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.

  • MrNobody@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    7 days ago

    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.

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      Truly man, nothing will recapture 15 years ago reddit for me. Every thread was fresher than any thread now. There ws still the awful lyrics chains but peoples comments were real and just hilarious.

      Even the sluts were real sluts now they are only in it for the OF exposure.

      I remember the lamp comments and slam dancing dildos the most, great stories.

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    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

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    Yo dawg I heard you like gatekeeping and purity tests, so I got the algorithm here to Pimp Ur App!

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    Reddit is like all news sites these days, you simply can’t even quote the people discussed in the thread and not get banned. Reddit has made a choice to follow the current administrations guidelines on what should be banned. And the millions of users make jokes and stay there. They also think they are making a difference there.

    I’ll check it if there is some news I want to know more about, but I’ve pretty much given up Reddit and on all social media. I cary a book with me and just read if I have a few minutes. I may be less connected and informed but I feel happier.

    Of course here I am complaining about one place on another.

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      reddit catered to musk like twice this year alone, thats what led to the purges, remember he complained in januarary and later in april. additionally reddit also have employed more general indiscriminate shadowbannings as well.

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    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

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      Sure, but the community would immediately make a new NintendoHelp community on another instance. We have a low tolerance for that kind of BS.

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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.

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        I wouldn’t be so sure. I could point to .ml and BlahajZone. Both have some questionable admins.

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          .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.

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            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.

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              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.

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    which requires me to use revanced reddit now

    Actually it doesn’t require you to do shit. You can just not use Reddit.

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      True, but at least on Lemmy you can switch instances. Or switch to PieFed, or use any other media that supports activitypub.

      Reddit is reddit. You can’t just go on another platform and “connect” to a subreddit.

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      I am outright abrasive and hostile to .ml mods for their tankie lies and .world mods for their Nazi bootlicking, and despite having many posts and comments removed I have not been banned from a single community as far as I can tell.

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        I’ve been banned from communities on completely different instances for things I’ve said that clearly personally offended some powermod or another.

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      At least on Lemmy it’s mostly one part of it, and honestly being banned from that part is probably a good thing

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      but the amount of moderations and filters is much more oppressive on reddit. politics is usually the ones that get people banned on both platforms

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    The Nintendo community here is no better. I got banned for the same reason here on Lemmy.

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        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.

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        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.

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      not surprised. when lemmy got popular all the mods from Reddit created their little communities because power feels good.