Finally in the truly permabanned club.
They have some type of ban detection. I use a VPN and bounce between logging into my different accounts.
Not for ban evasion but for doxxing, I don’t post personal info on my politics account, my hobby accounts are pretty open, etc.
I pissed off somebody and the sub reddit banned me. I go thru and filter that sub out of my accounts. Didnt think about other people using my wifi.
Buddy comes over and posts a single post in that sub. His account and ALL of my accounts are now permabanned.
The reason I know is they AI mod replied then deleted a post about ban evasion to him, so he knew the comment he made on what sub and we pieced it together.
The rest of the msgs I got from reddit made no sense as I didn’t post in the sub and until he mentioned the reply it all came together.
I would like to know how they are tracking me as I use a VPN. Kinda makes it useless if it doesn’t work as advertised. I put an appeal in, we know how thats going to go…
Updates to follow, not that I’m likely to stay on there. Maybe for my hobby subs.
Maybe your service has some sort of IP leak? Heard it could be a thing but I don’t know how to troubleshoot - still, maybe worth the mention. Also Reddit’s IP bans are so easy to spread it feels they’re doing a “plandemic”, like they’re intentionally trying to kill the site. They’re also trigger-happy for banning by a lot of other reasons, so impressed you didn’t get the hammer before.
But alas, here in the fediverse, even if some administration or moderation pulls a similar BS, at least you can easily find a new home. But usually admins and mods are chill from what I observe.
And if you must still follow Reddit posts, though now anonymously, maybe check @birb@rss-parrot.net, since subreddits and users have RSS natively through old.reddit.com. Microblogging (e.g. Mastodon) bot though.