• SheenSquelcher@lemm.ee
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    19 days ago

    Ive been on Reddit for 10 to 15 years. Its always been a strange place but ive never seen anything like what’s going on at the moment.

    • weird rules (like ‘Luigi’) being applied system-wide without being communicated
    • automated actions applied to individual users site-wide, like allowing them to engage but preventing them from creating posts anywhere
    • over zealous mods. I’m assuming a lot of mods got sick of it and left over the last few years and those doing the work are under experienced. Or maybe just AI. Its possible.
    • GPTs engaging in posts and comments for training
    • agents from hostile governments agitating and spurring on political discussions that favour their agenda.

    So yeah I’m giving up on it now, its just no fun anymore.

    • mershed_perderders@sh.itjust.works
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      19 days ago

      Yeah, this sure. But I think primarily Reddit doesn’t want its platform to be used to organize and protest. This is how they are setting the stage.

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        19 days ago

        Yeah, this sure. But I think primarily Reddit doesn’t want its platform to be used to organize and protest. This is how they are setting the stage.

        Fixed it for you

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      19 days ago

      I am pretty sure a bunch of mods on big subreddits are actually Reddit employees cosplaying as normal users too.

      Oh, and Reddit is now shadow banning your accounts when you evade a ban on a sub. So now I got all my accounts shadow banned because I ended up commenting on a sub I was banned on one account without noticing it, so I have zero reasons to go back to using reddit anymore. At least before I got a ban and was notified about how long it would take for my accounts to be usable again, now they are shadow banned without any notifications and I have no idea if they will ever go back to normal or not, so fuck it.

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        19 days ago

        I got banned three times in a month, and now I’m finally permanently banned. This is America.

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        19 days ago

        oh yea i know some admins can be the mods. there are 92 mods that own over 500 subs, so i would think they are part of this power group of mods. and then we got the lowly mods of the regular subs. i heard about the blanket shadowbans in another site, they still do that to people who had100s of accts, but it also hit regular people too, that dint even violate a policy, so im thinking its an AI doing all these bannings and so many innocents are just caught up, and they cant even repeal it.