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Reddit is becoming a literal wasteland of dead accounts (lemmy.world)

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When I say dead users, I mean ones who have been banned, suspended, or deleted (probably after they got banned). I see this so often when browsing posts, and it is so reflective of the problems I have been faced with as well. I'll be scrolling through a post, and sometimes unironically like 50% of all comments have the stupid little profile picture with its back turned, and when I hover over it it has either been suspended or deleted.

I have been having major issues where I've basically been permanently wiped off the platform over some bullshit permaban and can't get it appealed, and it is just shocking that so many other people are obviously just getting completely swept away by these same bullshit bans. How is Reddit going to survive like this? It's to the point where any sort of long-term engagement on the site just seems impossible because soon enough the CIA-level, all seeing AI will catch you in its net and then you're done.

Even if they miraculously change their system to not have the world's most oppressive ban system, what happens to everyone who's already been banned? Will a decent percentage of the entire platform just be fucked for life because they were on the platform at the wrong place and the wrong time?

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[-] [email protected] 25 points 4 days ago

I just stopped using Reddit after they broke all the good mobile apps. But your comment makes me think that I should log on and run one of those scripts to overwrite my old comments with garbage.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago

I used this one a couple years ago to poison my comments. Ran it a couple times for good measure.

https://github.com/j0be/PowerDeleteSuite

[-] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

Good luck finding one that works. I ended up spending weeks deleting every one of my comments that I could find by hand. I couldn't even go back more than two years or so, but I did the best I could.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

i actually tried to post some helpful well thought out SME areas in between my shitposting, i did not want to let reddit have any sort of profit off of it no matter how small so i deleted everything. Took about 20 minutes to set up, then ran on its own for an afternoon

i had no issues deleting comments with this https://github.com/Jelly-Pudding/ereddicator?tab=readme-ov-file#instructions-for-windows-users

thread where some others were discussed https://www.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/145x94v/comment/lokzbwv/

[-] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

Thank you! I'll give those a try and see if they can find the stuff I missed.

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