mil karma if that matters, just proof of the time spend there, but I am not giving my ID to social media...
How can you walk away from that many internet points?
Haha, never cares tbh, just a proof of time invested, nothing else for me.
Yeah ID shouldn't be a requirement to write some bullshit online, like wtf doesn't anyone realize it's ridiculous
just saying this out loud is crazy ... i need to identify myself to read and write!
tl;dr: screw reddit. Good bye forever (again).
I had to go back to reddit about a year ago to promote local mutual aid organizations and protest groups. I had turned my "since 2008" account into nothing but over the top abuse aimed at u/spez and vulture capitalism during the RiF debacle. I made a new account and engaged a little bit. I commented now and then, because you have to have minimal amounts of activity to post on some of the local subreddits.
Two days ago, I got flagged by automoderator for mocking a conservative on r/politics. I apparently had like 8 hours to tell the mods I was sorry, but I had no idea I'd been flagged, because I hardly go on reddit so I didn't know. They gave me a three month ban and when I messaged them to be like "why was I banned?" because it didn't make sense to me... I hadn't done anything that objectionable, a mod very condescendingly told me "You had 8 hours to respond to the complaint, but didn't avail yourself of the opportunity. You may protest the ban in 3 months." I seriously messaged them back with "enjoy your enshittification train to corporate town."
For mocking a conservative on r/politics? Back when I read it, half of r/politics mocked conservatives. Most of reddit still does. Are they going to ban everybody?
Are they going to ban everybody?
Hopefully.
Come to Lemmy. We have kitties and cookies and stuff.
Here I am, not enough hands for all the cookies and kitties. Haven't used Reddit in months and perfectly happy without it. Still sharing my sadness about seeing "the old internet" slip further and further down that slope.
Funny. I always regarded Reddit and the other centralized platforms as the new internet, and lemmy rather as the old internet. I'm from the BBS days, and although that was not federated, to me the fediverse looks more like it than any commercial platform.
I've been predicting for while we're going to see two parallel Internets develop, the "new" net running on the old infrastructure that's basically run by the big guys and a new infrastructure modeled after the old internet that's decentralized. We've been seeing a bunch of different pieces from Fediverse to LoRa communication, Meshtastic, Matrix, increased hobbyist interest in old ways of connecting computers (even saw a guide on how to set up your own dial up ISP for fun), etc. I'm not sure exactly how all those pieces are going to come together, but a locked down internet is only going to increase demand for what was lost in its creation. And its already been trending this way for awhile.
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Something I never see anyone talk about, is how, with all the 'fingerprinting' and data collection/analysis these companies do, they already know whether you're 18 or not. I know this isn't actually about "protecting the children", but I'd still like to hear more discussion from the angle of: they already surveil us enough for this purpose.
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Reddit wants me to reset my password or my account is locked.
So. I’m locked.
But I don’t use it any more so not really bothered.
The thing that pisses me off is that, on paper I’m not against it. It’s the way they do it and collectively fuck over everyone else that irritates me. I’m not giving my ID out. Fuck off.
And PSA: Getting access to a VPN is ridiculously easy nowadays. I got around my Dads router restrictions when I was a teenager. VPNs are easier than that. You’re not doing anything to protect children. They’ll find a way.
fuck giving your GOVERNMENT ID to a private fucking company. Holy shit, is this 1984 or what?
Although I didn't use it often, I would use facebook, mostly to look at my special interests. Not really to chat with people or whatever. Anyway, when my country brought in ID for social media, I just haven't been back. I'm not giving my FUCKING GOVERNMENT ID TO A FUCKING PRIVATE SPYWARE COMPANY. Fucking hell.
Yeah. If it can't be safely done directly by an official public system, there shouldn't be age verification at all.
I would definitely feel much more comfortable if it was through the government directly but even then for some reason parents don’t want to accept they have to actually….parent, and monitor their children in this day and age. So they want the government/corpo to do it for them. It’s fucking pathetic.
Apple literally introduced a massive update to parental controls in iOS 27. It’s insanely easy and you have so much control. I plan on doing that with my own son. I’m not gonna give out my ID to these random ass websites because people wanna be lazy shitheads.
on paper I’m not against it
Perhaps you should be, since there doesn't seem to be a non-dystopian way to do age checks on the internet at a large scale (as in, for more than e.g. sites dedicated for porn, and other very narrow examples). See Cory Doctorow write about Age Verification of any kind: https://pluralistic.net/2025/08/14/bellovin/ Or look at this EU wallet writeup: https://gitlab.opencode.de/bmi/eudi-wallet/wallet-development-documentation-public/-/work_items/13
Spoiler alert, both British officials and EU officials are openly considering to slap an age restriction on VPN software, too. Would turn into a weird Catch-22, where you need a non-restricted VPN to download a non-restricted VPN, like in China right now.
Reddit blocks me if it detects a vpn
It often shadowbans for that, so you can still log in and read, but if you post, only YOU can see your post. Nobody else can see your post. It gives you the illusion that you posted.
One of the ways ppl knew if they were shadowbanned, was to open the post in a private window. But that will be harder now. The priate window won't be logged in, so you won't be able to look. And ofc if you log in, you'll see it, b/c that's what shadowban does. The only way will be to use an alt account to look.
The enshittification continues.
That's another reason to not post on reddit. Why bring contents to that platform?
It’ll be like Facebook. The inertia and the sense of everyone doing it will keep Reddit alive. Even though it’s estimated that 50-60% is bot activity.
why are people blaming reddit instead of EU ? (i dont like reddit either )
I live in the EU, this his honestly the first I've seen age verification on any platform.
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Oh, I absolutely am blaming the politicians behind this (and the lobby groups behind them). The only strictly wrong thing Reddit does is how it implements that law, i.e., using third-party age verification that happens to also use your data to profile you and that has been shown to be insecure (Further Reading links in my post).
There are many who think there's no sufficiently secure, risk-free way to do that verification.
See this write-up about the EU wallet: https://gitlab.opencode.de/bmi/eudi-wallet/wallet-development-documentation-public/-/work_items/13
Or Cory Doctorow on Age Verification of any kind: https://pluralistic.net/2025/08/14/bellovin/
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I just dropped reddit some time ago... Time consuming + annoying tracking from their side.
It's amazing you think you're immune to this 🤣 or think the admins are going to go to jail protecting identites.
The second any instance hits enough users to draw attention they'll crumble faster than a quarter miles top fuel dragster.
Yes, but at least here I can choose an instance in a privacy friendly jurisdiction or one that is small enough, including a self-hosted one. It's not a perfect shield, but federation helps a lot with digital independence (which is why it's prominent in pre-internet theories of how to make anarchy work without collapsing into warlordism).
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everybody needs to be on their best behavior for the next few weeks ok
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