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38k Post about musk pressuring reddit to censor posts. There will probably be lots of people confused about lemmy here. (www.reddit.com)
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[–] 30 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I'm here because I got permanently banned for violence

I said "bad bot" to a nazi.

I doubt they'll ever reinstate the people they've banned. They ban based on IMEI numbers, so it's impossible to make another account unless you get a new device

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  • [–] [S] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Are you sure it was IMEI? Unless you were using reddit over sms they shouldn't have access to that. IP addresses on the other hand they do have, and those are network specific.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I'll see if I can wait out an IP ban, apparently those only last around 100 days or so before they dump the data

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Does your IP never change? When I had a landline I had a new IP every month.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    Absolutely no idea! It's not something I've looked at. I don't have a home internet connection, I don't need one, so I just have my phone

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Mobile IPs tend to change very often. You can look up your IP (there are many websites for this), turn airplane mode on and turn it off again. This could assign a different IP (at least it did when I just tried).

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    This comment thread makes me think it would be cool if there was a Lemmy community for sharing Reddit ban evasion info

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    Probably not IMEI as 3rd party android applications haven't been able to see that since android 10 (there are other persistent identifiers such as widevine DRM ID)

    You probably realise but even if they could, you could get around this by simply using the web browser to access Reddit

    https://grapheneos.org/faq#hardware-identifiers

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  • [–] -1 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    Still banned straight away

    There's more to device recognition than IMEI, and I was using the proper app out of convenience

    I want it in my pocket, not on a computer

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    You encountered a real person! And they were not happy getting called a nazi.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I guess they had a problem with being told that supporting Musk's sig heil gestures as "funny" meant they were cool with nazis

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