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Homeland Security Spying on Reddit Users
Submitted 6 hours ago by Beep@lemmus.org to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/homeland-security-spies-on-reddit
Comments
nonentity@sh.itjust.works 3 hours ago
tidderuuf@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
They can gauge this: Fuck ICE.
EvilBit@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Is Homeland Security chasing bots? Because that’s the bottiest name I’ve ever seen. If so, please continue. 🍿
otter@lemmy.ca 6 hours ago
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.
JackbyDev@programming.dev 35 minutes ago
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.)
EvilBit@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Fair enough. Maybe I’m too old for the internet.
UnspecificGravity@piefed.social 4 hours ago
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.
dan@upvote.au 6 hours ago
I see it a lot, too. Reddit’s been around for 20 years, so all the good usernames are already taken.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 3 hours ago
thats how they mass-create bot accounts, just create a large number without carefully making one that reddit wont immediately ban you on.
ToTheGraveMyLove@sh.itjust.works 1 hour ago
Reddit suggested usernames are always dumb shit like that.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 3 hours ago
yes, and PALINTIR is active on reddit using propaganda bots, along side the russian and MOSSAD ones.
hector@lemmy.today 1 hour ago
I don’t disbelieve it, do you recall where you read that?
Railcar8095@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
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.
JayGray91@piefed.social 54 minutes ago
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.
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 4 hours ago
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 :(
kablez@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
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.
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 2 hours ago
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.
LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 4 hours ago
You were banned from Reddit for saying that? I feel like I’ve said worse and somehow haven’t got one yet.
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 3 hours ago
Yup, apparently I was “inciting violence”
hector@lemmy.today 1 hour ago
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.
whereIsTamara@lemmy.org 1 hour ago
I got perm banned from news@lemmy.world for saying “good” when Trump got a bloody ear
robocall@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Are we safe here on Lemmy?
lastlybutfirstly@lemmy.world 52 minutes ago
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.
Damage@feddit.it 1 hour ago
Everything on Lemmy is public
whereIsTamara@lemmy.org 1 hour ago
Lmfao no. Use a vpn, rotate your username, do t use personal emails.and definitely don’t get a .world account.
Use Lemmy.org. No emails needed. Don’t forget your password.
lastlybutfirstly@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
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.
yardratianSoma@lemmy.ca 1 hour ago
anyone using any public facing website to organized a protest almost deserves to fall in my eyes.
Why hasn’t everyone downloaded signal yet?
baatliwala@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Federation and privacy don’t really go hand in hand
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
If they really want to negate “reputational risk”, they should look closer at themselves. Alas, theyll never do that
PissingIntoTheWind@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Good thing they don’t even know what Lemmy is.
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 6 hours ago
Gauge deez nuts, ICEatzgruppen
cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 hours ago
if you dont have a vpn set up and configured on your router what are you even doing
floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 hours ago
Absolutely. And remember to rotate your endpoint every once in a while
HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 hours ago
1st fucking amendment you fucking Nazis
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
It should be everyones moral responsibility to grow a dick, if only so that homeland security can suck it.
DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 5 hours ago
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
elephantium@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
It’s just one of reddit’s autogenerated usernames. It looks like another post in this thread talks a bit about it.
Bruncvik@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
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.