Reddit

Reddit is really not backing down, huh? Welp slaps knee i guess I'm leaving for good.

Instead of deleting my Reddit account, I’m editing my posts/replies there to all say, “edit: //I’ve moved to lemmy //” By doing this you’re:

1. Denying Reddit your content
2. Telling everyone where you went and
3. Your post Karma stays the same, so a highly upvoted comment of yours stays in the same place in the comment thread.

Reddit is amassing such a clusterfuck of bad decisions lately... 🤦🏻‍♂️

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Schrödingers appeal

They did you a favor

Yep, i was permabanned a week ago because i was all in on this boycott/ Fuck u/Spez. Not looking back, i hope Reddit crashes and burns. They are treating the users like garbage and not needed when we are what makes the site what it is.

Arbitrary enforcement of the rules is the main problem here.

Reddit can be thought of as a three tier hierarchy, in decreasing order of power:

1. Layer 1 is the admins
2. Layer 2 is the subreddit mods
3. Layer 3 is the users.

Now, the admins have the interest of having the mods and users work for them for free to generate contents. To do that, their best interest is to have Layer 2 and 3 constantly in conflict with each other so they won't turn their attention to what's going on in Layer 1, and they can just step in as needed as "the good guys" when things get out of hand.

(Don't say the name of the book please)

The way they did that, is of course, by making a "Layer 1.5", the so called powermods, and promises them arbitrary powers that they can abuse (delete and then repost other's content, blatant karma farming) to have the attention and the hate from Layer 2 and 3 on them instead of Layer 1, and so they can get away with whatever they want for flimsy excuses. (closing source code, shadowbans for real people, quarantine, awards, NFTs, new reddit, etc.)

Previous attempts at leaving reddit (Pao, controversies surrounding other various hate subs) failed because only Level 3 and a few lower member of Level 2 were responsive to the problems, most people are just indifferent and want to have reddit the way it is now, so Layer 1 can just pled ignorance and have people move on.

So, what's different this time? This time both Layer 2 and 3 are collectively moving against Layer 1 for the very first time, and to maintain the illusion of normalcy would require more direct interventions from Layer 1 since playing dumb is no longer an option. Of course, powermods (all around bad person awkwardtheturtle, for example) outlived their usefulness as distraction, so they can now be arbitrarily disposed of as well.

By the way, sync for Lemmy is coming ;)

I saw this post on the front page. Condolences, maybe?

A similar thing happened to me about 3 weeks ago. Yet I have no clue as to why I was banned... just "boke content policy rule" with no explanation of what rule... So I moved on.

My reddit account was 12 years old at this point

I'm guessing that's a big reason why. You know what Reddit used to be like, and that's not where they want it now, so you're more of a liability than an asset. They'd rather grow their userbase with millions of new users who will adapt to whatever shitty platform they're continuing to morph into.

That's fucking ridiculous. Maybe we should all start posting this meme and get ourselves banned.

Reach out to The Verge, they've been covering the Reddit debacle pretty well and I bet they'd love to hear from you.

reddit admins have been going on a purge like ive never seen. welcome to the club!

I was shadow banned by an admin, apparently the masterpiece of spez getting raided by a Garfield with a rack offended someone. 🤔

Now you don't have to scrub your post history.

What's the problem?

It is truly incredible how little it takes to get permbanned on reddit. I posted something in r/politics once that the hivemind didn't agree with, despite being neutral in language, and immediate permban. That is why people keep making accounts over there, they can try and whack-a-mole but you can't stop an idea.

Hell, I got banned for agreeing with a post. And when I complained about it to the mods, they had reddit perma ban my account.

Reddit is slowly going to fall apart. For example, one subreddit i used to like (before THEY banned me) has made it so that only people who are considered "experienced" (whatever the hell that means) on the subreddit are now allowed to post topics.

And the subreddit that banned me would not openly list there moderators.

I don't really care as they have finally soured me on the site permanently. TBH they have done me a solid favour. Reddit is just slowly going to eat itself.

At least they told you you were banned. I was shadowbanned and didn't figure it out for a week.

I like how they permanently banned your account, it's against their rules to make a new account to circumvent a ban, then said "for future reference please read our comment content policy".

They banned me forever for quoting historical facts. It was a 16 year old account. It really did turn to shit.

Anyway, I'm sure degenerates from /r/palestine will contribute much better content to their community.