Really what the hell.....

They ban all of your accounts immediately, at the moment that your speech doesn't confine to their disney worldview.

I am truly done ....

Also, those dictator mods also won't accept any kind of negotiation or offers further explanation.

Uqsually I can't open a god damn post without modified it a millions time. I can't even use AI to fine tune my language (because English is not my first language).

Fucking hell

It's kind of a complicated story, all these events occur within a 48 hour period:

1. I made a comment along the lines of "today we have groups that resemble nazis and need to be armed to say they're bad for our future too"
2. Received a permanent ban, probably related to the word "armed"
3. Appealed that ban
4. Receieved a second permanent ban for "multiple violations"
5. Appeal successful, first ban lifted.
6. Still banned via second ban, no option to appeal.

The second ban, which appears to be referring to the first ban with "multiple violations" still stands, even with first ban's successful appeal and lift.

So is that it? No more Reddit for me?

My Reddit account was recently shadow banned for no apparent reason but luckily I was able to get it unbanned. I now mentioned to one of my Reddit friends that I'm on Lemmy and the comment was removed by Reddit.

Just logged in to my reddit account, now 11 months banned. Haven't been logged in on the site in nearly 6 months.

When I first got sniped by a bot and bounced out last October, I went through and manually deleted what WAS available at the time. The prior 12 months of my comments and all my posts. (everything older than 12 months is archived and unavailable - that change went through a few months before the IPO and I'd been a member since 2010 - so there's a lot of my content I can't get to anymore.. ) Cleaned out what I could, but would get the occasional bot-reply so rather than deleting the account, I decided to let it sit and just flit through on occasion so if the random new reply to an old comment would show up, I could get at it, and delete it.

So back to now.. I just logged in and can see the comments I made TWO years ago. I've scrolled back to check and it looks like it's going back even further.

Seems to me that even though the account is banned, the system is acting like facebook and digging up, and putting up what content it can find, into the Overview page for the account, under new. It wasn't doing this 6 months ago. Something's changed.

This is great, as I can now get at my vintagemac posts and copy them out.

Consider not deleting your reddit account if youve been banned and have technical shit up. Just clear out what you don't need, and copy out what you can add on lemmy.

Ooooo, I have my work cut out for me in the next few weeks.

Started with old reddit being blocked if you don't sign in. I stopped using Reddit with an account years ago when they banned me for no good reason after I'd spent months building a subreddit that was attracting users (was a state specific sub that wasn't NSFW or selling anything.)

I had gotten around the old reddit ban by using a VPN. At first not every state had this ban on old reddit. Last week that changed. Now every place seems to not allow old reddit unless signed in.

Fine, I'll use new reddit. My god it sucks. It's designed to show you ads every other post. Videos autoplay which lags out some of us users machines/connections. I gave up trying to use it. Tried the app, even with protections turned on it was constantly spying on me so I uninstalled it. Plus the app sucked just as bad as new reddit does.

Since Google search results almost always include a reddit post I still occasionally click on one. I noticed now that anytime I click on one and nav to new reddit then try to click back the page lags for upto 30 seconds. Clicking back more doesn't speed it up. It freezes up. I have to close the tab and start the search over again.

Reddit is death spiraling. That was what pushed me to signup on Lemmy. I suspect we'll see more converts in the coming months.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/51436906

https://www.business.reddit.com/blog/takeaways-from-canadas-finance-breakfast

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/reddit-for-business_the-future-of-finance-marketing-will-be-shaped-activity-7465023983567122432-NxP-/

Daily reminder that you can't trust commercial social media.

Fucking loathe what reddit has become.

Deleted my account. So now I'm down to just Lemmy.

Seriously, I could see myself just getting off the Internet entirely, it's just bots and awful anyway.

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/65992098

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.

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.

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

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

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.