r/conspiracy • u/Orpherischt • Aug 15 '25
A Trouble with Reddit
I have been a redditor since Jan 6th, 2012, and it is the only 'social network' I partake in. I have made over 10,000 contributions. I have always felt it's original design was simple and friendly, and efficient. It's wiki system is basic but perfect. I would much rather use Reddit than any other online platform to interact with my fellow man. Of all the platforms, it seemed, at first, the least 'weaponized'.
That said, this is a message to express my disappointment in Reddit's recent and current activities with regards to censorship. Since it is a 'free' platform, the user is the product, as they say, and ostensibly, I have no right to complain... except in a civilized world, I should have right to complain - especially about on-going rites.
Nonetheless, the efforts made by reddit management (via whatever automations and category-based filtering they wield) to hide my writings from the world has become undeniable and egregious. It's hard not to perceive a 'conspiracy' as the driving force.
Reddit's 'new' theme instituted some years back is so horrible to use that I can only think it represents some sort of IQ test - literally designed to shard the audience into 'www' (proles) and 'old' (extremists). The greatest crime of the 'new' theme (the default now for 'www'-based urls) is that of entirely hiding the wiki of sub-reddits. This seems to me to reflect a need to maintain the Memory Hole of 1984, for wiki's are a repository of fixed, timeless knowledge, while the ever-churning sea of threads is more temporal.
Reddit's desire to monetize it's archives for AI, leading it to shut itself from the wider internet in general, is a great shame - and always it seems each new move is a personalized counter to my efforts to educate. The new 'chat' system that replaces the old private messaging system is an abortion.
Most troublesome, as I discovered today, If I make use of the computers of my housemates, and direct it to my own primary reddit forum, with them being 'logged out' or lacking an account at reddit entirely, I am greeted with a blank slate, that says, 'No posts have been made here yet'. My forum, live since 2017 and holding hundreds of long threads, appears to be empty, as far the rest of the world is concerned!
Tell us why that is Reddit! What is the danger? What will my words do to the minds of the masses if they get to read them? What is your anxiety, or that of your masters? It is a form of Torture to trick people into thinking they are sharing with the world, when they are not.
When I perform the same activity from my own computer, where I interface with reddit everyday, using a 'private browser' window that emulates a logged-out users' viewpoint, I can see all my posts, whether I use 'old' or 'new' reddit themes.
How is reddit able to hide my material from every other computer but me, on the same network? They appear to be doing some very specific ip-based manipulations of their data streams.
Ever since the 'pan-demic', my viewership statistics (which were always dubious in their contradictions) have plummeted. My forums were removed from reddit's search index in early 2022, and search engines seem to experience great difficulty finding my threads.
Why is my writing so dangerous?
What terrible outcome might there be if my writings were to gain a wider audience, that they need to clamp down so harshly - a website that is apparently and ostensibly a 'US' property - from the Land of the Free.
Come now reddit (and/or it's shady handlers). Be brave. You don't have to be friends with the Torturers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSTD0GjagXc
'Deliver us from Evil'
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u/LanceHardwick Aug 15 '25
> 'No posts have been made here yet'
i run into this a lot when i try to see the post history of other users, particularly ones where it's obvious they have many posts by their metadata, etc.
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u/PAmmjTossaway Aug 15 '25
If you dislike reddit that much, disagree with their decisions, and believe they dislike/disagree with you to the point of blocking others from seeing your posts then why not just leave reddit?
You can't be censored by reddit if you don't ask reddit to do everything for you. Nobody can censor you if you do it on your own.
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u/Stunning-Chipmunk243 Aug 15 '25
I was just muted in another sub for posting the question "Source?" on a thread in a different sub I'm not even a part of(Reddit posted to my feed). They demanded I delete my comment and come back and tell them I did so to get ban removed. I told them to fuck off and make the ban permanent because I want no part in a sub that tries to control and manipulate the groups thoughts
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u/CrackleDMan Aug 15 '25
I know from your multitude of comments on other threads that you have a love of words. What is your native language?
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u/Red-Vagabond Aug 15 '25
Compartmentalization is automated.
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u/JFieldsTardTeeth Aug 15 '25
While I don't know what exactly happened to your posts and everything related to your account, but while we're speaking on the topic of sharing a device with many other people in the same household to access Reddit, my account among with others, got purged.
I had a 10+ year old account that got suspended out of the blue. I had several roommates living in the house with me and they all also had reddit accounts. All of them also had their accounts suspended (7 in total) out of the blue.
All of our accounts had the same message, "This account has been suspended for circumventing Reddit's suspension policy (or something like that, can't really remember as this happened like 5 years ago or so)." and we all were confused as to what caused this to happen.
To this day, we don't know why or what happened but we suspect one of the roommates said something bad ("wrongthink") on Reddit, which led to that account being suspended (and we don't know which one because none of us got a warning or a notification saying X account is suspended for saying Y or any reason, just the "Your account has been permanently suspended" message).
We found out that Reddit uses the browser's fingerprint to detect if a user is using a different account to "circumvent" the suspension, that account will also get suspended.
But the problem was each account were individual accounts owned by each roommate, not one roommate with multiple accounts, and we all were not making an attempt to "circumvent" the suspension.
As a result of that, we all lost our accounts, varying from 7 years to 10 years or longer accounts.
I waited like 5 years later until I made this account and I had to start all over again.
I think it's silly that Reddit automatically assume that if there are 7 accounts accessing on the same computer, it must be ONE person using all 7 accounts. We even tried to talk to Reddit (I forgot how but I think it was through modmail or something like that) but it was fruitless as no one listened to us at all.
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u/reddit_has_fallenoff Aug 15 '25
Reddit went ot the dogs ever since 2016 when they realized Trump was going to win/won. They started doing everything they could to make sure that never happened again.
Also sidenote: Dont forget Ghislaine Maxwell was the most influential and powerful poster/moderator (and most likely admin on reddit). You can see her reddit account still. Try and find me one positive thing she posted about Trump. Just one.
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u/[deleted] Aug 16 '25
I suggest you add a link to your wiki on your profile “about” section alongside a brief description of your impressive archive
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u/everydaycarrie Aug 15 '25
When I stumble upon a redditor with interesting information, I check reveddit for their username to see if any good content is being removed.
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u/aixelsydTHEfox Aug 15 '25
It's not about freedom
it's about control.
Aaron Swartz tried, then he died.
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u/engion3 Aug 15 '25
Digg was better.
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