along with the strong censoring that has occurred on reddit throughout the years, they have now removed r/all from the app and while using a desktop/laptop browser. instead of being able to stumble upon new subreddits you never knew existed, it wants to curate what you’re allowed to see
Didn’t they do the opposite of this before? Like, there were default subs, then that went away and replaced with All, right?
Yeah atheism was default for a long time i think?
That’s what convinced me to make an account.
Yeah I would not admit that, but you do you.
Admit to making a reddit account 15 years ago to filter out a toxic community full of rage comics flooding the frontpage?
Because that’s what we should be ashamed of.
Ah okay. Thought you meant you made a reddit account to subscribe to r/atheism. My bad.
Oh yeah - totally on the same page, then. That place was a toxic hellhole.
Initially there were no subs, then the main page got hidden behind /r/all and people were allowed to create their own subs, and the frontpage got replaced with whatever you subbed to.
Those were the good times, when the site was small enough that people helped a kid out to do his homework.
Even if you are trying to just look at your own feed fully half of what you see if just random ass subs absolutely loaded with bot accounts pushing right wing bullshit and product placement.
r/popular is what they are trying to push, reddit wants people to visit old posts you already saw earlier
Oops! All ads
As it stands Lemmy is still a worse platform all around. It has the same issues Reddit has but without the massive userbase and the niche communities.
That’s a bold statement to say here.
I mean is it? Outside of tech and privacy, Lemmy doesn’t have much to offer compared to Reddit. I don’t think that’s controversial
Then why are you here? If you want to masturbate to Reddit take your dick back to Reddit.
What’s nice about here is a double edged sword. I can tell you to go fuck yourself and nothing will happen. Unfortunately I still have to read your drivel knowing nothing will happen. It’s kind of nice in a way.
Lol imagine getting this pissy over this
Then why are you here?
Because I don’t like corporate Reddit. I still occasionally use it to follow the NBA, but that’s about it.
You don’t like Corporate Reddit but you like Decentralized Reddit, while complaining about how much better Corporate Reddit is on Decentralized Reddit.
It’s really not complicated. Reddit as a community is simply superior to Lemmy in every way. The user base is massive so the content is endless and there’s communities for everything no matter how niche. However, at the same time, Reddit as a platform is worse than most lemmy instances because it’s a giant unethical corporation.
I’ve been banned twice this week (so far).
One for pointing out there will be a rise in terrorism against the US for their actions in the middle east.
Another one for saying Pam Bondi is such a hated public figure she’s never going to be safe in public again.
Neither of these comments violate any rules. They are not calls to violence.
I know how to circumvent Reddit’s methods for keeping banned users off their platform and I know how to check if I’ve been shadowbanned. Most people don’t. So they’re undoubtedly bleeding users at this point due to their automated bot banning garbage. People must be getting auto-banned left and right for things that are clearly not violating policy. And those people aren’t going to come back. I know how to come back and I’m almost done with putting the minimal effort into it.
Reddit is crashing HARD. And I’m totally into it.
I know how to circumvent Reddit’s methods for keeping banned users off their platform and I know how to check if I’ve been shadowbanned. Most people don’t.
Bro can you tell me please 🥺
im somewhat surprised they dint shadowban you. they were purging and shadowbanning all last year, they mustve stepped back on that after realizing they were losing too many irl users. now its just mostly BOTS, or propaganda.
I’ve been banned so many times over there. And I’m not saying this as if I’ve ever done anything to try to be banned over there. The vast majority of the time when I have been banned it’s been because the moderators of certain subs COMPLETELY misinterpreted what I had been trying to say and banned me and then when I contacted them to try to explain the misunderstanding they’ve refused to accept that there was actually a misunderstanding.
Some VERY popular subs have really bad moderators.
I had 12 years on reddit, started catching bans (maybe 1 was legit, and I mean maybe), but after the last one, I deleted. They even gave me a space to put “fuck reddit, fuck spez” for my parting message, and I meant it from the bottom of my heart.
It’s actually really hard to come back.
I tried a number of ways, but they have always detected me within hours
But aside from using a completely fresh device ,a good vpn, and making entirely new emails …they will detect you right away
It’s easy to get banned from subs, but it’s very hard to get banned from Reddit as a site. You have to go out of your way to either be extremely bigoted, obnoxious, or do something illegal for that to happen.
I got my account and all my alts permabanned site-wide for calling someone “A fucking piece of human garbage” because they advocated for not only that Trans people don’t deserve rights but doesn’t care if they kill themselves, calling it “a good thing”.
So my account got banned. My porn alt which never got even a warning since I made it years ago? Banned. I make a new account now and so much as upvote a post on a subreddit I’ve never seen in my life? Instantly and automatically permabanned.
So if calling someone a piece of garbage for advocating for the violence and death of trans people, according to you, is “extremely bigoted, obnoxious, or something illegal”, maybe you might need a little introspective thought about your own reality.
Or you’re the bigoted and obnoxious person that doesn’t get banned from reddit for spouting hate. Because I went back and checked a week after I was permabanned before deleting the account? The user who advocated for Trans people to die was still commenting days later. Didn’t receive a single day.
But keep defending Reddit.
I called Tim Walz a “spineless fuck” for saying that he would never seek elected office again. Banned from a sub I was active in daily. Apparently you can’t have opinions on public figures if there are bad words involved.
That’s a sub. Not all of reddit.
I get it, but it was still annoying. Straight to perma ban. I tried to appeal it, pointing out that I had broken no rules and they just muted me. I legitimately don’t think anyone reported my comment, just some mod who likes the guy decided to ban me. It was horseshit.
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Naw the auto bans are site wide. If you have a few of the auto bans it permas you. As he mentioned the auto bans trigger on non rule breaking comments mostly in relation to the idea of violence. And the appeals process is absolute shit. I said something like “you can’t just punch a person in the face if you don’t like what they say” and got the auto ban (and perma because I had been banned before for similar). I appealed and got a response saying it had been reviewed and my comment was not rule breaking. My perma ban didn’t go away and so I appealed again and my ban request got denied even though the reason for my ban was overturned. Reddit just wants happy positive and capitalism promoting content tbh.
I got a 3 day ban for saying Iran’s elementary schools were being bombed in response to someone claiming that only the IRGC were targeted. Not exactly extreme.
I made a joke about how if everyone says that cats are invasive species and should never be let outside, we should do the same with white people.
Banned in seconds. Is my joke terribly funny? Eh, marginal at best. Is it that offensive? Maybe only if you’re extraordinarily thin skinned.
Poe’s Law. There are always too many people who will take it seriously and act in “retaliation”. If they think someone is at all likely to use what you said as a justification for stochastic violence, they will bend over backwards to interpret it as uncharitably as possible.
Because they’re stupid and they suck.
FWIW I like the joke. White people are indeed an invasive species, and my ethnicity is one of the ones labeled “white” so I would be detained too. By all means, send me to Poland. Force Europe to accept me as a citizen on the basis of my ancestry.The funny part is that I’ve said something of a similar nature in the past. Nobody cared about the white people part, but OMG did they get up in arms that I let my cat outside. You want to rustle some jimmies, tell someone that your cat ate a bird. The pitchforks and torches are coming…
Didn’t seem that hard to me. 16 year old account. Poof. I was pretty careful and certainly didn’t advocate for violence although I did point out that violence was likely.
Reddit is censored and bottled so as to be a propaganda machine. It got too popular. As the go to it was inevitable that the powers that be would co-opt the platform into an American propaganda tool. It’s blatantly obvious too.
It’s easy to get banned from subs, but it’s very hard to get banned from Reddit as a site.
Not really. I didn’t tone down what I said in my previous comment. The two things I got banned for this week are exactly what I said in my comment above. Very short comments not violating any rules. Banned.
I also determined they’re handing out auto-bans for certain word combinations. I had a few accounts banned for mentioning the “2nd amendment” coupled with a few other terms in the same comment. Was very careful not to violate any actual site rules, especially after the first ban involving those words. I was pretty sure about this after a few bans, then I saw a whole comment chain of people talking about it as well and that confirmed my theory.
My last shadowban was a comment that literally just said “Mussolini and Gaddafi”. That’s it. Shadowbanned. You can always tell you’ve been shadowbanned cuz it’ll start telling you that you have to wait between posting comments. Then you can go to Reddit’s appeal page and if you can appeal, it means you’ve been shadowbanned. Or you can use the 3rd party shadowban checker website. And obviously your comments will stop being upvoted/downvoted or commented on because no one can see them.
And it’s not like they’re catching up to me a day or two later and determining I circumvented their bans. Some of my accounts last months and months. They always all get banned based on a single comment.
Nah. Reddit is going full shitshow and supporting the rise of fascism in America by censoring users who aren’t even breaking rules. If you’ve been on Reddit long enough, you know the leadership is awful and they’ve been consistently making bad decisions for the platform for years now.
I’ve always said it and I’ll keep saying it. It’s their platform and they can run it like they want. But I believe the “Frong Page Of The Internet” has a responsibility that extends beyond themselves. And, of course, if they choose to keep making shitty decisions, they’re going to keep losing users and we’ll keep seeing an increase in Lemmy activity.
Actually you can get banned for being too good at accumulating karma
I got a sitewide ban for bot like behavior
I got perma banned for saying I hope the US and China burn each other down in their economic war.
You have to go out of your way to either be extremely bigoted
looks at all the alt-right subs and the fascist users
Uhhhh…
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Like 90% of the site is pro Palestine, what are you talking about?
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You have to go out of your way to find subs that are pro Israel. The only major ones that I can think of are mapporn and worldnews.
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Dude, you’re on Lemmy, not Reddit.
Take your ass back to the sinking ship.
I got banned for posting combat footage of Hamas attacking IDF soldiers in Gaza to r/combatfootage The reason cited was spread to terrorist propaganda video. Reddit wide ban with no recourse followed.
There were times, when you could still post primary sources on Reddit. It’s no longer possible.
I got 2 sub bans for participating in subs the mods didn’t like.
Then a week ago I got banned for promoting self harm. I did not, ai had a false positive, but they still haven’t responded to my appeal. I guess I’m kicked out for good.
Like replying to a Muslim woman that I thought her rationale that the bloke who disarmed one of those Bondi shooters and didn’t use it on him was because of his interpretation that his religion is one of peace?
That’s what I got permabanned for. Which one is that, extremely bigoted, obnoxious or illegal?
I mean it’s not, but I was just making the point that often times the people who complain about getting banned are usually justifiably banned for doing things like calling for violence or being racist or trying to do something malicious. That doesn’t there aren’t exceptions.
There’s a lot of exceptions.
Way too many. I’d be reluctant to claim the numbers are in favour of genuine cases unless I knew better.
Using a direct link stopped working today and redirects to your subscriptions. The only reason I looked at Reddit was to go to r/all and sort by new to see what was out there.
Reddit slowly migrated away from being informational, to being identity based political vitriol. Want to know what’s currently happening with the president outside of biased left and right wing media? Too bad, but here’s an unflattering picture of him playing golf that we can all rage at, or get banned from 5 different subreddits at once because you don’t agree all cops or landlords are “bad”.
I’ve quit it for all except my reading and writing communities at this point, and only because I haven’t found anything comparably sizable. If and when I can, I will be trying to help build up alternatives for those, though. Fuck reddit.
Same for me, I only visit a few niche subs that haven’t gotten traction here and even that I do with decreasing regularity.
same dude, same. reddit.com/r/All still works, or old.reddit.com/r/all, but it seems its no longer showing hottest/latest content. its all old stale content now
I was afraid of that. I still occasionally browsed r/all on my PC after work. I’m not interested in their latest or popular pages. I’m tired of algorithms deciding what I should read or watch.
Just let me discover stuff, damn. :(
The techbros: No.
reddit.com/r/All can still get you to the r/all page, but its all old stale content now and no longer updating
Seems to work in RedReader so far.
Old.reddit.com in the browser also still works normally, only new reddit in browser doesn’t. And what kind of masochist would use new reddit over old reddit
Still working as of posting.
Old Reddit is better.
I selfishly hope they remove that too. I was booted from Reddit a few weeks ago and now I can only browse old /r. If there is no old /r, then there is no Reddit for me, which would end up being a good thing.
I was still in that position last year so I get it. Saying I’d never go back if old reddit got shuttered. Don’t even really have advice because I think my disgust with the platform eventually became strong enough to override my* habitual urge to keep visiting reddit on the regular.
That’s all it is, isn’t it? Habitual.
A double sided blade within the human condition yep.
Can barely even run their bloated modern interface without my tablet browser crashing, old is the only reliable way to use it.
The modern web is so incredibly shit. I shouldn’t need a high end device to browse a web page.
it heats up the phone to, plus scrolling and backspacing seems to increase the burden on your phone, tablet.
I shouldn’t need a high end device to browse a web page.
Some pages, maybe, I could understand. Perhaps an online game or something like google docs.
But you should NOT need a high-end device to browse a web page of a fucking forum. (Guys, the modern internet was a mistake, let’s go back to phpbb.)
You’d better start believing in old Internet forums… you’re in one!
Which is why I like lemmy
Since the enshittification of most “free” (as in: “you’re the product”) search engines, I’ve always had to do “[search term] + reddit” to get unsponsored, not AI-slop search results. Off topic, but still.
Firefox with the UDM14 plugin, and Google doesn’t give me that ai crap anymore.
Google doesn’t give me that AI crap anymore because I don’t use Google anymore.
Fair. I didn’t realize how embedded into my life I’ve let those fuckers get until I started looking into de-Googling. So for me it’s gonna be a slow process, but I’ll get there! Recently repurposed an OpenWRT One (a banana pi in a branded case, basically, for those who don’t know) into a home server to start learning about self hosting, which I expect will help immensely on my quest.
Honestly, I still use Google Docs, just because it’s incredibly useful for collaborating with normies without needing to get them to sing up for new shit. And because certain parts of my routine workflow are pretty dependent on it.
But Google Search? I haven’t used Google to search for anything for … well, for years now. Duck Duck Go works fine. It also tried to have AI bullshit, but at least it lets you turn the AI bullshit off easily and permanently.
Not sure how good reddit is for that half the time now tbh
you see half of reddit is mostly AI/ or bots. you arent missing much.
yeah I don’t even bother with adding it to search terms anymore
Then you have AI generated web pages turning up now, giving advice that could result in death if you followed it with foraging info.
curate what it wants to show you
Ads. This means ads.
And communities that are moderated by that lady that worked with Epstein and Trump to rape all those kids for all those years
In their path of killing their own brand, amazed they didn’t yet fuck over Old Reddit’s RSS feeds, or even ax those completely.
Because nobody uses RSS anymore, and those who do won’t be part of the target demographic they’re trying to hook.
I can’t wait to see what beloved institution Steve Huffman decides to ruin next
They screwed with it when they decided you can’t see NSFW posts anymore, and they decided anything (comics, humor, opendirectories) can be NSFW
Old Reddit still works normally for that too, though likely due to lack of updates instead
The problem with old.reddit is that it had this Damocles sword hanging over it for almost a decade - it could stop working any day. Plus, many subs don’t even cater to old.reddit anymore. It doesn’t just magically take over sidebar blurbs, this has to be done manually by mods. Etc. etc.
Well, thankfully we’re all here now.
reddit/spez probably knows the APP and the new UI is shit , probably why they havnt changed it yet. dont think they even improved the new one at all, if you are using it on your phone/tablet/
I’d be willing to guarantee that any Reddit employee uses the old interface when utilizing the site themselves.
they likely have a very small moderation staff, they let AI do all the “indiscriminate” banning. and its only the actual admins can unban people, which they ignore most appeals anyways.
Not to worry, it’s on their roadmap
Still works in Reddit Sync (with the Revanced hack).
Continuum too, but I believe that’s because these apps use old.reddit, from which they haven’t removed r/all yet.
It probably still works for you, like it does for my partner but not for me. This change appears to be a gradual rollout.
good, no monopoly on communication is better for all
i like farts
hey, look, a comment that’s higher quality than the average reddit comment
🍑💨 💦
Praise the lard & all tha good things in life.
It still works, but is convoluted. If you add r/All (rrmember to not use r/all, the capitalization matters) to your profile, it still goes there.
or… just not use reddit. Both options work.
