Reddit has become worse and worse in the last couple of years.
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.
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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.
I mean all y'all are generally less likely to be expressing your anal glands on the internet here. I like it.
yea im a ton of niche subs, that isnt on lemmy unforunately,.
Same same Boost bro :)
I only use it for reviews of products or answers to questions about Linux. But the Linux community is getting stronger here on Lemmy
Lots of activity over at programming.dev
It feels like actual people too. Thats nice.
I totally know what you mean, but it is kinda funny to say you quit cold turkey on a structurally identical platform lol
Tepid pheasant?
frigid poultry.
too icy bird
Getting rid of Apollo support was my final straw.
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.
Some people might do that, but then you have two communities with even less users.
what about the c/europe drama that got locked on c/powertrippingbastards then
On the other hand, it is impossible to be banned from all of Lemmy. Power tripping admins do not exist here.
I wouldn't be so sure. I could point to .ml and BlahajZone. Both have some questionable admins.
.ml is alot worst, because you only need to interact with someone from that instance you get a typical response. i never had a negative interaction on the trans instance.
My issue with the trans instance is that they expect you to behave a certain way in a control freak sort of way, which left a bad aftertaste. They wanted me to sincerely apologize for a fucking light-hearted comment. And I say that as a gay man who knows damn well where the boundaries are.
i try to avoid instances like that eventhough i support lgbtq+ i just had a bad experience on reddit where they mistakingly banned me for saying something they MISCONSTRUED, BUT THEY QUICKLY unbanned because they recognized it wasnt a violaiton lol.
Actually it doesn't require you to do shit. You can just not use Reddit.
As a pedant myself, that's some top notch pedantism.
cheers
Thanks, it's why I'm here
That's some good pedantry, cryptids. Bake em away, toys.
I like that you used the “bake em away, toys” callback on a thread with usernames of Watermelon Albert, Ramen Shaman, and Lousy Corn Muffin.
It sounds like y’all are preparing a potluck.
DON'T PUT MY TOYS IN THEY OVEN!!!!
I used boost for a solid year and a half after the 3rd party app ban. Now I use Boost for Lemmy.
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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Fuck Nintendo.
With a rusty trident.
The Nintendo community here is no better. I got banned for the same reason here on Lemmy.
not surprised. when lemmy got popular all the mods from Reddit created their little communities because power feels good.
Which community banned you?
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.
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.
Wait you got banned, on Lemmy, for belonging to two lemmy Nintendo groups? I am highly doubtful.
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.
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.
that is true, before that i was Y'a answers and a few accounts in particurlarly was lukring in most of the categories, mostly the political ones. i was in a health forum long time ago and a mod had out for me, and kept targeting my post as you can "say black because the mod thinks offensive for black people, and we finding other excuses on other posts to be condescending. the worst one was the forums with the services(long story) they acted like all knowing gods because they been in the services, and started spamming because i was advising another user that the mods were being very rude to her.
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.
Literally r/BannedFromPyonyang behavior
Nintendo fandom is feeling super defensive rn
its called crossbanning, if the mods of a sub feels like another sub is too controversial they will premetively ban you, now with the new reddit filters, your at risk of getting sitewide banned.
famous one is participating j roegan sub, and you get banned from multiple subs, but j rogegan sub is only criticizing him, not fetishsizing his gop support.
If you want to avoid censorship you picked the wrong lemmy instance to join lol
I used to be big contributor on reddit and it's has been completely taken over by power users who are just shilling. Many subreddit mods are actually in bed with businesses and take straight up bribes or have their own conflicting interests.
reddit and large subs have all upped thier filters, so its actually harder to comment in subs that have high traffic. the niche subs are probably safe subs(the rule is if the sub has a sets of rule like the sidebar on lemmy, then you know its monitored heavily.
Yup if you take a look at new posts on any big sub reddit its either bots karma farming or influencers shilling. It's just too hard for new people to onboard on sharing as:
So aside from smaller subreddits it's just trolls and bots talking between each other.
I suspect a lot of mods are actually employed by those companies directly.
they have straight up affiliates they reccomend openly over anyone else like in hosting subs with "deals" for redditors
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.
It's been a thing for years, way before api shitshow
Yep joined lemmy around API controversy. It's been like 2 years on lemmy for me. Loving it
I created a new account to post in my regional swinger subreddit and it immediately got deleted by a power hungry mod. He said my post was low effort at the same time as there was a literal dick pic with the text "hit me up" on the subreddit's front page. I tried to post again with a little more detail but my post never showed up so I messaged the mods directly. They responded a few days later that they had approved my post. Thanks for nothing reddit and reddit mods.
I haven't stopped by any swinging boards in a while but do the mods still like to treat them as personal harems
No clue this just happened a few days ago.
That's not a legit reason to ban someone.
Now if you have an alt and you accidentally comment there without knowing you got banned on another account, you get instantly permabanned across all accounts, like they know you're banned so they'll ban you for upvoting/downvoting content from that sub or posting a comment, yet will still show you that subs content with no warning.
This happened to me. Power tripping mod on my local sub banned me for a months-old comment dumping on some trumptard, had no idea and kept participating on another account, got all my accounts banned site-wide.
It's the new 4chan. lmao
True. Reddit should be banned. It is promoting intolerance, hatred.
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.
This isn't new, and a significant reason that I segmented my alts was so that I didn't comment in "opposing" subs.
This is just an extension of the political ban waves that became huge in 2020 / 2021.
now we saw political ban waves from nov-dec 24, and JAN-april too because of musk and trump. actually it was MUSK that triggered all the massive purges recently, since he complained directly to spez.
unfortunately the bans also included the correctly banned people, not the indiscriminately banned people and they all fled here too.
To be fair, the mass majority of things have gotten worse.
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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.
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.
reddit catered to musk like twice this year alone, thats what led to the purges, remember he complained in januarary and later in april. additionally reddit also have employed more general indiscriminate shadowbannings as well.
Equally ridiculous as the holy war some idiots are leading against the TanKieZ
This has been going on for over a decade.
Remember when fat acceptance was the big fad?
Yeah say one word against donuts in any other sub, and all of a sudden you're banned from 10 others.
I mean fat ppl hate was as weird as jailbait and many others that shouldve never been up in the first place, part of reddits problem is they like that shit and keep it up til it becomes a problem in the news