Reddit has streaks now??
For a second, I thought OP got banned from Duolingo.
I mean back when duolingo has discussions or what they called it, you might write nasty stuff. But now, imagine being banned for the wrong translation.
I haven’t used duolingo for a few weeks because my hack to have infinite hearts broke again and I’m too lazy to put in the effort even tho it’s not that difficult actually
I’m gonna be real, Duolingo is literally only good for motivation and easy vocab review. It has been years since I used it, but the best advice I got on that website was when forums still existed and people told me that the translations for JP were shit and to learn somewhere else, which is probs why those forums got deleted.
If you have to use hacks to not be bored/deal with the bullshit, then just leave man. It’s not worth the bird begging you to come back. Find stuff online, YT (unfortunately) is your friend for resources.
I use Busuu for Fr*nch these days.
Try Busuu
Gamified social media with streaks and fomo notifications for daily scrolling or posting or whatever is hilariously bad and transparent.
but people fall for it, otherwise every social media wouldnt have it
Every? It was news to me that even reddit does this. I must have left them all too early.
I didnt know they had it either but I’m not surprised to find out. I know Snap started it, TikTok has it, I believe Instagram has it, and Reddit having it comes as no surprise to me
It seems I dodged so many bullets, I might be Neo.
Twitch also has them now for how many of someone’s consecutive streams you watch
I use TikTok and I didn’t know it had anything like that
Ive never used tiktok in my life, I only found out BC my brother was complaining he lost his streaks the other day and I was like “Youre still using snap?” and he was like “no wtf it’s tiktok”
The streak made me want to not log in days in a row because it highlighted how much time I had wasted on the site.
That’s it, we are taking away the awards system.
Jk, you can have it back.
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Yep, they want you to login everyday FOR MULTIPLE YEARS
Well, I did that on my own to be honest. Not anymore, though, lol.
Same, I’m glad to be out of the cesspool.
Wha… do you get some kind of reddit currency if you make a post that breaks 1000 upvotes, with a multiplier based on your log in streak length?
Jesus Christ, these fucking dark pattern, microtransaction shit just needs to be universally banned.
Even on old reddit they have these annoying and constant “achievement” notifications now.
I’m so glad I left completely (minus the random search result with no other leads, but no browsing) when the API fuckery started, corporate social media sounds like an absolute hellscape now.
I’m almost there, I had to block the reply button with ublock origin. Quite the habitual addiction.
Why not just nuke the accounts and be done with it
Honestly it’s two niche debate subs that kept me engaging that there’s no substitute for. I think with the reply button blocked I’ll be able to delete my account again soon. Yep I’ve relasped before.
…and I mainly used those subs to deprogram from my upbringing. That’s the real truth, I found it healing.
Fam if you need to use reddit don’t feel bad about it. “The trick is not to ignore the mainstream, but to selectively raid it for things we can use.” -M. Gunderloy
I hear you but again I’ve left out an important detail. Those debate boards have moderators who are mostly checked out since the API drama, so the influx of morons using ChatGPT to “think” for them without getting banned has become intolerable and incredibly depressing when considering the long term implications of that among youth.
The positive feelings are an afterglow.
Yeah honestly a social media streak getting bigger is a sign I should probably take a day off.
They have a “basement dweller” achievement if you hit two years.
Many many years and ass loads of karma…
But apparently LIKING posts can get you banned now. What a shit show.
Clearly they’re butthurt that you didn’t fellate Trump or Musk or some other such drain clog.
Reddit constantly pushing conservative to the front page was a sign
r/conservative is just a rebrand and refugee camp of r/thedonald , mildly adjusted to accept the new wave “conservatives” across the world, like Supporters of Fidesz (Hungary, Orban), RN (LePen, France), Canadian Maple MAGA, the Russian Mafia State and their blood drunk Nazi Z-Tards, and all of those Joe Rogan / Jordan Peterson / Ben Shapiro types.
Actual Conservatism is dead. its just Nazis and Fascists who hijacked the term for better brand imaging.
All the formerly sane conservatives refuse to acknowledge their party got taken over and died, DNC pushed trump thinking itd be an easy win and we have this now, I feel like ppl forget how much the Demcorat party is to blame
It’s all a ploy to control what we think.
Ideas are powerful, that’s why they don’t want us to have any of our own.
Lemmy. The support group for burned reddit veterans.
We were there. We put in thousands of hours of work. Years of moderating. Free work. Content creators. People who commented. Voted. All that karma …
All gone cause you upvoted an anti trump or musk post. Or maybe you upvoted a photo of a tessler burning.
Maybe you didn’t think Luigi should get the death penalty.
Don’t worry brother. Upvote what you want. Be free with the rest of us.
Check out https://lemmy.world/c/iselonmuskdeadyet
I wonder if the reason is because 50501 started on Reddit and they are determined to not let it happen again.
They bent the knee. Hard.
Hello everyone. You’re not alone. I got banned like for 4-5 times, using local Ukrainian words that may look like slurs, but they aren’t.
I got unbanned, but I am still too scared to write anything about politics on Reddit. I want a working account there for IT questions.
Make another account then. I have a shit posting account for making comments I know will be dicey. Reddit mods are fat slobs don’t let them stop you from living your dreams.
they will detect your alternate account through fingerprinting you
it’s where I am currently, unable to use any of my 100% wholesome and positively contributing accounts because I shared the opinion of “Oh no, anyways” on a burning Tesla dealership post, got banned from world news with no explanation, asked for elaboration and did not receive it, and then continued to post in that sub with another account.
did I ban evade? yes. did I first attempt to find out why I was banned? yes. was I ignored and thus continued to participate with other accounts, being careful to say nothing even close to provocative with those accounts? yes.
didn’t matter. they identified it as the same account, they banned it.
I’ve been treated the same way, lost about 7 accounts each over 12 years old because some mod didn’t like me telling off an incel and from there sent it to admins and from there it’s been repeated bans and shadowbans.
I am done with reddit, I’ve seen behind the curtain in my time there, I know how bad it really is. The whole platform is now an AI training-bed and in some communities more than half the users appear to be bots. Very clever, very well-disguised, but you can tell if you check their history. They want to be able to control large-scale narratives and it’s working.
But if anyone wants to try to keep fighting the bot army, you can create a new account by deleting all your reddit cookies and browsing history, resetting your modem for a minute, then making a new account with a new email. (Use Gmail or another name-brand on, they now shadowban accounts made from disposable emails.)
Also, do not use a VPN ever. Instant permanent shadowban, and you have to start all over.
From there you just need to establish some karma history so you can post. Memes and other content-grind subreddits let even new accounts last I checked.
If you don’t want your account banned immediately, do not make political opinions, do not argue with anyone, do not sass reddit even through they deserve far worse. Don’t reply to yourself or your alt accounts, they can now tell immediately. Do not report anyone, they now will use reporting as an excuse to ban you if they decide they don’t like you.
This is too much effort. I’ll wait and see if the Digg reboot is worth using.
At this point, I think the better alternative is to just say NO! to content aggregators and like… take walks instead.
Seriously, I changed my daily hour-long lunch break from browsing the internet to walking outside and it’s done so much good, and I miss being connected to the world less and less. I am using all the sites less, even Lemmy and Youtube get less enjoyable when you get your brain focused on other goals.
That one looks fun too, hopefully they can end the monopoly Reddit has
I just found out about this too, but on Samsung phones you can install an app on the “secure folder” and that’s basically another device ID so even if you install the app there it doesn’t ban you.
Recently changed my phone, and while my new phone is completely reddit free, I tried this “secure folder” thing on my old phone(installed the official app via apk but patched to remove ads) that already was banned with a completely new account and so far it’s working well, I’ve left a few comments and such and haven’t been shadowbanned.
Now I’ll probably won’t post or do much on it anyways, I’m committing to use it less and less, but I can’t really confidently say that Lemmy fills out all communities as Reddit does
That’s good to know, if I ever really, really need to throw shade at some comment I see on Reddit i’ll give that a shot… but honestly, I’m also mostly clean and free from “using” and probably will avoid it so I don’t backslide into that fetid mess. I find I don’t miss it that much anymore and have become a LOT more productive without having those comment sections to scroll every day and every lunch break.
Yeah me too. Honestly I like knowing that I CAN use it if needed, specially if there’s an obscure IT question I might need help with. But having it on a whole other phone let’s me not want to use it because it would mean having a whole other device to take care of battery and ughh you lost me there , so that’s my compromise, I keep it on my desk turned off until needed
Honestly I like knowing that I CAN use it if needed
I love how reddit’s social section is now regarded the same way as a product like condoms or guns or narcan.
How do you patch to remove ads?
Get the apk from apk mirror and then patch it using ReVanced manager
I recognize this as English.
I’ll have to look into everything you said here. I may be old, but I’m always game to learn new tricks. Thanks.
Use a different email and a different browser. Turn off IP tracking in settings. You may even need to use a VPN.
My solution is to browse subreddits without signing in so whenever I go to up vote or down vote anything I can’t and think, “oh right,” then go back to Lemmy (which is quickly becoming a higher quality experience anyways).
Reddit mods are fat slobs who can be easily duped, but Reddit algorithims will autoban you for making new accounts.
I’m basically exiled from it until I decide to get a new device and sign in on a new network other than my home or my work.
Luckily, I’ve never had issues with reddit mods, but I received a f*ck ton of global bans on r/reddit_ukr (getting carpet bombed by russian bots and the half of the comments are [deleted])
It’s the time to discover the fediverse ig. Btw any ideas where I can dump a ton of random IT memes?
I guess my advice wasn’t anygood, hardware bans and ip can go in effect if you get banned. I love Lemmy, but this community is still a young, subs for a lot of niche hobbies and shit posting dont really exist…yet.
I use voyager and kept scrolling through the reconmended sub’s list until I found something I was looking for. The search feature is hit or miss, I didnt find anything for IT memes.
I haven’t really checked this site out in a long time, but I found it helpful in the past: https://lemmyverse.net/communities
I think it’s something like i7t12 ie /c/iiiiiiitttttttttttt but it could be just something that looks like that
There’s a shitpost area.
they keep banning any other accounts I made there over being linked with the first one. I have tried unique email addresses and everything but they still figure it out within 24 hours, even when I 'm not allowed to post anything. So I just dont use reddit at all anymore.
you probably need to use a new device and on a network you havent frequently used. Unique email addresses dont mean anything if you’re logging in with the same browser with the same cookies and “digital footprint”
Burn all your tracking cookies associated with reddit, kill all your browsing history, then reset your router for a minute, then use a fresh e-mail and not a disposable one to register a new account. Using a VPN will also get you insta-flagged.
Keep in mind most subs will not let you comment or post without a karma history, find some large meme subs that let new accounts post and just say bland shit for a day.
I got banned for pointing out that ICE are a human trafficking terrorist gang
If you ever wonder why nobody calls it terrorism when America does it, it is because people are not allowed to do so.
They ban facts now? Wow what a dump, I hope everyone that works there is time-teleported into an Auschwitz shower in 1944.
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Can we talk about how screwed up that streak notification is? Let’s encourage people who show signs of unhealthy usage of the platform to further their addiction?
You have a 300 day streak of using heroin, don’t stop now!
people who show signs of unhealthy usage of the platform
Hey! (You’re absolutely right)
But my streak is at 419, I can’t stop now!
Daily usage streaks isn’t a “screwed up” notification.
Plenty of people read a newspaper everyday. Or check socials each day.
A more accurate measure for unhealthy, addictive usage would be hours per day, or week.
Reddit banned all the people that made it fun, now the only people left are the boring ones and bots lol
And porn
Even that is getting culled. Reddit recently nuked r/nsfw which is like the OG porn subreddit. Apparently the Reddit execs learned nothing from the demise of Tumblr.
and not any of the fun porn like the stuff made out of bad taxidermy
Won’t be long before it becomes the next 9gag
So is Lemmy the dumping ground for people getting banned on reddit now?
Absolutely. I lost my 15 year account for using the phrase ‘burn it all down’ entirely metaphorically. They really, really didn’t like Canadians pushing back. Fuck those guys.
I hope Reddit dies in a fire, and not a metaphorical one. One with the ownership group literally aflame. And I’d like to roast marshmallows over that fire.
Honestly that’s how I got here lol.
Tried it out when the API changes were announced, but let’s be real, Lemmy doesn’t have as much content or user interaction.
It’s allowed me to stop doom scrolling as much, but I do miss some niche communities
You get used to it. Been here happily for coming on two years. Honestly, less content means I can’t scroll 24/7 which has turned into a positive for me.
Fewer niche communities definitely sucks though. Time to start one I guess? :P
Less dumping ground and more release valve. The people Reddit is jettisoning are many of their more active and prodigious content creators and contributors. The site admins simply don’t want new human content anymore. They want passive observers who will consume advertisement content without creating drama.
What they’ll end up with is bots watching Russian trolls.
Yes it’s how I got here, and hopefully Lemmy doesn’t turn to shit the way reddit did because of its decentralized nature I hope
Yep, that is why I am here
I think it’s more like getting used to the freedoms of Lemmy increases the likelihood of popping up on the radar of some dubious Reddit admins.
Odd since it’s arguably just as easy to make a new reddit account
That would assume you dont have a grudge against the site for banning you.
New to Lemmy and this is me to a T. Reddit just banned my 11+ year old account for expressing my anger at the continued fascist attacks on my country (Canada). So fuck em, I’m not going to bend over backwards trying to make an alt account they won’t flag, I’ll be sad for the Reddit of bygone days but it’s gone now, the new one is rotten to the core.
But why would I want to make a new account on Reddit after getting banned for saying things that people need to hear?
If Reddit wants some passive bullshit audience that can’t talk back, and that swallows bullshit posting, I’m good elsewhere.
It’s the next best thing. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I’ve had my reddit account for 17 years and I received my first warning for inciting violence because I commented “this makes me want to make a whip and go to town on these people” (a reference to Jesus running out the money changers in the temple) on a video of a megachurch service showing a woman painting trump bowing to a cross.
Yep that’s why I’m here. They banned my 12 year account for sympathizing with Luigi.
Reddit simply doesn’t want an active user base. They want passive viewers ingesting AI generated content. Much better for advertising revenue that way.
You can’t even play Nintendo these days
We’re Gooigi gang here. So watch yourself.
Exactly like my account except 30ish days ago. Welcome to Lemmy! If you’re reading this comment the ban bots haven’t taken over:
Luigi Mangione Innocent Death Elon Musk Trump
Reddit bans you again in absentia
Well fuc
Reddit created an account on your behalf and banned you again for this
And nothing of value was lost
My reddit account got a strike by an admin for describing the risks involved in traveling to the USA currently (abduction, torture for an undetermined amount of time). The appeal I made to that was accepted but it left a sour taste in my mouth.
Lucky you, you got handled by a moderator who wasn’t a raging Trump whore.
I got permabanned after a week long ban for “threatening violence” when I suggested that if a Trump was elected (it was in Oct24) started directley Aiding Russia in their invasion of Europe, that they’d probably end up with a dead president. I appealed and suggested that I wasn’t threatening anyone, and that whoever banned me, was politically biased and triggered. and they flipped out and perma’d me.
That’s pretty lenient, most people get permabans
Someone should start Blueit. See cuz they blew it, get it?
I canceled my reddit pro, or reddit+ account, whatever the f*ck it is called, and the ads, the ads… Ads that look like posts, or comments. It’s almost making me 100% Lemmy too.
I kinda miss the ads with comments enabled but not to the point where I’d consider going back 😅
