there are bots who are able to check if a image is a repost or not and they can then remove the post if it’s a repost.

to my knowledge this limit existed already for a long time. it’s intented to prevent scraping and automatic bots. They basically want prevent people from using bots who act as a browser instead of using their API (where they can limit them) to do stuff on reddit.

They also have a automatic system detecting when too many clients access them with similar or “odd” characteristics (weird useragents, referers, amount of requests, weird headers in the request etc.) - if they detect such a case they usually limit you and then completly block you for hours, days or months. I couldn’t open reddit on my chrome app anymore because that as an example (i was developing an reddit client and they detected my useragent browser name as “too old”… so they just banned my browser while others worked fine )

i 99% of the time use old reddit so dunno about that. but usually if i get replys to old comments its actual users and not bots. sometimes i replied to them and asked and they said they found it random by looking through reddit and google as an example.

i sometimes get comments to sometimes even 6+ years old comments. it’s rare but happens and i always wonder how someone found my comment after this time.

they did this already for a longer while, yes. that’s why most people stayed away from the offical “app”

my how wasn’t actually intented to be serious. it was just meant as a joke.

how?

just checked, yupp 2.7.

you’re welcome :)

there is a timer. if you set a pixel, this timer starts new and its 5 minutes. after that 5 minutes, you can set a new pixel. but because other users also can do the same, its usually a huge sabotage against everyone. if you don’t have a lot of friends who help you, bringing even a tiny picture on the board is impossible. i yesterday just tried to spell “lemmy” in a region where nothing was posted. took me almost 30-50 minutes to get the “L” done… and then suddenly 3-4 users came along and killed all of my work. then i said fuck it and stopped trying.

its just too frustrating solo. so i stopped trying. i hoped when i can get the “L” and “E” started others would maybe get the idea and help, but nah. there are more people who love to sabotage others on purpose for the lulz. so meh.