Lol nothing says we are afraid of the working class like banning subreddits on suppressed news they don’t want us to see. I came here bc I got a warning on my account for liking a comment that said “Luigi”. My alt account got banned for sharing the DOGE email list that is public info. Fuck Reddit. I’m done.

  • barneypiccolo@lemm.eeEnglish
    43·
    22 hours ago

    After 12 years and over 900K Karma, I got permanently banned for repeating an opinion that I’ve posted many times over the past decade. Then Trump gets elected, and the exact same opinion gets me a permaban.

    Now I’m hearing that they are banning people for UPVOTES! I wondered why Reddit had decided to throw in with the Nazis, and I this week I see in the news that Ohanion wants to buy TikTok. The new owner of TikTok will be personally chosen by HitlerPig, so Zuckerfuck has been kissing up, and now Ohanion wants in on it. HitlerPig will award it to whomever kisses his ass and pays him the most.

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
      24·
      21 hours ago

      Reddit doesn’t want users participating in the site. They want eyes looking at ads and that’s it. Look, don’t touch. We’ve got bots for touching.

      Lurkers are more lucrative than posters.

    • henfredemars@infosec.pubEnglish
      14·
      21 hours ago

      That’s the problem with these corporations — the foundation is rotten, and they have no principles beyond more money. It has been this way for some time.

      Now, we have an economy where the arbitrary whims of billionaires and our king is the main determinant of their share price. This is how Reddit kisses the boot.

      They would exhume my grandmother if it increased share price by one tenth of one percent.

    • Numinous_Ylem@lemmy.world
      8·
      21 hours ago

      I created my first Reddit account in over a decade and was shadowbanned almost immediately. I didn’t even get a chance to post a semi-“controversial” opinion! The site is total garbage these days.

  • TangledHyphae@lemmy.world
    73·
    1 day ago

    I’d like to take this opportunity to point out that the RDDT stock price has dropped 40% in the last month, and it’s not surprising. That site is a sinking ship.

    • AloneYogurt@lemmy.world
      73·
      1 day ago

      Man the censorship is just vile too. It’s not like “Oh this incites violence” it’s “anything and everything that we and our shareholders don’t agree on is gone”.

      Worst part is if any other countries went after them then they would just restrict it to US news.

      • formulaBonk@lemm.eeEnglish
        311·
        1 day ago

        Classic capitalist gotcha. Turns out that prioritizing shareholders (a 3rd party leech entity unrelated to the operations or customers) is always going to lead to censorship. Like the generic “shareholder” needs stable status quo to figure out how to exploit the poors in most efficient way and violent revolt doesn’t guarantee a higher than inflation result. Modern capitalism in America is straight up a mental disorder similar to hoarding. You don’t need the money nor the stock but you’re willing to fuck over literally thousands of people for a minor gain. It should be studied … but studying this doesn’t help the bottom line so fuck any progress it’s death and destruction for %% daily return. Fuck all this

      • glepswizardhat@lemmy.worldOP
        261·
        1 day ago

        They are Streisand effecting the information though because the more they censor, the more people will talk about it. There’s already been a news article published by The Verge. It’s going to backfire so badly lmao.

        • AloneYogurt@lemmy.world
          111·
          1 day ago

          Seeing that non-right sided medias are picking this up is good. Hopefully it builds more traction and if they can even say something as simple as “Lemmy is an alternative” we can see healthy growth. I know r/conservative is probably loving it but in the last month I’ve seen them advocate for more violence than any other subreddits. Yet they remain free and open. Gotta love how contradicting reddit has become since the blackout.

            • Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish
              1·
              20 hours ago

              putins trolls control the sub, and the mods. not an accident why they are constantly on the front page all the time. and then theres the subs that “pretend to be both sides”

      • molestme247@lemmy.worldEnglish
        71·
        1 day ago

        Hey they got me long ago but permanently banned IP address maybe? Tried new numbers, new emails, and glad after the last few days

        • Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish
          1·
          20 hours ago

          they also looked for same device, browser fingerprinting, behaviour pattern, reddits banning filters is the most aggressive of any social media, and site.

        • Contemporarium@lemm.eeEnglish
          3·
          1 day ago

          Lol same. I’m finally starting to realize it wasn’t a me thing. I’ve really disliked the general flow of reddit for a while but it’s just such an easy thing to open up and scroll through. Didn’t know alternatives like this existed

    • venotic@kbin.melroy.org
      27·
      1 day ago

      Reddit has been compromised for a while now. 2016 opened them up. The API fiasco blew the door down. r/place exposed it and exploited Reddit for what it is. And we’re now seeing the new course of direction continue.

  • brax@sh.itjust.works
    762·
    1 day ago

    /r/conservative and /r/conspiracy are still open… What a fucking shit-ass website. I don’t get why they don’t just # rm -rf the whole fucking thing already.

    Clearly they’re pissed that people are still using the site. They’ve made efforts to stop it by making shit redesigns, releasing a shitty app, user profiles, shutting off the API and trying to force people to use their shit app.

    They must be seething that people are still using it and they’ve found a new way to try to get people to stop. Of course, they could shut the site down, but these are execs we’re talking about - their forté is ignoring every elephant in the room and then creating “solutions” that completely miss the problem.

    • gamer@lemm.ee
      27·
      1 day ago

      They’re in the business of selling “organic” content to AI companies, but those AI companies don’t want advertiser-unfriendly language in their datasets.

      • brax@sh.itjust.works
        13·
        1 day ago

        Advertisors are dumb as fuck. Like, clearly if their datasets contain language that is not “advertisor friendly” then who the fuck are they trying to advertise to?

        “Wow, all of society is doing this stuff. But this isn’t very friendly. The people doing that stuff certainly wouldn’t like if we advertised the stuff they’re doing!”

        • Zahille7@lemmy.world
          9·
          24 hours ago

          I honestly think it’s some weird plot to take humanity back to a puritanical society.

          Think about it.

          All major websites are censoring language and content that could even remotely be construed as adult-friendly or “harmful”; the fact so many US states are outright banning porn sites (I know it’s like a hydra, but the point still stands); the entire world is sliding right back into fascism; I even feel like Hollywood is stepping away from things like violence and vulgarity.

          It’s all a fucking sham and I fucking hate it. Let us swear; let us jack off to the weird shit we want to jack off too; just let people be people.

          Why does there have to be a small but extremely powerful subset of people who can run the entire world and dictate what the rest of us can and can’t do?

          • B-TR3E@feddit.org
            71·
            22 hours ago

            I honestly think it’s some weird plot to take humanity back to a puritanical society.

            When would that have been? Humanity never was puritan and it never will be. The UK were and some hicks in their former colonies think they still are but humanity or civilisation are not limited to the area between Texas and Alaska. Actually It has barely arrived there.

          • MehBlah@lemmy.worldEnglish
            31·
            23 hours ago

            The thing about the puritans were that they had harsh rules that existed to try to keep their flock from sinning. They failed as such things always fail.
            A good example of a common practice from the time was that part of the pay of a young man working on another mans farm was the bed of their eldest daughter at night. It made identifying the father of the child easier.

            This one practice alone made the puritans a lot more rational than this current cancer on society.

    • PunnyName@lemmy.world
      3·
      24 hours ago

      Probably because they both have mods. Almost every banned subreddit gets the ban because it’s unmoderated.

  • andros_rex@lemmy.world
    19·
    21 hours ago

    Reddit currently has a beastiality sub. They don’t allow real images obviously but people post hentai and fish for more. In the comments, they give each other advice/describe their activities.

    Reddit doesn’t care.

    • henfredemars@infosec.pubEnglish
      6·
      21 hours ago

      I’m afraid to say that’s not even the worst thing I’ve seen on Reddit and know continues to exist there. This is about bending over and showing their fealty to billionaires.

      • nonfuinoncuro@lemm.ee
        12·
        21 hours ago

        I mean the founder was the mod of /r/jailbait for years, if that’s what they had out in the open I don’t want to know what they have semi hidden

        • henfredemars@infosec.pubEnglish
          7·
          21 hours ago

          There is a disgusting underside that I don’t want to get into. Let’s just say that Reddit clearly doesn’t care that much about policing content. It’s only this topic in particular that they cannot condone. Criticizing billionaires is where they draw the line.

          It disgusts me.

      • imvii@lemmy.caEnglish
        17·
        1 day ago

        Same. And I have reddit and their nonsense ban hammer to thank for it.

      • OrloNorppa@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        11·
        1 day ago

        Somehow the complexity of using Lemmy compared to other social media sites and the decentralized nature of it has really gotten rid of the trollfarms and bot spam to a pretty good extent. I realize now that Reddit has such an insane amount of bad-faith actors that cause the site to be so toxic, same with all other mainstream social media.

        • henfredemars@infosec.pubEnglish
          2·
          21 hours ago

          We definitely have our own bots and spam problems. Instance admins work diligently to keep the situation under control, and so far, they’ve been pretty successful. I’ve seen a few waves of it in my almost 2 years here.

          I don’t think there’s a way to make the problem go away completely, but I think this model has proven more resilient so far. I believe in it.

        • parmesan@lemmy.world
          1·
          20 hours ago

          I saw someone in a reddit thread about Lemmy earlier complaining that it wasn’t “user friendly” enough because someone posted an infograph on how the Fediverse works. Even though all the infograph was explaining was that you log into one instance and can freely interact with the rest from there…

          I’ve always thought the internet should be more decentralized and being able to log in without seeing tons of bots, reposts and propaganda is literally the best aspect of Lemmy for me. This feels like what social media was meant to be. I wish there was an easier way to get people to understand that.

    • henfredemars@infosec.pubEnglish
      4·
      21 hours ago

      I came here with the API changes, but I knew there would be future waves. It’s so nice. I believe in Lemmy and the promise of federated media to help technology work for humans.

  • meisnoone@lemm.eeEnglish
    222·
    22 hours ago

    Permanently banned last week. Mods didn’t care for my thoughts on Luigi and Trump/Musk (they’re joined at the hip AFAIC, except Trump is definately the bottom, despite his diaper issues), and the madness of MAGA. Reddit is firmly in the facist camp, just like Timmy Cook, i.e. they will follow the money and the power; their capitalist instincts are pure. Fuck them all.

  • Kowowow@lemmy.ca
    92·
    1 day ago

    Make advertisers into bad words “hellofresh the rich” " squarespace the ceos"

    • kava@lemmy.world
      392·
      1 day ago

      Reddit may actually be doing a lot of people a big favor.

      Today Trump’s DHS went out and arrested a Palestinian student at Columbia for participating at a protest a year prior. Our federal agents are becoming like the KGB- hunting down political dissidents.

      I believe that is just a start. I think people would be wise to be careful about the things they post online. If you do post content you believe the administration may not like, I suggest making an anonymous account with an email not linked to your personal name.

      I have a hunch that people will be arrested in the near future for posting things online.

    • doug@lemmy.todayEnglish
      1·
      21 hours ago

      My account there is 19 years old and I’m starting to spend more time on Lemmy than I am Reddit.

      My forum timeline’s been webcomic/livejournal forums > ytmnd & digg > reddit > lemmy

      (Social media’s been Chat clients > MySpace > FB > Instagram > BeReal & Pixelfed)

  • TheObviousSolution@lemm.ee
    10·
    21 hours ago

    I love how in r/conservative and r/antiSemitismInReddit (Ignore the name, they mean anti-neozionists and are willing to shame Jews who protest against Israels actions as well, they even have a tag for them), they always complain about reddit being biased against them when it is quite the opposite. Take Jibrish, bringing his Eve Online gaslighting and trolling from the r/eve community to the r/conservative community, also running around shamelessly in r/RedditSafety. Reddit is effectively Silicon Valley psyop, meant to gather data and keep an eye on the tendency of the more educated lot on the Internet (as well as keep them in pro-neozionist bubbles by pushing them in major subreddits like r/worldnews).

    Hell, read or search about maxwellhill on YouTube. Some have taken that the fact that the account has logged in for private chats as having disproved that claim when all it proves is that someone, albeit lawyer, family member, or otherwise, has logged into the account. What can’t be disputed as a conspiracy theory and can be easily confirmed is that Ellen Pao, former Reddit CEO, revealed Ghislaine Maxwell who along with Epstein essentially ran that, a Silicon Valley psyops, was present at the same Silicon Valley Christmas celebrations as her and other influentials. This is the level of manipulation, where there is money there will be a will to manipulate.

    Reddit has absolutely no problem complying or letting US federal authorities and intelligence agencies access to all of the information they gather on your account on their backend. There used to be subreddits where you could report moderators, “karmawhores”, who trolled and abused their power. They were banned from the platform even after complying far more than other subreddits that got to remain. Forget pointing out the genocide of Palestinians, there was a time where you would even get banned from worldnews for calling cryptoscams confidence games. After Trump’s first term and the T_D disaster, the conversation seemed to shift from that failed insurgency (at the time) to a reddit spearled meme stock economic destabilization attempts. Reddit is subjecting yourself to be manipulated for the opportunity to participate in some communities, and they know it.

  • UrMomsSweetAss@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    10·
    22 hours ago

    Its truly nuts over there. I have now had 5 different accounts perma banned and im tired of evading their fingerprinting just to bypass each pan for similar comments. Like nothing that the general public would find controversial even remotely.

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      21 hours ago

      It’s crazy to think how hard people work to evade the system that is designed to get you to leave.

      Like, it speaks to the addictive nature of social media. How many hours? How much research? How many different angles of attack? All to… what? Shout “Donald Trump is a bad president” into the void amid a sea of bots and /r/HailCorporate influencer accounts? (Incidentally, RIP HailCorporate).