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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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.
Sure, but the community would immediately make a new NintendoHelp community on another instance. We have a low tolerance for that kind of BS.
Some people might do that, but then you have two communities with even less users.
People made alternative subs on Reddit for that very reason, too. They just were more likely to be buried by the other, bigger subs.
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.
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.
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
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:
- min karma or account requirement
- absurd 50 rules that trigger auto mod
- shadow banning so new users have 0 response and get demotivated instantly
So aside from smaller subreddits it’s just trolls and bots talking between each other.
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
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
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
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.
posts on Lemmy imo tend to be more quality over quantity
I mean all y’all are generally less likely to be expressing your anal glands on the internet here. I like it.
Always remember Alien Blue. That was a great app until spaz and co bought it.
yea im a ton of niche subs, that isnt on lemmy unforunately,.
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Same same Boost bro :)
Getting rid of Apollo support was my final straw.
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.
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.
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.
Equally ridiculous as the holy war some idiots are leading against the TanKieZ
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
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.
[…] please delete all of your participation in the subreddit in question (regardless of if it is positive or negative) […]
So it’s guilt by association.
TBF that’s happened here, too. However, it isn’t institutionalized like reddit is doing.
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.
Wait you got banned, on Lemmy, for belonging to two lemmy Nintendo groups? I am highly doubtful.
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.
which requires me to use revanced reddit now
Actually it doesn’t require you to do shit. You can just not use Reddit.
I used boost for a solid year and a half after the 3rd party app ban. Now I use Boost for Lemmy.
As a pedant myself, that’s some top notch pedantism.
cheers
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!!!
Thanks, it’s why I’m here
