Reddit owns/uses multiple domains and the multiple domains can certainly collaborate to compromise your anonymity (or at least pseudonymity) even with third-party cookie blocking enabled. For instance they use redd.it for url shortening like this url. You could clear all your cookies for *.reddit.com and perhaps hide that you are the same user they previously banned for a while, but if redd.it has ever set any cookies that you haven’t cleared, the first time you visit a redd.it it could reveal your identity to Reddit. They probably own quite a number of other domains that might similarly reveal your identity to Reddit, and there are most likely third party companies that own other domains that will collaborate with Reddit in some way or another that will reveal your identity to Reddit.

As someone who has been boycotting Reddit since the API-enshittificationing, I can’t help but echo SpaceNoodle.

However.

Did you make sure your IP address has changed? Typically dynamic IPs don’t change very often unless you disconnect your router and/or modem temporarily (and sometimes even that won’t do it.) You’d need to check what your public IP is, restart or disconnect-and-reconnect your modem to get a new IP address, then check your IP address again. Unless you do all that and confirm your IP address has changed, it’s risky to try again on your laptop.

Also, you’ll want to clear more than just your Reddit cache. To be safe, I’d recommend clearing all your data in your browser. Cache, cookies, history, local SQL, all of it. And for all domains. (I don’t know to what extent Reddit may use other domains for things like authentication and such. They might still be able to tell you’re “you” even if you clear all the cookies and such for *.reddit.com.)

Meta’s months-old AI unit is a soul-crushing gulag

But they repeat themselves.

More like “nice-in-quotation-marks”. Maybe “polite” would have been a better word. They smile bigger – exaggerated and insincere. They try to satisfy whatever you’re wanting so they can conclude the interaction as quickly as possible. They keep an air of superior self-righteousness while being nice… defensively.

Mind you, I do even put “polite” in quotes on purpose. The more stuck-up folks can very “politely” cut you straight off at the knees in a way that preserves some semblance of plausible deniability where poorer folks (on average, very much a generalization) may be more real/authentic in general and can be more direct about calling you an asshole.

Mind you, this friend of mine who made this observation didn’t say any of what I said in this comment. That’s just my own editorializing.

No matter how low it goes I’ll never understand how it isn’t zero. (As much as it should be zero, it unfortunately never will be. Well over a hundreds of years from now, I imagine right-wingers will romanticize Trump the same way they romanticize Reagan and the Civil War and… you know… Hitler.)

I have a friend who recently moved from the poorer side of the town I live in to the richer. (I’ve always lived in the latter, richer area.) And he was talking about how striking it was to him that on the richer side, strangers would go way out of their way to avoid interacting or making eye contact or anything, but the moment you forced the issue and start actually talking to them, they’re the nicest people ever. The other side of town, interaction wasn’t avoided the same way, and they wouldn’t necessarily be quite as nice in their interactions.

Wow. That’s super shitty that’s becoming necessary for some projects. But I don’t fault the Ladybird folks for deciding this was necessary.

Making it possible to vote up and/or down while preventing double-voting for the same account in a distributed application like Fediverse sort of applications seems challenging at best unless every instance knows exactly who voted which way on what. What I wish is that Lemmy would make it a proper feature that it was public information who voted on what.

I dunno. Maybe it would be possible to implement some zero-knowledge proof sort of thing that would keep people from double-voting (purposefully or accidentally) without anybody but the voter knowing who voted for what. But absent that, I’d rather that seeing that information wasn’t limited to an elite group of users composed of just mods/admins. I’d also rather that I didn’t have to go to a separate site to see information about upvotes and downvotes.

I suppose the argument could be made that we could get away with not having votes. Just make how high it shows up high on the “hot” sort by how many comments it has. Though I do feel like there are “good” posts that I’d want to see with few/no comments.

Ha! I don’t mod many communities, but I like to think I’m pretty reasonable about it. I definitely try to err on the side of not taking mod action.

I have a very selective list of “I want to see all the posts that get posted to this community” communities that I’m subscribed to that gives me like 5 posts per day at most, and I sort that by subscribed/new. Once I’m done catching up with those, I go to all/new, and I block communities I don’t ever want to see again. It’s nice because 1) I get to see all the posts I really want to see, 2) I can block the “crap I don’t want in front of me for no reason”, and 3) new communities that I might be interested in make it in front of my eyes without me having to go search for them or hope the ones I’d want to see happen to come up in a “new communities” community on my feed.

Thanks for this! I’m not sure it’s working correctly for me. It’s only showing five downvoted posts. (And according to lemvotes.org, I’ve downvoted over 300 posts.) After that it gives me an error: TypeError: can't access property "data", W.value[r.feedId] is undefined and the “retry” button doesn’t do anything. But it still gives me something to try if I can figure a way to fix that somehow.

A lot of your posts make me feel like I’m missing a lot of very specific context.

No worries! Didn’t take me more than a couple of minutes to find. I just posted the link in case anyone else would want it.

Found it: https://live.acarsdrama.com/@acarsdrama/116708457056507627

You put this better than I could. I hate it when I get that tiny rush of “oh that’s cool” whenever I see/hear/experience something before realizing it’s completely bullshit.

“Oh shit, Shaboozey did a collab with Eminem? Gotta hear that. This is so coo-… fake. It’s fucking fake. Fffffffuuuuuuuuuuuu…”

Every time, it feels like it “pollutes” or “taints” my brain. I don’t want that shit in there. For a similar reason to why I immediately go and look up a news story I see somewhere random on Snopes if it seems a little too perfect.

Why do you think the hate is so vocal/common/strong?

When blockchain was the new hot snakeoil, sure there was the annoying guy at work that would try to buttonhole you and try to get you to invest your life savings in Skibidicoin or whatever, but you could tell them to fuck off and it wouldn’t really be an issue. But there’s no way you can just not participate in the whole “generative AI” thing.

It’s not an offensive sort of vocal hatred. It’s a defensive sort of vocal hatred. If people (and yes, my employer is one of the worse offenders) would quit nonconsentually forcing AI on me, I’d opt out. But as it is, my only option is to take it and then go vent on Lemmy.

The feds blackmailed and jailed some of the most respected members of the community. That’s kinda when it fell apart.

• Step 1: Figure out why you’re not doing thing.
• Step 2: Take steps to address the reason why you’re not doing thing.

Seems simple, and in a way it is, but in other ways it can be very difficult.

On step 1, I recommend first researching the term “maladaptive daydreaming”. Seems relevant to what you’re describing.

Oh man. I’ve gotta re-watch that. I haven’t seen it since I was a kid.

Council Bluffs, IA. I once had family there and there’s a story in our family. One of them had a radio of some sort that works on trucker frequencies and he overheard a conversation between trucker CBs that went something like:

• “I’ve never been to Council Bluffs before. What’s it like?”
• “Well, if the earth needed an enema, Bluffs is where they’d put the tube.”

It used to be a railroad town, but the railroad pulled out and left economic carnage in its wake. Meanwhile, Omaha, just across the river, is comparatively very affluent with skilled jobs in tech, so Bluffs is kindof “the slums” (casualties of the worst end of capitalism.) and Omaha is all gentrified and hip, which rubs salt in the wound, and those who are still in Bluffs are the ones who lacked the wherewithal (luck, credit (social, financial, or otherwise), mental health, etc) to move to Omaha. Last time I was in Bluffs (and that was even before I knew the rail background story) it really felt like there was just a pall over the whole place. The strangers you saw at the grocery store or whatever just seemed “down and out” in an undefinable way. The local government seems some combination of corrupt and incompetent and the few folks I know of who still live in Bluffs there are racists and MAGA nuts and grifters and (I say this with love) deeply mentally ill. It’s a disturbingly strange and depressing place.