Lots of people have been banned, across all their accounts, with no recourse, and new accounts suffer the same fate
My fiancée lost over a third of her followers overnight, and asked a mod she knows what was happening.
She was told that anyone who had been banned, for any reason whatsoever was being indiscriminately purged, with device fingerprinting and other mechanisms used to keep them from finding a way back in
Apparently it has been happening in stages, so that’s why there are waves of mass-bans
Reddit seems determined to cut themselves off at the knees, so here’s hoping that Digg and Lemmy can shine and learn from the mistakes of Reddit
Like… why though??
Banning with impunity like that to the extent of keeping you or anyone in the household for coming back forever no matter how small the transgression… is insane.
I’ve had MANY unsavory back and forths with people over the last 12 years on Reddit but to just say fuck you never ever ever come back and we’ve made steps to ensure it is weird. Batshit crazy
I can only think they’ve decided to change course and go all in on manufacturing consent… Remove all the real users who might spot a bot and use LLMs to say whatever you like
It’s pretty wack. I’m just hoping Lemmy flares up again, like it’s so heartening to see it taking off, but at the same time it’s a bit disheartening to see a lot of threads with only like 2-3 comments.
I just have to teach myself to not comment on reddit anymore, or interact with anything there. Eventually hopefully never return.