The mods at r/popculture pointed it out. And then the screenshot above.
The subreddit drama
Legit question -not tryna start shit/trigger intentionally: has this kind of reddit response ever happened before? Ive been on reddit for the past 10+ years, but as a comfy lurker. I remember “internal” reddit issues when the 3rd party thing was a thing.
(Quotes bc, from my POV as a lurker/casual user, the upset regarding reddit nixing 3rd party was too meta for me to really understand beyond “this is bad for reddit users”)
I’ve gained enough info by casual usage-proxy to move over to lemme. But ngl, im not grasping the magnitude of why “reddit is bad now”. I dont disagree, but i couldnt explain on my own to an outsider why i agree with that sentiment.
Obviously, censorship is bad mmmkay - I’m not questioning this. I have a gut feeling that making the switch and getting my global info from the fediverse is a good call. I just can’t express why, and am requesting assistance from the community’s exp in how I can express that. This seems line as good a topic ad any for a platform to discuss the matter.
TL;DR - ELI5 why current reddit is bad, assuming I have no bias. Because I don’t, other than like minded community opinion telling me it’s bad now. I’d like to be able to express to others why, should the opportunity present itself.
Some quick points:
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blocked off API access (last I checked you could get around this by paying an exorbitant fee 🙄) meaning 3rd party apps don’t work and you absolutely must use the official app which is garbage and collects all kinds of data from what I’ve heard (never used it) as well as disabling services that do stuff with reddit data from the API such as mass delete scripts users would use to get their content off reddit
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fertile ground for bots and bad actors to manipulate, misinform and recruit users into alt-right and other spaces that perpetuate harm
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moderation policies and practices that allow and in some cases encourage Nazi shit while blocking or restricting harm reduction, LGBTQIA+, anti-fascist, etc topics
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massive astroturfing and dis/misinfo campaigns
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flagging the word “Luigi” for violent content with automod and giving people warnings for upvoting content that goes against preferred narratives
And certainly more that I’m forgetting
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If you talk about the Founding Fathers, specifically regarding treatises on violence. The Tree of Liberty was an autoban for at least a decade now.
it wasnt that bad before, trumps 1st term, then every sub became extremely sensitive to many topics, and politics started to infilitrate a ton of subs(you have the bots to thank for it) this is just the latest result of it. this last election, reddit went to overdrive to ban anyone. i found myself moving between different acc, to seperate the accounts liability to potential bans(acct for specific niches).
I was there for 14 years. I never heard of some shit like that.
Same here man and neither have I
There’s going to come a point when the things we can’t say may need to be said. A time when the message is delivered with blank comments.
[ . . . ] will carry a message of it’s own that becomes much more difficult to ban.
The way things are going these corpo social media shill ops will be just bots talking about shit ruling class feels good about and every person with a normal opinions will be banned.
They then will expect people to mirror the bot’s narrative without engaging because they think we are this stupid lol
you cant eve say black person or demographic without getting reported in many cases, so i just use AA abreviate instead, when referring to the people most hurt by gop and economic policies.
Reddit’s strategy is to replace all users with AI bots rented from Elon.
they saw how the META android zuckerberg did, use AI harvest “Dead accounts” Facebook and drive the engagement.
Reddit has gone full fascist. Wow. Never thought I’d see the day.
I did. I left more than a year ago after I was permabanned for asking a question about whether someone would be banned if they asked certain things. Fuck those guys. I hear Digg is coming back though.
oh, reddit doesnt allow discussion of reddit ban in most cases.
Sounds a lot like Nazi Germany, or Lenin’s & Stalin’s USSR.
spez does love musk and trump
The cuck CEO loves Elon and is an enthusiastic meat rider.
Nothing wrong with being meat rider mate, catch on with the times.
I believe it is the fact that it’s Elon’s meat that makes it’s an issue. No one should do that.
Yes being a CEO is the bad part here!
Pains me to say, but Reddit can eat my ass.
Pain in the ass?
Well that means they’re afraid. We’re not calling for anything violent we’re just calling out what we see. It’s a shame that Reddit went red. #boycottreddit
Just switched to Lemmy for this exact reason! Got banned for god knows why and immediately deleted Reddit.
Ah, they’re now mini-zampolit for the reddit admins.
I just made the switch to lemm.ee so I think I might just “incite violence” and nuke my account. Good riddance.
My 11 year old account, very active account, was recently banned from reddit but I’m not sure why. They deleted the comment so I’m not sure what it said. But I’ve been posting there for 11 years with no issues so something has changed.
I believe the comment I made was talking about if the US invaded Canada and I said they would be hard pressed to hold the country because Canadians look like Americans and we would take the battle across the border.
It’s a common sense statement. Doesn’t incite any more violence then quoting half the things Trump says about Canada any given day.
I think Reddit is purging the left leaning accounts and making a Nazi safespace like Twitter.
the amount of posts about trump is pretty obvious which way the site was heading, all the negative press helps trump, and its low effort to. its not about what hes done legislately in most cases, its about some stupid shit he did, like falling asleep or farting.
Easier to conquer a disconnected, uncoordinated, and gagged enemy unable to rally a force united by common messaging and calls to action.
I am not surprised though. Someone with money is now exerting influence because Reddit is the most popular place for the resistance to oligarchy. Oligarchy aim is to own all media and they believe that will be the end of resistance’s ability to spread messages.
The entire stuff going on is too stupid for me. I was using Lemmy for lurking and Reddit for other shit. I’m staying here now.
Luigi Luigi. Luigi Luigi Luigi. Luigi, Luigi Luigi hahaha. Luigi Luigi.
Also acceptable: Aloigi, Aloisi, Aloisio, Lodovico, Ludovico, Alvise, Gigi, Gigio, Gigino, Ginetto, Gino, Luigino, Vico
Luigi Luigi!
Refreshing to see a comment like this. I was dumbfounded when I opened the Reddit thread this morning and found NONE of this. The Reddit of Old is quite dead. Long live the Reddit of Whatever the Fuck this is; or, better yet, platforms like Lemmy.
they enshittified themselves when they enforced the new forever scrolling feature of posts on the site.
Fuck king Krasnov, hail luigi
Just put “luigi” at the bottom of every comment.
Honestly this is a good idea, just overwhelm their review queues
Good. I hope Reddit tears itself apart. After having three accounts banned because I was better at insults than the one trying to haze me I think that site had run its course.
It won’t, it will just complete the transition to a right wing propaganda platform, because right wing chuds are very profitable.
Except I was banned for being right of center.
funny thing theres is no left in us, just center rights like us, even i have some that leaning. but the only left is subs with countries with an actual “left party”
