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I have been using Reddit for the last couple of years. It feels like it got worse ever since u/spez banned 3rd party clients which requires me to use revanced reddit now. Now the latest saga involves subreddits now banning you for participating in other subreddit they think are bad. This is just pure censorship at this point. And you want to know the best part Reddit has done NOTHING to stop this issue.
If you want to avoid censorship you picked the wrong lemmy instance to join lol
They are arbitrarily nuking peops to replace with bots. My wife got banned for laughing at a ratty pic near a whole wheat wrap and saying yum. Reddit said it was inciting violence. 2 days ago there was an actual picture of a rat in a wrap and no one was nuked. I also was nuked a month or so ago.
and it doesnt even slow down any bots, the propaganda bots they arnt touching. plus the bots that people use to earn money, they are just barely keeping them at bay. instead they go after the non-bot users.
im in a forum where people are using hundreds to thousands of accounts at a time to evade bans.
what they are really doing is just want botting, and data to scrape for AI purposes, plus a read only site for advertisement exposure. they seem to already require some kind ID for nsfw for UK users, underaged. only matter of time before they resemble FB.
Subreddits have banned people for activities that users do in other subreddits since long before the API changes. Reddit was bad, long before the API changes. The writing was on the wall when they first changed how votes were displayed, its what started the mass trend up karma farming. There used to be a lot of novelty accounts going around, the small user base kept things grounded and on topic. Then users like gallowboob took over, flooded the site with repost after repost, farming karma, other users began doing the same and now its nothing more than karma hell.
Comment threads are rarely helpful, usually full of trolling, or pun threads, or jokes, or other useless unhelpful crap.
Once a community, any community, becames large enough, the quality of the output drops. If you have 10000 users in a sub/community, and only a couple hundred that actually like the topic, the trolls and the off topic karma whores will take over. Low effort, low skill, low floor, low ceiling. Enshitification isn't just a word, and it didn't just happen over night. It's been happening for a while. The internet will never be as good as it used to be, sure we can do more, watch more, send more, download more, play more, etc. But the smaller close-knit communities that helped cause the internet to thrive in the first place are never coming back.
Enshitification and dead internet theory have made sure of that.
Now the latest saga involves subreddits now banning you for participating in other subreddit they think are bad.
This isn't new, and a significant reason that I segmented my alts was so that I didn't comment in "opposing" subs.
It's the new 4chan. lmao
True. Reddit should be banned. It is promoting intolerance, hatred.
To be fair, the mass majority of things have gotten worse.
I quoted "a banned comment" with quotation marks and asked if it was the reason that Redditor was banned.
Next thing I knew, I was banned.
That's stupid. I am done with Reddit
Last couple of years? You mean in the last decade.
Truly man, nothing will recapture 15 years ago reddit for me. Every thread was fresher than any thread now. There ws still the awful lyrics chains but peoples comments were real and just hilarious.
Even the sluts were real sluts now they are only in it for the OF exposure.
I remember the lamp comments and slam dancing dildos the most, great stories.
Welcome
Yo dawg I heard you like gatekeeping and purity tests, so I got the algorithm here to Pimp Ur App!
TBF that’s happened here, too. However, it isn’t institutionalized like reddit is doing.
Reddit is like all news sites these days, you simply can’t even quote the people discussed in the thread and not get banned. Reddit has made a choice to follow the current administrations guidelines on what should be banned. And the millions of users make jokes and stay there. They also think they are making a difference there.
I’ll check it if there is some news I want to know more about, but I’ve pretty much given up Reddit and on all social media. I cary a book with me and just read if I have a few minutes. I may be less connected and informed but I feel happier.
Of course here I am complaining about one place on another.
i'm surprised I quit reddit cold turkey and never looked back, i was fairly addicted to that place. reddit was getting bad before 2023, when i left, but at that point was getting clear that wasn't getting any better
Lemmy really helped scratch the Reddit itch. I was lucky enough that my app of choice (boost) was also available for Lemmy, so the transition was pretty seamless (actually, more seamless than it would've been sticking with Reddit, since I left over the API shit, which would've forced me over to their half-baked app).
The only thing I really miss is the sheer volume of users, especially in more niche communities, but the posts on Lemmy imo tend to be more quality over quantity than Reddit, so that helps.
banning you for participating in other subreddit they think are bad.
This happens on Lemmy too. Power Tripping Mods aren't exclusive to Reddit.
Sure, but the community would immediately make a new NintendoHelp community on another instance. We have a low tolerance for that kind of BS.
People made alternative subs on Reddit for that very reason, too. They just were more likely to be buried by the other, bigger subs.
which requires me to use revanced reddit now
Actually it doesn't require you to do shit. You can just not use Reddit.
i have the perfect solution, but it might be a tad extreme: don't use reddit. BAM. there it is.
This also exists on Lemmy
True, but at least on Lemmy you can switch instances. Or switch to PieFed, or use any other media that supports activitypub.
Reddit is reddit. You can't just go on another platform and "connect" to a subreddit.
I am outright abrasive and hostile to .ml mods for their tankie lies and .world mods for their Nazi bootlicking, and despite having many posts and comments removed I have not been banned from a single community as far as I can tell.
I've been banned from communities on completely different instances for things I've said that clearly personally offended some powermod or another.
Haven’t seen what you’re talking about for .world, if anything I still think it’s too leftist
At least on Lemmy it's mostly one part of it, and honestly being banned from that part is probably a good thing
but the amount of moderations and filters is much more oppressive on reddit. politics is usually the ones that get people banned on both platforms
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The Nintendo community here is no better. I got banned for the same reason here on Lemmy.
Which community banned you?
in my case it was public freakouts, I was just commenting on the front page to get karma up on an alt and that one was there so I commented (was old but I never posted/commented just kept using my main account with my full unqiue firstandlastname as my username lol) Eventually realized I should maybe not do m that because multiple irl had come up to me saying theyd seen a post or comment.
Whats odd Is I dont rememebr being banned, like I remember seeing that sub on my main account still on the front page.
I did look through my history and found out I had been banned from that sub 3 months before, odd af that they instaban and don't just stop you from seeing or commenting there instead since they clearly monitor and see all.
IDK I have ADHD and don't feel like digging through my history to find it, but it was the main one with the most subscribers.
Wait you got banned, on Lemmy, for belonging to two lemmy Nintendo groups? I am highly doubtful.
[…] please delete all of your participation in the subreddit in question (regardless of if it is positive or negative) […]
So it’s guilt by association.
So they have a bot check to see if you've posted in a sub they don't like, which then auto-bans you if it finds you there.
The thought police are unpaid volunteers using bots now, I guess.
they also have something called crowd control , which limits the amount of traffic, or whoever is posting on the sub.
Ive been on it for over 15 years now and in most ways its gotten worse. For one thing there are FAR more bots that are posting and commenting. Quite a few times Im sure replies have been from bots looking for more "engagement" as thats reddits bread and butter. The ads are getting more prolific, with some "hey what do you guys think about x product" becoming more common. The moderation in some areas has gone a bit bananas. I used Redact to erase my comments in all forums and got permabanned in one for doing so because Redact posts a self link. No warning, just a ban. The only thing thats improved is that a lot of trolling a-holes have also been banned so there are less outright vitriol than there used to be. And some of the worst subs are gone. But its not going in a good direction overall.
The bots in the comments of reddit are insane. I swear I've noticed you can't change the vote on them either. If you downvote and scroll away and come back it's back at where it was and your vote is gone.
I wonder how much spez gets paid for that garbage that removes it as a functional social site and puts it squarely in ad media.
This particular example isn't specifically a reddit problem; it's a power tripping moderator problem. A problem that has existed long before Reddit, and will likely always exist on all forms of social media. Even Lemmy. Hell, we have a couple communities specifically to point out instances of admin/mod power tripping.