12 year old account got permabanned for telling a Nazi off. But even before this happened I’ve noticed how much reddit has dropped off the last few years compared to when I discovered it.
Shitty moderation, biased mods, oh well
Reddit is fucking dead. It’s like 40% Russian psyops trolls, 25% bots, 25% Nazi trolls, 5% users, and 5% admins looking for shit to ban people for
Remember back in 2022 when Russia disconnected from the global Internet? Reddit was great that day. The amount of trolls and devisive posts plummeted and discussions were much more civil. That was when I first started thinking about looking for a different place to hang out (I had been a pretty prolific reddit commenter). Then the stuff in spring 2023 happened and I found my way here, leaving Reddit for good. No regrets for sure.
Oh that was a golden day indeed. You were able to have a civil discussion with someone who disagreed with you and both of you had a pretty good time. Not only on Reddit but also on fucking YouTube!
Shows you how much Russia turnes anything it touches into pure shit.
Apart from the 5% users, don’t the rest all overlap entirely?
Yes, but they make sure they have a separate account for each category, so the math works out.
actually you can turn that 5% admin, to AI autobanning people, becauses thats been happening since janurary.
almost all the appeals were AI responses.
And 100% cunt mods.
I had a 13 year old account I simply stopped using in 2023 when compact.reddit.com was killed and the API changes fees were introduced. Lemmy was “good enough” get to get what I was getting from reddit. I stopped using reddit and haven’t posted since.
I did the same, but kept the account, just never log into it.
I deleted my accounts.
Burn that fucking bridge baby.
Your data is still there for Reddit to monetize.
Overwrite all your old posts with a protest message. Wait a day. Repeat. Wait a week. Repeat. A month, repeat. Then delete shit. Going back to undelete a random post managed in this manner will be too costly for them.
Downside is that I have yet to find a script that actually catches everything. All the well-known scripts miss a lot, likely on account of their limitations.
I’d say the most recent major influences were the IPO and the emergence of LLMs.
Reddit becoming a publicly traded company and the preparation to do so certainly initiated a major shift in its priorities.
Ai and large language models make it easier than ever to create shiny, but low quality content.
And the rest is just reddit becoming more mainstream leading to an overall shift towards banal rather than niche topics.
i said they are following the facebook method, FB is now mostly AI using old accounts pushing right wing propaganda, i only see reddit will do the same eventually. or they try to look like a"both sides" type of site while allowing signicant astroturfing from russian trolls.
I suspect they have been tweaking the front page algorithms to bury niche posts. Niche subs that I already follow don’t seem to have changed, but r/popular and r/all have definitely lost their spark.
pushing r/conservatives, and any sub that talk about politics to the front was pretty obvious of the manipulation. Also the “baiting subs” like glowups, gym is there too.
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I got a 3 day site wide ban for saying that without due process, these ICE guys are just racking up hundreds of kidnapping and trafficking charges in a sane world. The ban said I was threatening violence. I’m done with Reddit.
I figure they have AI chatbots making the decisions and it can’t
termtell the difference between talking about violence and advocating for violenceOr underpaid and overworked and possibly non native speaker human contractors
most of them use bots, the mods admitted to using those and they dint care if it gets random people or not(wether the context of the reporting was offensive or not), they believe it gets rid of them having to deal with it personally. i was looking at the modhelp, and help subs.
It really seems like it. I had all my posts wiped for the night when I got banned. It bothered me that my posts in r/lockpicking got wiped after I made a post in /r/news. I just said ICE agents should be concerned with the amount of kidnapping and trafficking charges that they could see if sanity takes back over because it’s getting into the thousands. Mods said that was violent talk and I was banned. I’ll miss r/lockpicking. It was a fun community.
Considering that the US is a fascist dictatorship now, pigboy is a fascist, and r/conservative gets boosted to the front page, it’s likely a non trivial number of mods and admins are paid intelligence operatives acting on behalf of Russia, fascists/conservatives, and corporate lobbyists.
When I got banned for ‘promoting violence’ they said that the ai had flagged it, but a human had confirmed it. The humans are just as fucking clueless about context.
The human automated their job with AI and is just collecting a paycheck
Living the dream.
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Most of reddit is now a gross loop of ChatGPT shitting into its own mouth.
Like well obver 50% of the accounts are not real people anymore, moderation is also now handled by AI.
True but point of OP is that it used to be liberal echo chamber but that has now changed.
Clearly Elon wants it a different way so you post anything you like as long as it fits Elon’s desired narrative.
It didn’t start as an echo chamber. Initially it was one of the few places online a progressive minded person could go and feel like they could express their opinions openly. And by “progressive” I mean both left and right leaning ideologies.
Which, funny enough is now a foreign concept. We call everyone on the left “progressive”, even though Biden and Kamala are clearly conservative Democrats. And we call Vance a “conservative” even though he’s clearly a progressive Republican.
reddit holding to subs, like conservative, and a different donald sub+cospniracy, newnormal, trueunpopularopinion was a red flag.
Yep, absolutely. I lean right but fucking hate Trump. On lemmy I can say that, on old reddit I could say that, on current reddit I’ll get really nasty, hateful remarks and almost zero open dialogue
there was an article a while back, said 50% were bots anyways, while i was on reddit, it got noticibally quiet when reddit decided to do one of these purges.
They want to be “Corporate Friendly.”
Criticize corporations, or Musk and Trump for a week, enjoy your permanent ban.
We’ll be here for you.
I got permabanned just for participating in /r/enoughmuskspam. We figured out Musk frequented the sub, and as an active member who mocked him daily, I had a feeling it was coming. I’m fairly sure he flagged me and other users for permabans.
Their excuse was that I said (((Soros))) to a Nazi MAGA claiming Soros was funding all the protests, which wasn’t at all true. Why is that a bannable offense? Never seen censorship like that on the net in my life
My suspicion is that it’s happening a lot and that they want to turn Reddit red like they did with Twitter. Musk and Reddit’s CEO are pals.
That was a honeypot to ban anyone critical of Musk, and corporations in general.
I fell for it, too.
You didn’t fall for it, you were shown what the site really is and made a good switch to a better website.
musk monitors reddit , since hes on xitter all the time. he has the time, because hes high on cocaine or adderall to give him that energy.
Billionaires are taking control of any avenue for free speech. Get yourself ready to switch to torr. Won’t be long now until it’s the last place free of misinfo/disinfo campains.
Torr?
Reddits purpose is to create Nazis. You can post anything and use AI bots to do it as long as you push right wing propaganda.
Reddit got threatened by a billionaire Nazi. Reddit caved to said billionaire Nazi.
When you make a new account it’s asks you for some of your likes. Sports, gaming, memes… Turns out Elon Musk is his own interest as well.
Yep, also told off Nazis. Then, perm banned. I’ve been on that site for 15 years, moved over to Lemmy. Fuck Reddit.
I was permabanned twice for speaking favorably of a certain green-capped man.
Don’t worry, you can say Luigi Mangione here.
And say Luigi Mangione’s glorious name I will.
How dare you blasphemers.
It’s “Saint Luigi.” Get it right!
I preferred green mario
i recieved a temp ban for reporting trolls on r/tech because they said " i reported too many people", which my understanding based on other reports it was going to be permabanned anyways after the temp ban was lifted.
Enshittification happened, a long time ago.
Got banned for saying that “Israeli people should be upset enough with Netanyahu to have his head on a pike” for “advocating violence”. Even non-native English speakers are familiar with this expression which does not literally mean heads on pikes unless you somehow travel back in time to medieval Europe.
I’ve been on reddit since it’s inception and while I didn’t go there that often now that Lemmy exists the ban kinda seals the Reddit brand for me.
Another turning point was the April fools mini game this year which was universally hated. This has never happened on Reddit before. I think Reddit is beyond redemption at this point unfortunately and Reddit itself thinks that so they’ll get their bags while they can.
on pics i was able to get some people reported for the ops of those post trying to frame it as a BIDEN only issue(these gaza injuries pics are a biden caused issue) i was reminding them all republicans wouldve supported as well as any D president, which i reported as misinformation . and then i pointed out this was never the issue for the decades of the same violence while benajmain was in power, and suddenly it started popping up as propaganda against biden. remember trump told Netanyahu not to stop the attacks, because it would hurt his chances of winning, dint seen any railing trump for doing that, so it means all those posts were just to attack the dems.
Tbh I’m 80% conviced that Reddit is infiltrated by Israel astroturf and I say that as someone who used to support Israel.
All these bad actor signs that Israel justifies is actually doing a long term opposite if it can flip supporters like this. Extremely poor leadership of really unmatched levels up until recent US election of Trump imo.
I mean a lot of things happened to Reddit.
The most recent obvious decline was allowing AI moderation. That’s when I finally checked out.
Yup. No description other than ‘you violated the rules’ and you’re supposed to guess which rule. It’s like dating a gaslighting sociopath.
it was pretty obvious when in feb, everyone was getting the AI ban message left and right, and on all your old accounts too. and then comes the luigi/violence banning, plus musk interference. and now SHADOWBANNINg at random for anything, its just to keep the user numbers low on the site. for normal users, and not spammers(of fans, links) instant ban for some, and then they accidentally commented ina sub where it might have requirements.
