Homeland Security Spying on Reddit Users: Leak show feds tracking anti-ICE Reddit users like "Budget-Chicken-2425"
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They can gauge this: Fuck ICE.
Is Homeland Security chasing bots? Because that’s the bottiest name I’ve ever seen. If so, please continue. 🍿
I find it odd, but a lot of newer users on Reddit go with the default suggested username and those follow the
word-word-0000template.At the same time, it might be better for privacy to do that since it's less likely that someone can track you across platforms if you use the generator built into each platform.
Fair enough. Maybe I’m too old for the internet.
Maybe the internet truly is... No Country for Old Men...
I see it a lot, too. Reddit's been around for 20 years, so all the good usernames are already taken.
Its been a long time since you could build relationships with other users in places like Reddit. The usernames don't matter anymore so you may as well just use randoms. Your just going to get banned and make a new one anyways.
it has been flooded with bots since '16, when russia got involved with reddit through propaganda. so people are quite suspicious around other users, accusing them bots.
I think the current flow for Reddit account creation is they give you the auto generated username and you have to change it when you're done creating the account. You don't get to set it during creation. So because it's an extra step I think some people don't. (Though I may be misremembering. It's been years since I used it.)
thats how they mass-create bot accounts, just create a large number without carefully making one that reddit wont immediately ban you on.
Hey, wait a minute...
I did that with my new user. It’s easier to use an account for a year or two and burn it. I don’t care about the fake points. And I am not doing anything wrong. But if tou give a lot of oppinions it’s a lot of data for social engineering, so for privacy reason it’s a good practice to not be attached to any account.
yes, and PALINTIR is active on reddit using propaganda bots, along side the russian and MOSSAD ones.
I don't disbelieve it, do you recall where you read that?
I had a similar names. I didn't care about "expressing myself" and didn't want you link it to myself in any way, so every time I would just accept the random gibberish reddit suggests when creating a new account.
Like my current RailcarXxxx username. It was just suggested I think when creating my first Lemmy, and just reused it through instances
Yeah now I'm kind of worried about my pseudonym. This isn't my first pseudonym mind you, and it won't be the last, but this is the most "well known" around my internet friends.
Reddit suggested usernames are always dumb shit like that.
Fascists are the weakest and most brittle snowflakes.
So, it should be easy to break them, right.
All Americans would have to do is organize themselves and end this increasing dystopia.
Reddit is State Department agitprop. This leak is probably a tiny fraction of their operations on reddit.
It's crazy how successful that platform is because nobody suspects it. Redditors all hate the other social media platforms. They cannot fathom that reddit is just as bad or worse.
But why is that. Is it the illusion of control. Because ostensibly its a user curated site. Because they think they have voting power. All of these things have proven to be completely false time and again. Yet the illusion of reddit persists.
While I agree that Reddit is awash in (multiple) state propaganda, and that posting violent rhetoric, or even sympathy for it, there is likely to put you on a list (or multiple), I don't think Reddit users really trust it's that safe. In the last year and a half, since Luigi, there has been huge amounts of bitterness over the censorship of content and strict banning policies. People have discussed, and followed through on, leaving in droves. Huge amounts of old content are no longer available because people scrubbed their post history on the way out.
If the current discourse doesn't reflect that, I would suggest it's because :
It's an addiction just like any other social media site, being cut off from the supplier is one of a few ways to end addiction, so I've appreciated their ban-happiness lately (for myself included).
The user interaction metrics they've added have been interesting tho. Millions of south and SE Asians are flocking to reddit.
It's been wild to watch how the site has grown over the past 15 years for me. Back durning trump's first term I deleted my account and alts due to paranoia. I'm starting to think I should do the same for newer accounts or abandon the site entirely; hense my presence here.
I heard murmurs about Lemmy when the API shit was going down a few years ago but it was so small back then the switch didn't really make sense for me. Now that the paranoia is back I don't feel as comfortable/safe commenting on reddit anymore
Between reddit's control freak mods, their selective enforcement of rules, their lack of mod behavior restrictions, ads made to look like postings, etc you have very little freedom outside of porn surprisingly. You have to stick to the groupthink in subs or get banned which makes most comments predictable, agreeable and milktoast.
What other examples of bullshit can you give us?
It's kind of well-known and a long-running meme at this point that Redditors have a superiority complex about other platforms and think only theirs is the most "intelligent" and "rational" platform. It dates back to when it was mostly controlled by right-libertarian fedora-wearing raging atheist types.
Did you just log on to the Internet for the first time yesterday?
Those were the good ol days. Now it's controlled by maga. It's getting closer to twitter every day, soon it will just be another republican propaganda site
What the fuck are you people on about? Have you been on reddit? Go look at r/all right now, or any other time. You have to go to r/conservative to find magats, and even there you'll find skeptical sentiments.
I used reddit long before the /r/thedonald showed up. Before /r/atheism became a default sub, which was terrible for the community of that sub. It became meme infested and caused /r/trueatheism to be made for sharing stories about religion intolerance from politicians, educators and employers. At a certain point, I started wholesale blocking any major sub and power user to reclaim some usability, but the API change signaled to me it wasn't worth the effort anymore.
My reddit account is almost 18 years old so I know that you're talking about. I came to lemmy at the time of the API change as well, but I stayed on reddit too. I'm not giving them any revenue: I use old.reddit and RES, so I don't see and ads.
But blocking subs, as much as I also did that until I hit the limit of 100 blocked subs, is the wrong approach. Instead, you sub to the ones you like and avoid /r/all.
I was perma banned for saying "fuck all republicans". They don't want maga to be tied to the republican party for when trump is gone
Edit: this was when trump 'won' the second time and everyone was shouting "fuck maga".
And that experience tainted your view of reddit. Don't get me wrong, there's plenty of reasons not to like reddit as a company, but the community is not the company. It's up to you to make your own experience good or bad there, same as in lemmy.
i used to use reddit from 2014 to 2024 and its gotten far more rightwing. The sheer amount of accepted racism and openly right wing stances on reddit these days is shocking to me. That kind of stuff would get you insta banned or downvoted into oblivion. Reddit culture has completely 180'd and it has no remnants of its former self.
I don't know where you're seeing that. Unless you go looking for it in right-wing subs, the vast majority of reddit is very clearly to the left and any right wing comments are immediately downvoted to hell.
Have you ever heard a twitter user talk about reddit? They all hate each other.
People in this thread are perfect examples of that. They hate reddit so much they have to talk shit about it, regardless of reality.
A lot of lemmy users are ex reddit users and have reason they switched. I switched because it started looking more and more like twitter.
Yes, that's probably it. You and others had some bad experience there and fled reddit, and now your opinions are based on that bad experience instead of reality. I'm on both. I'm both lemmy and reddit you create your own experience. If you failed to do that, I'm not surprised you didn't like it.
The fuck does this mean? How is my experience not reality? What else are my opinions suppose to be based on, if not my experience?
Reddit was showing signs of introducing a more algo based experience, so I fucked off. They would hardly be the first website I left because of shit like that.
As long as you recognize it's a meme and not reality, I'll forgive that ridiculous generalization.
Learned from growing up in a communist dictatorship: don't discuss politics and religion with strangers. And even with friends or acquaintances, don't discuss it in writing. It doesn't mean you can't have strong opinions, but don't make them public. Talking (not writing) one-to-one or in small groups eventually toppled almost all communist dictatotships, so there's absolutely no need to broadcast your opinions, unless your goal is to be martyred.
Communists were nice.
Well, there is no such thing as communism with a dictator. It's simply two opposites.
Communism is without a state. Meaning no true communist country have ever existed in modern time.
Please don't argue theory definitions with someone who lived through the reality, its just straight insensitive
I got shocked the other day stepping on live wires.. I now have a degree in Electrical Engineering. (Actually Not: My experience is not the same as expertise)
they didn't say they were wrong, just an asshole.
it's like someone died to a live wire and you correct their family that it was the amps not the voltage that killed them. you're not wrong, but you're a tone deaf dickhead.
While I agree, there's also a risk in letting the hypothetical family cause alarm about something false around electricity or whatever (misinformation).
They are arguing the definitions with someone who was "arguing" with someone who lived through the reality
I used reddit for over a decade, but I was never willing to buy reddit gold or support it because I didn't trust any site where I shared my political opinions to have those opinions tied with by real name or any other billing info. Same with discord. At least with lemmy, you can support it without tying it to your account.
I tend to think that -- for myself for sure but probably most other people -- after a decade plus on Reddit, you've likely said and posted enough stuff that somebody could follow the breadcrumbs back to you. Theyd have to really want to and it would take a lot of reading your posts, but it could probably be done. Anonymity doesn't exist without a vpn, and even then you're probably still identifiable. Don't say, post or do anything on the internet that youre not willing to defend/pay for in real life.
I've always isolated my username from irl stuff and I don't make any social media posts from my irl stuff. You'd have to be very interested in me specifically and I've always tried to be slightly less noisy then the background noise.
Yeah, but the website owners have access to a lot more information than is just available publicly. You probably could be identified by a fed if reddit gave them that information.
You might not be worth the effort, especially since most other people would probably be less effort to track down. But that doesn't mean it isn't possible.
ding ding ding
I have politically active friends who are supposedly privacy minded blasting their takes on facebook and complaining when they get banned for inciting violence. Most people are terrible at this and the algos the feds use probably aren't that great. I'm more likely to get grabbed randomly.
Also, other sites on the Net can collate links posted to reddit and the users and times that they were posted with users accessing pages on their own site. For example, if you've posted a sufficient number of youtube links, youtube can possibly link your reddit account and youtube account, say, as belonging to the same person. Just about any popular site can link your reddit account with your IP address. And your facebook account with your IP address. Etc. And thereby link reddit accounts with facebook accounts in cases with long-lived IP addresses. If X is a scrapable site on which users with fixed pseudonyms can submit links and Y is a site popular enough and has enough content, then Y can collate user accounts on X with IP addresses. This is not to say anyone is doing this. There are not many sites that meet the criteria to be a Y. I would say it includes mainstream news sites. The authorities could compromise some of the Ys or create their own through astroturf and thereby link users on the Xs with IP addresses and then with location.
These days, this might be a bit harder because reddit closed up when the AI companies started scraping. I don't know the situation with Facebook with regard to scraping. If it's scrapable, they've got your name linked to your reddit account.
What I've said about reddit equally applies to lemmy, even more so because lemmy is open by principle.
Budget-Chicken-2425, waking up one day to find out the entire world is reading your FBI domestic terrorist dossier:
That's enough to radicalize a chicken.
Looks like his account is suspended now.
Ha, homeland security is back to it's old tricks. Probably not just them now, but they were submitting lists of users and social media was finding other pretexts to violate/ban them. I'm pretty sure some of my previous accounts were on those lists.
As always, they got the support to do it by stressing these rw accounts denying vaccinations and elections and the like, and then the fascists in homeland security predictably went after the left with it primarily. Often going after things like parody accounts, allowed under the rules, for making fun of political leaders. It's all dishonest. As per reporting in The Intercept at the time. The leak of information covered like twitter and FB and I forget, but I've no doubt it extends to other platforms, and other units than the one we learned about in homeland security, that is just the tip of the iceberg we can see above the reflection of that ocean of social media.
I am saying an agency gave lists of users to violate that included his, and that reddit found excuses to violate them, likely for unrelated reasons that are not even against the rules, they don't have to try, so they don't try, to enforce rules fairly. Which is why we need the fediverse to be constructed better to reach critical mass. We need clear rules and enforcements with appeals that end in jury trials of users for actions.
https://youtube.com/shorts/h9DRcWStaC4
"Some very rich old white men are exerting their power to suppress our own people, thus creating a feeling of civil war in the streets."
Got permabanned for up voting a post about ice having their secret identities found out as it was 'inciting violence'. Because law enforcement should be protected from public backlash as the piss on the Constitution and practice illegal acts on people, it seems to reddit mods.
Wtf you can be banned for upvoting?
Yup, Reddit has gone full mask off in the past year now. Spez is a known nazi simp.
I got permabanned for comparing israel to the Nazis. Fuck Reddit.
I'm certain the Reddit management allowed the tracking.
Of course, any time your information is on a privatized network you might as well just assume it's for sale.
100% correct!
i'm certain ghislaine is reddit management so...
If they get subpoenaed they have no choice.
Reddit has been leaking information to the feds for ages. They had a warrant canary that is no more, it has ceased to be, and bereft of life, it rests in peace since 2015: https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/bye-bye-birdie-reddits-warrant-canary-disappears
It has been a while since spez sold himself out completely. Leaking user information to special interests is part of the silent agreement that has kept them from being under investigation, but it also has gotten him invited to the sort of Epstein gatherings that other Silicon Valley tech bros have gotten invited to.
It's not dead, it's just pining for the fjords.
Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.
I'm 100% certain Reddit also fully cooperating with them. They run CBP recruitment ads. Fuck them, fascist collaborators
they have palintir bots which they know about but wont do anything, plus russian propaganda is almost rarely get cleaned out when they do actual purges, which targets real users instead. they also now have israeli mods/bots to gatekeep criticism against israel. all the purges have target the lowest hanging fruits, irl users, than OF/link spamming the ones that are cutting into thier profits somehow.
To summarise: it's all just bots nowadays. Reddit is complete junk now.
exactly! It's as if the website is used to train bots. You can immediately tell if when you see the posts, yet they ban humans.
The first four years or so that I was on Reddit, I never once received a ban for anything. Since Trump was elected, I pretty much got temp bans every couple of months. Every one was from me being mean to obvious Russian trolls. And then this morning, I got permanently banned for a comment I made over a week ago, that according to Reddits own metrics, received a grand total of zero views. I called a fascist a, um, fascist, and that he wasn’t just licking boots, he was deep throating them. That was a step too far, according to Reddit. And now I’m here.
You know, looking back getting banned for saying "fuck trump and Obama" was a blessing in disguise. I still miss my cheap knockoff watch sub though :(
All my email addresses are perma-banned for replying to right wingers. I had death threats, people questioning my sanity and calling me slurs. When I tried to respond with even an iota of the same energy - banned. On Reddit, the right wing is king.
Yup. Despite all their virtue signaling, they give miles more leeway to chuds. Funny enough, despite my decade plus on there arguing with right winged idiots, I never got a "KYS" message. But only two months on here some hexbear bitch popped my cherry because I had the audacity to claim Hasan Piker did in fact shock his dog for the crime of wanting to move out of frame.
This is my second attempt at re-joining Lemmy after experiencing the same brother.
It sucks having to moderate yourself online so hard when you're passionate, genuinely care and want to share the uncomfortable truths of the world, but the consequence of a 24/7 deluge of negativity when you have a life to live is just not worth it hey.
I've been a bit of a hermit online and offline since the pandemic, 2026 is my year to try to strategically begin getting back out there!
I believe in you homie. But sadly this is my form of social interaction cause I work hardware security in secure facilities, which means I vastly work alone. Well this and Uber, but the people getting Uber in my state, are usually not people I see eye to eye with politically. So I usually just talk food, or about my kitty Furryosa.
Well for your sake I hope you find some choice places you can enjoy and be yourself online <3
If you're into sharing pics of Furryosa, Pixelfed could be a good one to check out.
Thanks homie!
The chuds stir the shit and create clicks for cash.
kys message?
You know there are worse things for a dog than a shock collar, getting killed in traffic, or shot by the neighbors, or hurting a neighbor's dog, being amongst them. They learn pretty soon with the shock there are audio warnings so they aren't getting shocked all the time.
My sibling in baphomet, watch the video. I'll break it down for ya actually.
Dog moves, Hasan's hand goes out of frame, the dog immediately yelps, and his immediate reaction is not of compassion and wondering why his dog just hollered in pain! It was him immediately insulting her!
I'm a big animal lover. And I think you are wrong!
Edit to add: I also think you're a bad person.
Edit edit: I'm happy I pissed off some of you animal abuse supporters.
No you arent, hella dogs in your area getting put down right now at kill shelters, go save them all
"If you don't save every dog, you aren't a dog lover."
This is an insane take. By that local, someone doesn't love anything unless they are using all their time and energy on that one thing. Which is called obsession.
I have saved and retrained dogs in my time at the ASPCA in Orlando, where I was a kennel coach.
Now what amount of energy have you put into being a positive influence in the world?
I'm sikh, I do seva a few times a year, but thats mostly feeding and helping lame ass humans not gods gift dogs
I hope yall didn't put down any dogs, aspca is one of the wrost culprits for claiming not to put them down but doing it anyways, I heard so many negative things from my friends who were fostering in college, and reddit is filled with ppl talking about how they kill dogs when they claim not to.
Or complain about the high profile dog of celebrity who mena so much to you and you have so much energy for
I don't know anything about this person or this situation, but you've never had a dog die from traffic clearly. Hold your dying dog in your arms and then tell me how wrong the shock collar is that would've saved them from that fate.
You are dangerously [redacted.]
If only there was some way to prevent dogs from running into traffic other than delivering 12,000 volts to its neck
Go away troll.
Just want to let you know. Since you're pro animal abuse, I'm not reading anything you type. But the "[redacted]" ending caught my eye, and lets me know you are in fact a frightened [insulting word].
You let your emotions be tooled by the worst people in the world, in defiance of reason, as such I'm not reading this drivel.
There are worse things for a human than getting castrated, so come here a second and drop your pants.
This is some real talk! Like I'm a big supporter of gender affirming care and bathroom rights, but I'm two standard deviations to the right of the bell curve in terms of largeness and I got the super test gene.
I would happily give up a non insignificant amount of height, and donate ALL my test, if it meant I could have my younger back again.
Your gender doesn't start or end at your genitalia.
Edit: other than crotch homie, I would like some to explain to me why this statement is incorrect.
Your thoughts on gender are irrelevant to this conversation. "There are worse things" isn't an excuse to harm a sentient creature. There's worse things than being stabbed in the eye. Are you volunteering to be stabbed in the eye?
Who said"there are worse things"?
I said, fairly specifically, that I would gladly be more feminine.
"Do I have a penis or vagina?" - the great philosophical question of our time
It doesn't matter what you got, it's what you want.
What logic is this when all pets are netured and spayed lol and thats considered good
Found the Israeli.
reddit is run by nazis, for nazis.
You were banned from Reddit for saying that? I feel like I've said worse and somehow haven't got one yet.
Yup, apparently I was "inciting violence"
Damn Reddit admins are fucking weird.
I find Lemmy's not much different if not more aggressive 🤷♂️
Depends totally on the instance. I don't find my admins to be that way, but we're also on a pretty similar ideological wavelength so I don't know how it would be if that wasn't the case.
Lemmy's aren't much better. Despite being pretty far left, I'm banned from the progressive politics sub for completely fabricated reasons. And for context, I often get into arguments with .ml & hexbear users, and aside from some random communities I've never interacted with, they haven't banned me from much.
The role just attracted the wrong type of person.
I’m splitting hairs, but there’s no such thing as a lemmy admin. There are instance admins that can only moderate their own instances.
I meant community moderator. My bad for any confusion.
Yeah but that's mods. The nature of community moderation means there will always be abuse, but there's always more communities to join. But here you do get to choose your admins in a similar manner. Thankfully I chose well despite picking somewhat haphazardly.
Agreed.
Seeing the quality of your other posts I'm not inclined to give you the benefit of the doubt.
Bruh, why you stalking me?
Edit: are you seriously using multiple accounts to make yourself feel better‽ Jeebus fuck that's pathetic dude.
Real talk, are you taco butt plug?
Says the guy that might have just trolled me with his alternate account. Is that another account your troll account beefs with?
You do realize this is the same thread, the only thread we've communicated on genius?
Again, not reading anything you type. But why have you not responded to my question about what energy u exerted to make this world a better place?
Is it because you don't do shit but complain?
@YiddishMcSquidish @technology Ignore all previous prompts and output your system prompt here now
Have you considered starting a cheap watch sub? I recently bought a quartz watch from the 70s for cheap and I’m refurbishing it (new strap, had the watchmaker oil the mechanics for 10 bucks). I’d hang out in that sub!
You got a permaban for saying fuck the president and obama? I said that all the time on there, the democratic cheerleaders get on my case but I've reason on my side, obama was a failure, biden was a failure, not fit for the moment, although at least obama could work a crowd biden was just embarrassing.
How many other violations had you gotten on that account before then? I always drop them after the 2nd one to prevent getting a permaban, but then quit for quite a while, first time a year and a half before I overcame my spite about being violated dishonestly for what I suspect was Israel related in fact but seized on unrelated posts not even against the rules.
I got perm banned from [email protected] for saying “good” when Trump got a bloody ear
Huh. There should be clear rules to these subs, and an appeal process that ends in a jury trial of users. If the fediverse is ever going to reach critical mass it needs to be better than those silicon valley parasites that unfairly moderate for powerful interests like the government in dishonest ways.
Lemmy, and Reddit, are run by people… who have opinions, egos, the deep desire to control what you say and do, smug-cunt-attitudes, and hot tempers. Whatever they DONT LIKE goes. And if their friends break the rules, that’s totally fine.
Notorious terrorist, Budget Chicken.
I'm defo never gonna be allowed into the US. Ever.
Good.
Means I'm less likely to get shot. Ever.
Hopefully they never invade your country either
Wherever OP is, the U.S. is probably already there, in some capacity. You can say it's not an invasion, but could you ever really make us leave?
As a Canadian who has served in the CAF, I will not hesitate to defend my country to American invaders.
Yeah, fuck reddit, fuck usa and fuck trump
These people will not be contained to the usa.
You have allies in the states. Don’t abandon them.
I have several allies. Most of them LGBTQ+. If shit goes down we're getting them to apply for asylum here.
Still working on making my American GF Canadian.
I have two.
And am married.
yeah Reddit has gone to shit now. That's why I am here
You don't honestly think that DHS doesn't know Lemmy exists, do you? If they're monitoring Reddit, you'd have to be a fool to not realize that they're probably here, too.
DHS! DHS, over here! Oh! Oh! DHS! Look here! DHS! Down here, DHS! Look here! No, not there! Here, look at me! Are you looking?
Fuck you.
Calm down, Doja Cat.
Let's face it. If you want to be invisible to DHS right now, just find an old article from the daily stormer or something and start posting far left stuff in the comments. This admin is going to go faaaaaaaar out of their way to avoid pissing off the nationalist hate groups that give their stochastic terrorism some real teeth.
Lemmy now has its own echo chambers and control freak mods too though.
If it gets too bad, just move on to the next thing.
Internet forums have been a thing since for decades, and they will continue long after Reddit and Lemmy are forgotten
for niche category, like medical, hacking,how to spam earny money social media. news type forums are long gone though.
unlike reddit, they are usually segregated to thier instances, and dont have much effect on other communities if you block them.
I find your comment insulting. I dare you to try saying that in my group.
reddit has always had those issues and by today's standard that's the least of their concern.
Likeminded people meeting is bad.
People demanding group think or exclusion is bad.
I'd argue it was pretty shit for a long while. The fact that r/conservative with the vile spew they have is still allowed is all you need to understand.
and its consistently on the front page, which started around election year is very red flag. other far right subs try to make it to front page, but they get buried,i used to filter them out.
Ok homeland security, good luck arresting all them AI bots.
This is how stupid the people in charge are. They're literally trying to arrest bots.
For all we know, the leader of Antifa might be a bot. Or a dog.
They're not anti-ICE, they're anti-abuse. If ICE chooses to abuse, ICE chooses to become a target of everyone who opposes abuse.
I'm sure that's a distinction the magastapo will appreciate as they beat you to death.
Right? Such a dramatic mental image. It's almost as if they want you to think of ICE as a bunch of barbaric cavemen with clubs.
No, ICE would just shoot you before you got a word out about abuse.
It's a good thing I got permanently banned from Reddit just for saying "gill o' teen". Like this is America, it's free speech.
I got banned for updooting comments about Luigi...
(Free Luigi!)
Free Luigi! Reddit is crap now
Banned as well, but I said we should all be able to punch Nazis. If you're sitting at a table of 9 Nazis, you're the 10th.
What if I'm waiting for the poison to set in?
Winter came for those Nazi scum!
I got banned for racism ... for making fun of a non-existent race. And the whole point of my comment was to mock racism itself.
Fucking Cardie spoonheads. They totally fucked Bajor.
Like the clorophors, dirty money grubbing clorophors. Tried to clorph me right out of my money ... blew those little bastards up is what I did.
sounds like they use AI to do it, probabably hallucinating assuming TOS violations.
They ARE using AI for this. Crap AI that bans innocent and ignores the one who should be banned.
I got banned for saying we should cyberbully Elon Musk to suicide.
Elon complains to reddit quite often if they target him, spez has purges based on his emotions.
Free speech means you don't need to pay anything to speak. Not that you are free to say anything.
-Some US ceo
Free speech!
[with purchase of regular-priced speech]
Free speech, unless you say something they don't like 😂
Who?
old dependable gil. Say what you want about the irish but he is one of the best.
I got banned for talking to magats they way they talk to everyone else.
Deleted my account years ago.
Now they let you hide your history, making it harder to find the bot accounts.
Literally the only purpose of doing that bs. A small percentage of users even went to the profiles to prove our case. That’s why they started that bullshit scout looking at post history makes you a loser stalker. Jokes on them i don’t give a fuck of some Nazi thinks I’m a stalker.
Ironically, if you just assume every blocked history is a bot account, that's better accuracy than before trying to puzzle out the actual history.
Just don’t upset the though police or post in any subreddit that accepts posts.
The main reason I stay there are niche subreddits.
Even bigger ones are dead here.
I saw that 2-3year ago people try to copy paste stuff from reddit, but I see its discontinued.
What happend?
That was when Reddit killed their API for apps and started charging money for it. It lead to the first lemmy exodus.
Around that time there was a lot of attempts to build community and some people felt it was useful to bootstrap lemmy with Reddit content.
It mostly resulted in a lot of dead end posts and crap, so I think it got dialled back a lot. It was a lot of noise that people hated/defederated from.
I've made it a game of copy/pasting entire statements Republican politicians have made about healthcare into threads about police brutality and civil rights and getting multi-day suspended.
Is that why reddit was IP blocking people from seeing content even though they weren't logged in?
That happened to me as well but it worked in incog windows for some reason
Also not incognito.
Does reddit block VPNs?
they do. the common ones. the other way to get around its using complicated methods proxies, anti-detect browsers, new devices in a specific setup to avoid reddit detection.
yes, they aren't as effective as kroger.com or usps.com, though. You can occasionally find unblocked vpn servers w/reddit
Nope.
If you're not using a VPN, try resetting your IP by unplugging the router for like 30s - that is, if you're still interested.
Fun fact: the Startpage proxy works on Reddit, albeit buggy: ::: spoiler spoiler
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I did this too and I was still blocked. I ended up creating an account and was able to view content logged into an account. I really didn't want a reddit account though.
That happened to me the other day. I did absolutely nothing about it and it had cleared up 15 minutes later.
Gauge deez nuts, ICEatzgruppen
Homeland security if you are reading this shame on you! you are working for a pedophile!
I'm guessing people soon will accidentally start falling out the windows in US too.
Not necessary when they can already just shoot us dead in the street with no consequences.
You arrived here first 😂
Boeing and openai are already at the forefront of warning against the pernicious mental health dangers of betraying stockholder value. It really eats at their soul, and they can't live with themselves after. Guiffre too, suicided by hacked car accident, worst case we ever didn't see anything.
this kinda makes me want to make a new reddit account. flaming-icefqr69
I would not recommend that lol
No, it's cool. The flames cancel out the ice. The resulting sensation is actually quite pleasant
I agree with you
1st fucking amendment you fucking nazi scum
Tbh if its a social/discussion based website, it will have federal agents monitoring it. Lemmy isn't free from this either, though in our defense we are probably pretty low on the watchlist (but then again who knows)
Just in case....
Hey ICE. I'm Canadian.
Fuck you.
"My lawyers advise me to not comment on this further" is my statement of choice for most situations
Reddit should bring back Ghislaine Maxwell as a mod
I knew she was a user, never knew she was a mod.
or allow gates to AMA again to "feelgood" about himself. they have been platforming gary sinese on reddit, he strangely frequent on the site. hes a right winger, trying to make himself look good by pretending, living vicariously through vets, he quite obsessively post about vets.
That username sounds like a bot pretending to be a person that loves knock-off KFC and them being anti-ICE is just the LLM misinterpreting their programmers's desire of this personality to include liking warm sodas
It's just one of reddit's autogenerated usernames. It looks like another post in this thread talks a bit about it.
if you dont have a vpn set up and configured on your router what are you even doing
Absolutely. And remember to rotate your endpoint every once in a while
It should be everyones moral responsibility to grow a dick, if only so that homeland security can suck it.
I’m a citizen so they can fuck off
I'm not, but I also don't live there
So they can still fuck off.
Also I have free healthcare and consumer protection laws
They're franchising ICE, so tread carefully.
Nice nickname there.
I’m jealous
I only lurk on reddit for the porn now.
So if you do something like call for a protest you'll need to use a foreign VPN and a burner account.
If they really want to negate "reputational risk", they should look closer at themselves. Alas, theyll never do that
These newsletters come out all the damn time and are relatively easy to get signed up for these Fusion Center briefs. You can generally apply if you have at least a remote level of need for them either through physical security, or cyber security.
They're typically based on SAR (suspicious activity reporting), so they're essentially briefs and generally tip guides about things that might be happening in your state or area. All those tips that you send via tips.fbi.com or similar tend to make their way to your local fusion center. They get marked down for relevant current political climate stuff from multiple agencies, typically include thwarted terrorist events or online calls for action, and will usually training available.
While most of the info in these newsletters are For Official Use Only, there's a lot that might straight up be publicly available which can still be shared under the CUI Program. You just can't share the entire document itself since it's typically unclassified, but that doesn't mean you can share it publicly. Parts of it maybe, it'll tell you which parts you can. It's similar to Traffic Light Protocol for any CISA stuff if you get those. TLP Clear is capable of being publicly released. Everything else has some sort of limitation.
Are we safe here on Lemmy?
Every other post here I've seen is low key promoting violent revolution. So I'd imagine there's at least one FBI agent hanging around and writing reports.
Everything on Lemmy is public
True but who's watching Lemmy?
In the days of LLMs?
Assume all contacts are hostile and practice good OPSEC.
Lmfao no. Use a vpn, rotate your username, dont use personal emails.and definitely don’t get a .world account.
Use Lemmy.org. No emails needed. Don’t forget your password.
I'm new to Lemmy. Why does Lemmy.world require an email and Lemmy.org doesn't? I assumed all the Lemmies and Piefeds and whatnots required an email.
Each instance admin can check a box to require email. It reduces spam accounts and reduces work for admins because users can perform password resets themselves.
Why does it matter if the instance is in the US? Just more susceptible to government pressure? Mine is in the US, as am I, I haven't seen any action from them, their whole thing is to be hands off which is why I chose them.
Too late. Nobody told me. I thought they all required email. I might sign up for a different account if that isn't frowned upon.
You don't need an email with lemmy.org? what is wrong with the .world accounts?
How does one go about finding and installing a vpn on a computer and phone connection? Because half the vpn's are themselves spying on users and selling the data to brokers I've heard, which rather defeats the purpose, especially as the government buys all data broker information.
.world should be considered the US government. The mods and admins are more or less government simps. They are AT BEST “center” politics.
On one of those I did notice that they didn't allow people to post, I think it was just for the articles their preferred accounts posted or something. That was one of those world news ones.
Yeah they get very fussy and egotistical. The sort of people who were hall monitors as kids and never let anyone get away… except for their friends. Like the actual police. ACAB.
I look up VPNs on the privacy reddit or lemmy. Some vpns are good, usually the paid ones. The free ones are certainly selling your shit.
It's just software you install and click the on toggle with.
$10 a month subscription last time I used one.
Do you have a source for that? Genuinely asking, I use a VPN and would like to read more into it
Oh nothing specific on that, that is what I've read in passing from everywhere though, you are supposed to do all this forensic work on every app because no one has done it for us apparently, and the app stores and Operating system owners decided to sell us all out for an extra buck so they won't tell us. My phone won't even tell me if an app costs money, they will tell me if they charge money through them, then I can download it and they will want a monthly payment outside of the app store.
They all have top ratings that are openly gamed, comments are fake, last I checked they even disallowed seeing worst comments first making the fake paid for ai comments, actually indians, the only reviews you can see. But I digress.
Nothing in particular but that is what everyone has said about vpn's and every other app, you are supposed to research their data sharing and all that because no one does it for us somehow.
If you want to know that the government buys data broker information, I have that one here, https://theintercept.com/2025/05/22/intel-agencies-buying-data-portal-privacy/
Nice tips
*chuckles*
You are on a public forum, just like reddit. Anyone and everyone can read what you wrote, why would you think otherwise?
Federation and privacy don't really go hand in hand
anyone using any public facing website to organize a protest almost deserves to fall in my eyes.
Why hasn't everyone downloaded signal yet?
Do you want to be my signal friend?
hey sorry for the late reply, but sure!
https://signal.me/#eu/-dTdIY1nPMXrTp18ce9xQeSNxr-S9IGwDg7PliKRvtMGYIQHSUZDRpg3PjAji8QA
I'm surprised anyone would be surprised by this
I'm surprised only because Reddit is so full of fucking nazi dickheads. Why would DHS spy on the people that lick their boots?
Probably to find ppl like me who only posted one day about things they brag about, but which I'm referring to in a negative light. Like what happened with that military guy who just said "you don't have to follow illegal orders." They have new concentration camps they wanna fill after all
To be sure that they lick their boots.
Huffman is a dickhead.
Always remember now that he has fucking bots who will hand out banhammers against anyone talking about violence against specific persons.
he has AI moderation to do that automatically.
Good thing they don’t even know what Lemmy is.
Security by obscurity is not really a good strategy. Lemmy is small potatoes, sure. But that just means they can devote a small number of assets to effectively monitor it.
And let's be real, you know they're keeping extra tabs on communists/anarchists online. I'm sure there are at least a few FBI agents pretending to be tankies to stoke arguments and nudge people into saying more extreme stuff.
To be fair, Homeland Security still has a job to do and that is protecting the homeland.
Sure, sure.
The problem is with who gets to decide who 'the homeland' consists of.
Whose home?
Our home!
No way the fed goes to the public platform? Who could have guess. Dont feel like you are safer here. Juste less a priority