Yep I'm a reddit refugee

I was permabanned for saying "bad bot" to a nazi apologist

Yet when an intimate video of me was being shared without my permission, they apparently couldn't do anything because it breached no rules

Reddit's started it's death spiral. It's all downhill from here. Try starting communities here that don't exist yet and crosspost stuff

My pet theory is that Reddit is trying the battleship steel approach. Let me explain: Battleships sunk before the end of WWII are special, in that their steel has never been exposed to the radiation from nuclear blasts. That is important in a series of applications, so there is a market for that kind of steel, and obviously it's a very limited resource.

Reddit has one of the biggest collections of purely human-generated text that is not domain-specific. That is an incredibly valuable resource, especially now that we know that LLMs hallucinate worse if they are fed LLM-generated content.

I am thinking Reddit is planning to sell that text for the long haul, until changes in language and technology make the content irrelevant. What actually happens on the platform is not important anymore, as long as it doesn't cause the ire of the powerful.

In fact, at this point, Reddit has a vested incentive in making the Internet worse, which means banning real humans from Reddit, too. Current Reddit content is not valuable, because of course it contains lots of bot generation, so making it visibly worse is a quick way to make the old content more valuable.

Basically, the company plans on getting rich on the backs of yesterday's you and I.

Why is this surprising?

There is a life cycle to social media.

Reddit is approaching Myspace levels of out-of-touch. But that's to be expected. Reddit sold out and went public corporation. That means everything that they do is 100% centered around making profit for shareholders. A board of rich assholes listen to the same tech assholes that killed off every single other media platform in existence. Why? To make a buck. To squeeze the penny so hard, at the expense of content, users, posts, subreddits, that the penny squeezes out an extra $0.0000001.

Content is ruined, but who cares? Another nerd will come along and make another one. Businessmen don't care about the content of a bunch of randos. They care about gutting everything and selling pieces of it off for as much as possible, then eventually selling it off to a control-freak billionaire.

They banned and nuked all 4 of my accounts ranging from 8yrs to 2yrs old after posting this about 3 weeks ago.

I was banned for talking bad about the current administration, I then deleted my account. Ridiculous stuff.

I don't think greedy pig boy cares, he got his money.

What happens to everyone who's been silenced on that platform is hopefully they contribute to other social media that aren't blatantly pro-fash

They're going to try to push bot traffic, while keeping actual user numbers hidden. Then dump the stock before saying they banned all their users or someone leaks it. Personally I would like an investigative journalist look into their ban system and do a hit piece.

The site 15 years ago was great, yes there was trolling, you could call people a asshat, but it was still a good site. Now none of that stuff flies, no joking alowed, it's like msn comments section. They killed what made reddit great and it was never at the level of 4 chan incels. In fact there quite a few social causes that did some good, all that's gone. It's just regurgitated shit.

It's no small amount of people who have been permabanned and it's happening more and more. Some of the oldest accounts are just gone. I gave up even trying to get around it.

I had my account of 12 years permabanned a few days ago. Never had an issue ever before the other day.

Wasn’t doing anything out of the ordinary.

Reddit wants each sub to be an echo chamber of repeated comments, they basically want to be 2013 Imgur.

Viewing the post and scrolling is the level of engagement that matters to them. That alone generates revenue. Comments better fall in line

At least that’s my two cents. I’m a Reddit Renegade not an admin

This is a bit funny... Reddit wiped any critical thinking from there few years back and the normies were fine... Then they came for the normies and there is nobody left lol

Or some such thing.

Anyways reddit is not a place for discussion anymore, reddit is where the stupid get their programming

Same way fox news does with "conservative" boomer

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Free palest.... Oh got banned.

Yah I've been perma banned over what I don't even know, and Reddit won't even let me make another account, sadly there's more users and specific subreddits there with relevant posts that I want to engage with but I can't. I'm hoping this get worse and worse on reddit so that most of the current users jump ship to lemmy

the overmoderation not by humans is everywhere, I have to watch what I say on tiktok now, things that I thought arent even bad get misinterpreted and not appelaed occasionally and the strikes pile up, while some things that I prob shouldnt have said and should be taken down get appealed and put back up lol

It's also completely crawling with bots, many of the banned accounts were bots.

[Reads all these stories]

Wow, I'm glad I left during the API debacle. Getting banned for an unpopular good-faith post is so frustrating, especially if it's about something important like Gaza.

Not only that but if you use Reddit Enhancement Suite you can only view 100 posts before they all start duplicating. It's enough to make people like me leave the site.

And yet Ghislaine Maxwell’s account isn’t banned…

I left and deleted my account. My content should have been deleted, and not useable for AI training, but who knows.

I’m permabanned for signing in on public WiFi, and since that’s enough to get you kicked off now, I doubt they’ll have many actual human users much longer. It’s like they just want bots, and no one real.