At the risk of agreeing with Reddit:

Under new rules rolling out over the coming months, a small number of users will be required to leave some of their moderator posts so that they aren’t moderating more than five subreddits with 100,000 monthly visitors.

That sounds perfectly reasonable. Reddit has a massive powermod problem.

The best way to leave reddit is to get permabanned.

I'm starting to get convinced that Redditors and mods are just gluttons for punishment by that platform.

They're planning on kneecapping old.reddit in this update too, and you see all the typical howling about "if they kill old.reddit I'm leaving fr this time" while at the same time, another big thread one comment lower is about all the ridiculous bans that people have gotten. And this is a mere two years after the API fiasco.

Why do people continue to use a platform that has proven time and time again that the asshole(s) in charge do not give a single fuck about them?

I got my 15 year old account permanently banned for filing one report against a user who was stalking my profile to call me slurs. (This was “abusing the report button”, apparently.) Everyone in my household got their accounts banned alongside mine. It’s very strange how the site is being run now.

I got a lifetime ban after 12 years on Reddit. I still have no clue why, and I really, really don't care.

Imagine still using Reddit in 2025.

I got banned for updooting Luigi stuff.

And I'll fucking do it again!

It's interesting to see the site treat it's unpaid workers more and more like low level employees. I guess capitalists just can't help themselves.

I got banned for criticizing billionaires.

I'm surprised that Reddit has any active users, personally. It's just so... Fake now.

Reddit has been dead since February, when Spez met with The Goblin, and then permabanned thousands, maybe millions of highly active accounts, including me. I was permabanned for repeating a post I had made many times with no issues. After 12 years, and almost a million Karma, I was suddenly too dangerous to allow on the platform, along with thousands of others.

We high volume posters built Reddit, but we shifted from being assets to problems after Trump was elected again.

These mods have ignored the previous waves of people leaving reddit. They were aware of this and have been warned but chose to stay

Funny to hear from the new mods that replaced their predecessors during the protest. Now it's their turn to be replaced

Breaking news: Reddit is on fire again. In other news, rain contains water and Twitter is full of Nazis. More at ten.

Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.

I joined after getting some weird warning about upvoting comments reddit didn't like. That left a sour taste in my mouth.

Reddit users, as have Xitter, Facebook, Instagram, Threads, etc., have all demonstrated that you can do whatever the fuck you want to them and they'll just keep coming back for more, no matter what.

Even after decades of abuse, you can open up a brand new platform (Threads) and they'll join by the millions.

'member when redditors would ALL leave because of the API restrictions? This will have no real effect whatsoever. I'm glad that most redditors didn't move to lemmy.

Got banned from the stims community after satirically commenting 'I'm 14 and what is this?'

The moderator demanded that I submit identity documents. I pointed out that the account was twelve years old but they couldn't back down at this point. I think they were trying to do a good job and were at least active but it was another nail in the coffin. In theory, an unpaid mod could be more objective because there's no profit motive but the reality is that many are ideologically biased or dumb or controlling and none of them are trained. That any single individual wants to be in charge of the narrative is suspicious. Scale that ambition up to hundreds of thousands or millions of people it's a red flag. Reddit is completely cooked these days, I haven't returned since finding Lemmy.

Fuck Reddit. It needs to die, along with discord.

Literally another attempt to appear legit by putting in place an easily circumventable rule.

So first they don't even check if mods are using alt accounts to moderate other subs but even if they do force it, it's so easy to click a button on your VPN and you are free to be anyone you want according to "Reddit Corps Super Advanced Security System."

There's a saying in my language that fits this situation perfectly: "Tja."

lol of course power mods would say that.

Fuck that dumbass site.