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[Vent] Reddit is not very friendly to me or to disabled people, it feels (piefed.social)

submitted 6 months ago by wendyz@piefed.social to c/autism@lemmy.world

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I hate to post about Reddit on a non-Reddit platform, but come on! Reddit is super overrated, like they delete and downvote every post and comment I make whereas no one does that here. One time, they told my friend who happens to be autistic, LGBT, and a fictionkin that she "might as well just kill herself", though that got removed, thankfully, and they call me stupid and delete my post and talk about what a stupid question it is that no one can answer when I, who is autistic, ask a question on why someone acts a certain way or why society has to be a certain way. I'M AUTISTIC. I DON'T GET QUESTIONS THAT COME NATURALLY TO EVERYONE ELSE AND I ASK QUESTIONS THAT NO ONE THINKS OF. MY BRAIN WORKS DIFFERENTLY, MR. REDDITOR!!!

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[–] TheGingerNut@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 6 months ago (3 children)

I left reddit after the reddit blackout happened. Permanently. I didn't purge my old posts but… I'm gone and not returning until the blind community forgives them. (API changes, lots of non seeing moderators lost their ability to interact with the site. There was a blackout in protest and reddit used it for routine maintenance)

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[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 4 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I removed my posts on several occasions and they showed up when not logged in. their process for removing posts just seem to hide your own posts from your login from what I can tell.

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[–] grue@lemmy.world 1 point 6 months ago (1 child)

I think if you did it quickly when it first became popular, they were actually purged. Later, Reddit implemented countermeasures.

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[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 1 point 6 months ago

I think it did kinda work at first as I did do it several times but I think they restored from some sort of backup and then went to the just hide it from your logged in user.

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