Yesterday, I got off a 3-day ban where I said in reply to a comment about how I said "it should have taken him too" in regards to how it looked like RFK Jr had a stroke in an image of an article. So that was 3 days ban, uncontested. Then, just under an hour ago, I got a 7-day ban for an inoffensive comment similar in vein.

So I guess it's a no-no to talk of "leaders" of departments who condemn people's lives to suffering by ill advice and beliefs. Talk about bending that knee, Reddit. The place has been utter shit. I'm probably going to end up getting a permanent ban when I return when I shit on another right-wing politician.

Yeah, yeah, neg me all you want. I don't care of your feelings. I've learned that it's okay to let politicians dick the lives of millions around up to and including unaccounted deaths. But a little wishful stroke to one politician is "wrong".

it seems to be mostly LLM generated/vibeshit, but it kinda works. pretty buggy though. it fetches reddit's json api and renders it onto layout based on old.reddit's one.

the addon on addons.mozilla.org says it requires firefox 143, but after changing minimum version requirement on manifest.json it seems to work just fine on firefox 140.13.0 esr. also, the README says it needs a logged-in session, but it works for me without logging in.

https://discuss.tchncs.de/pictrs/image/752cada4-a5ca-4b73-8411-01447cda1bfe.png

Same on phone and different desktop browsers.
Additionally, anonymous access to regular reddit.com is blocked for me on mobile.

I deleted my account and was in read-only mode for since they switched from old design. Now encountered this for first time. Time to abandon my habits

That's the symptom of enshittification I hate the most: killing access for users without account

I know most of you want to answer IGNORE REDDIT!!, WE ARE SO MUCH BETTER!!, USE ONLY THE FEDIVERSE!! which I do, but there are several problems with it:

the fediverse sometimes looks like a cult, only a marxist one: China and Russia are good, there are concentration camps in Ukraine, Ukraine belongs to Russia, like Taiwan belongs to China, Israel is a genocidal state, China is so much better than the US...

Some mods on lemmy show the same level of intolerance as some mods on reddit.

I stopped using reddit years ago but I still lurked because some communities there, mostly the non ideological ones, don't have an alternative: on lemmy there are so many subs with absolutely no content, or one post written 4 years ago, 20 users and 1 visitor per month. That's not an active community.

reddit won't stop its enshittification but for the time being there is no alternative for the communities I'm interested in, mostly non ideological ones about medicine, nursing, philosophy, religion, dementia, autism, biology...

And I'm not looking for communities were medicine, biology or dementia are used as an excuse to rant against the current POTUS or to introduce me to the greatness of communism, I really only care about the topics I mentioned.

For some websites that require a log in I use archive.ph but I don't see how this would work with reddit.

Any ideas? I'm not creating an account with reddit.

I go to old.reddit.com and it keeps getting turned into the new version. Is it just me?

Tried posting after not using reddit for almost 3 years since there's something that I wanted to tell a bigger audience about. Well I didn't have the minimum karma to post there so I begrudgingly find some posts to comment in. Everything is going smoothly but then I mentioned using Lutris to game on Linux and got downvoted to hell making it impossible to post in the sub then the mods deleted the post anyway. I tried posting in some other bigger subs and one wouldn't let me post at all because I mentioned a discord server (the thing I wanted to plug) and the other my post for removed. I was able to post in one niche sub related to the discord server and got 12 upvotes. Fuck reddit.

Hell even askscience and askhistorians started going that way.

As I write this I literally have a script ( https://github.com/j0be/PowerDeleteSuite ) running deleting all posts and comments I made so I can delete my accounts and leave them with nothing. The last couple of days they have been prompting people to provide identification documents to access their accounts. This is going to start becoming more prevalent on platforms. I always hated the site but that's crossed the line for me. So purpose of this post is just to give people a heads up while they still have access if they want to remove their data and / or delete the peice of shit from their life once and for all.

Investing.com -- Reddit shares rose more than 11% in pre-open trading Friday following S&P Dow Jones Indices’ announcement that the company will be added to the S&P 500 index.

“We’re proud to be added to the S&P 500, recognizing the growth, momentum, and consistency we’ve established as a public company,” said Drew Vollero, Reddit’s Chief Financial Officer. “Reddit’s raw materials are special, and there is so much potential to continue building great products and scaling profitably. Our focus remains on executing against the many opportunities ahead.”

The social media platform will enter the benchmark index before the market opens on Aug. 18. Reddit will take the place of AvalonBay Communities, which Equity Residential is acquiring.

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/65113208

I hate that is filled with bots and a lot of garbage and brain dead content from tiktok, instascam and fakebook where videos have added music for some reason with crappy edits where they have to "jingle keys" so they won't lose interest. A lot of people post content without a source "Source!? My dreams bro, that's the source" and karma farm, or posts that are clearly fake rage baits and now they combine all of it with AI to create the ultimate slop.

And on top of all they ban and shadow ban accounts without a reason while actual bots get a pass.

A couple of more reasons on why I hate reddit:

1. It's centralized
2. It has lots of bots and owners take no action
3. Lots of creeps and owners take no action
4. They can ban your account for any reason
5. They push ads
6. They train AI models on our content without giving us anything
7. They removed free API access
8. Their app is garbage and so is their website
9. They can remove and reassign subreddit moderators
10. They added karma points
11. Lots of stupid achievements
12. Non-bot new users get easily banned for being suspected as a bot while actual bots pass
13. Their support is garbage
14. They don't listen to the users
15. Garbage algorithm for recommendations
16. Shitty owners
17. Garbage Reddit filters that shadowban
18. Terrible app/website settings
19. Added awards that cost real-life money
20. They sell our data for money
21. They don't care about fake information and AI content
22. Limited settings for subreddits
23. Reddit Premium
24. Avatar customization that costs real-life money
25. Limited accessibility for disabled people (there were apps that were accessible, but they charged money for the API so they shut down, and Reddit didn't implement those features)
26. AI search in Reddit
27. Ads disguised as normal content
28. Buggy app/website
29. Pushing games
30. Lack of new features
31. Private messages can be read
32. Specific content can be deleted without reason and removed without prior notice
33. Personal data is used for automated decision-making, profiling, or AI training
34. Personal data is used for advertising
35. Data may be processed and stored anywhere in the world
36. The stupid "Join the most real place on the internet" banner on the website that appears if you aren't logged in
37. Reddit moderators (most of them)
38. Reddit's garbage rules
39. A lot of reposts
40. A lot of AI posts
41. They remove my comments without a reason
42. Reddit bots
43. Changing the UI often and mostly for the worse
44. The owners are greedy bastards
45. A lot of the community is garbage and supports a lot of AI slop content and/or fake information
46. Hard to get API access
47. They don't center my PFP, those bastards
48. "We have encountered an error" — WHICH ONE?
49. Automatically saving my comments or posts to drafts
50. THEY KEEP CHANGING AND REMOVING STUFF FOR THE WORSE

So i admit i should've researched a bit, but i've used a service called redact to delete some old, embarrassing, and political comments.

Saw users use it years ago and thought i'd use it too since deleting each and every comment manually is a pain in the ass.

Just then i receive multiple bans on several different subreddits. Then a site wide ban for "spam".

Decided to delete it.

Weeks later i wanted to create an account again and they just ban every account i make.

It says "JOIN THE MOST REAL PLACE ON THE INTERNET"

Its somewhere between sickeningly lazy and has to be a bad response to the amount of bots and lack of people. Surreal is the word I'm looking for maybe.

What a low

Well, I guess they don't want me lurking anymore. Good bye, Reddit. We had some good times.

(For context, I cannot scroll more than 3 posts before Reddit asks me to install the app and there isn't a way to clear that screen.)

This is happening now in Australia, you scroll for a few screens and then a full page display with no other option than "Install Reddit App" appears. Back paging resets the page to the "everywhere" setting.