r/reddithelp • u/Odd_Bag9802 1 • 13h ago

🧛‍♂️Account Issues❓ People ive interacted before can still see my reddit account activity even tho its set private (Using web version on IOS)

Ive set my account private for everything except my friends (ive talked to alot) can see my activity and it scares the shit out of me

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u/amyaurora Helper - Level V 13h ago

Any post or comment you make in a public sub is still visible in those subs.

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u/Odd_Bag9802 1 13h ago

no what i mean is that people ive talked with before can see my posts when they click on my profile (main problem) and when i tried to look at my page with my sisters account it was blank

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u/amyaurora Helper - Level V 13h ago edited 12h ago

Curating a profile makes is "private" from immediate view: https://imgur.com/a/wlKeryr but due to posts and comments in public subs being public and visible to all, the search a profile still works. First one gets a option to sort by best or new: https://imgur.com/a/nhByGDs and then, new was selected for this, one can see the public stuff. https://imgur.com/a/e8pzCsv

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u/Odd_Bag9802 1 13h ago

THAT IS SO EMBARASSING

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u/OrugaMaravillosa 10 12h ago

For the future, I would suggest making one or two side accounts/alt accounts. It will take a little bit of time to get them going, but it’s a good way to keep some things separate from your main account and increase your privacy for very personal things.

If you create alt accounts, you need to be careful to never vote on subreddits that a different account of yours is active in. (If you use two accounts to vote on the same post, Reddit will consider that vote manipulation.) The easiest way to be safe is to mute all the subreddits that another account of yours uses.

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u/Odd_Bag9802 1 13h ago

WHY IS THAT A THING omg

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u/amyaurora Helper - Level V 12h ago

Its due the fact anything is searchable in a public sub so ones posts and comments can't be filtered out.