Reddit

I signed up because I was curious, I’m still a mod, and they promised swag. (My subreddit voted against moving over to lemmy and it’s fine, I guess. They’re the only reason I’m still over there at all.)

My final post in r/shadowban because that is the only place I can post. Backstory: 2 years of post, 2 weeks ago I figured out I was shadowbanned from account creation. Several posts in r/shadowban.

I apologize as I didn’t fully get everything. This was just posted 15 minutes ago on Subreddit Drama, and if Reddit decides to delete it, here it is on Lemmy.

Hey everyone,

Reddit’s been pretty hostile to IP and devices associated with me. I haven’t interacted a lot with reddit, but when I did, I chose so because of how big the communities are (mostly TOMT and one 2000s laptop brand community).

This is the main reason I completely ditched Reddit, if you use the new Reddit interface instead of the old one (old.reddit.com), you’ll see a constant request being made to “https://www.reddit.com/svc/shreddit/events” (open your DevTools > Network tab, can’t see on Firefox idk why).

As some of you may know, recently Reddit started using some sort of bot or LLM called Anti-Evil Operations (AEO) to start rummaging through comments and ban users unilaterally. You’ve probably noticed it when you’ve gone through a post and found a long list of removals saying “[ Removed by Reddit ]”. That’s the AEO bot. My own personal experience with that bot is that the ban reasons can be rather assinine.

So I deleted my 5yo Reddit account and migrate to Fediverse, but then I decided to recreate a new Reddit account just to follow some communities that are only popular there.

Obviously a few years ago, the API changes caused the reddit community mods to strike, and caused a mass-blackout of most reddit core communities. Eventually Reddit removed a handful of mod teams on some notable subreddits and caused the rest to chicken-out. But it did birth the Fediverse properly.

Reddit seems oddly quiet these last few days. Its kinda eerie. Posts that would normally generate a ton of comments just have 2 or 3 comments. It feels a bit like a calm before the storm.

"First, we are moving away from subscribers as the measure of community size or popularity. Subscribers is often more indicative of a subreddit's age than its current activity."

I was one of the people who deleted their reddit account when 3rd party apps were being pressured out.

I had my 15yo old reddit account still up which I was only using for outreach for threadiverse in places like /r/redditalternatives etc. Last week I got an email that they found some "suspicious behaviour" (of what? I never use it) and locked it, so I had to reset the password. I visited reddit directly to verify and discovered that it was indeed locked. So I reset my password, so far so good. Set a new password and everything. However when trying to login with the new password, it initially was giving me some rate limiting errors, and afterwards it was claiming "the username or password is wrong". Also looking at my profile shows it has been restricted to 18+ user for some reason (I have nothing NSFW in it).

I’m trying to research more ways to ban evade or punch through moderator mutes on Reddit. One interesting method I’ve discovered is creating a new community with a post targeting the mods of another subreddit, then inviting each mod to become a mod of the new subreddit, where they view the post.

i opened reddit again today because silksong is finally out. went to see how the subreddit is going. (sadly, the silksong communities here are rather sane. r/silksong is still about 40-50% insane, but more sane posts are coming in)

Basically what the title says. I commented on a post and sent a link to my comment to my wife to get her take on the post and my response. To start, the link just takes her to the topic and not my comment. If she tries to find my comment it isn't listed. If she manually goes to my profile and tracks down the comment all it says is "[Removed]". However, from my perspective the comment is still live with 1 view and no activity. I've tried closing my browser, refreshing the page and everything and for me the comment is still visible even on the page for the post. For everybody else though it has been removed.

I’m so confused by how Reddit is being moderated now. I had someone follow me to various subreddits, responding to every comment I made with a particular anti trans slur, (the one that rhymes with “moon”, not sure if I’m allowed to say it here) and a demand that I join the “41 percent” (which basically means “kill yourself.”) I reported their account, just once, and it was the first time I’d ever reported anyone. A few hours later, I was permanently banned for “abusing the report button”. I tried making another account and was instantly banned. The accounts of other people in my household have also been permanently banned, which is the most confusing part of all of it.

I’ve used Reddit for 4+ years and trusted this platform, but now I’m completely locked out of my account.

And so I hopped on and deleted all the comments on that one too. Thanks random password request!

Not plugging the MSN news feed - just pointing out how bad its gotten. Reddit use to be the alternative now its just slop.

I used to love Reddit. Back in the day, it was awesome, you had customizable commands for niche communities and you had enough control over the feed so as to not see bs all the time. My only prior experiences with social media had been Facebook and Twitter so the bar was really low, yet I loved it. Now it's just a horrible site to navigate. I have like 3 communities that make up 80% of my main feeds and for the life of me I can't seem to find a single human. Like all accounts are generic names with the same pattern: quirky writing style, posts and comments like crazy in maybe 3 communities, and is like less than 4 years old. Why? Why does this make sense to them? Who are they serving ads to?

Hi everyone,

Am I right? I just read three Reddit posts. Their formats and writing styles are so similar as if someone just used ChtGpt to mass produce posts

I unthinkingly said "Remember to punch a [not see] if you see one, and have a great day." But, I spelled it out. (I don't want to get banned here, too, because I dunno if that's disallowed here, too.)