I only go on there nowadays for my city’s sub and r/nba. I logged on yesterday while I was on a vpn and found out today that my account as suspended due to “unusual activity”. I didn’t register an email when I created that account. Welp, bye bye to that account then.
When they IP banned me, I just turned off wifi on my phone and created a new account with a separate browser. But looking back reddit was never worth it. We’re all very addicted to this toxic form of crowd sourced moderated information. I’m not really convinced Lemmy is better on a design level, the upvote system is identical and doesn’t prevent echo chambers. I guess there’s autonomy with instances, so that’s nice…
that is an evasion technique for some of the of accounts(they use more sophisicated methods, like a services that manages multiple anti-detect, and mobile proxies, and also using cheap used android devices.
I prefer the Lemmy way of upvotes but no karma totals. reddit mods and admins spend a lot time keeping it an echo chamber. With Lemmy you may get many downvotes but who cares. As long as you don’t break the basic rules Lemmy doesn’t ban you for “wrong thinking”
reddit is too anal with the karma, upvoting, "too little karma, votes, makes you look like a bot, and you get comment removed, and your account is flagged for spamming(a mark is put on your account so you wouldnt know)