MyMindIsLikeAnOcean

That’s really what it feels like. Like…they have all this technology that associates multiple accounts with one person…but they don’t give you heads up even if they know damn well you’re the same person.

There must be some function of alternate accounts that benefits Reddit in some way.

Oh man…awhile back that happened to me: I complained to a mod in PM about racist posts in their sub - on my desktop account…then used the app on my smartphone because I wasn’t at home. It was different accounts because I’d forgotten my password at some point…but I didn’t actually care which account was what - I never cared about Karma and didn’t differentiate between them.

Little did I know the petty mod had given me a one-day ban for “harassment”…and both accounts got banned for “evading”. Back then Reddit admins weren’t swamped (I guess?) and the ban was overturned right away.

I think if that happened today it would have been an automatic autoban. It really feels like a set up. Why are they letting you have multiple accounts if they associate them with one person? What it feels like is Reddit given scammers tools that end up fucking over normal people.

Yeah man…I was fully addicted to Reddit for years until quoting Worf from Star Trek got me a 3 day autoban.

I reflected at how much of the “content” was automated: any major sub had countless accounts posting nonsense to promote themselves, a product, a YouTube channel, a blog. It’s become the definition of enshitification.

I deleted my account and the app before the autoban expired…not looking back.

I left Reddit for good a few weeks ago when I got a 3 day autoban for directly quoting Worf from Star Trek…in response to a post asking for quotes. I think it was an autoban because a couple years previous I got an auto-warning for quoting a punk song in a punk sub…appeal rejected.

I appealed the 3 day ban…but no idea if it would have been accepted because I deleted my account and the Reddit app after 2 days when I snapped out of my Reddit addiction and finally realized how enshitified it’s become.

It’s not dead…but it’s certainly an enshitified: husk of itself.

The way I described Reddits’ current state to somebody who asked was: “A bunch of bulletin board/chat rooms moderated by wanna be despots…all of whom rely on an overarching AI moderator that’s constantly sniping users and handing out bans for benign content. In between Ads and bots trying to instigate you or farm your clicks.”

it’s basically turned into a weird Orwellian advertisement delivery service. All the mods who turned their pages black should have just left.

I’ll believe it when I see it. There’s all manner of illegal voter suppression happening that has unknown implications. Given millions of Dem votes were illegally thrown out or suppressed last time, we can’t expect that reality on the ground to match the outcome.

Hey just wants to oust (kill) Maduro because he’s still choked about his Bay of Pigs.

Maybe I meant to type Smurfs?

I grew up in a very poor neighbourhood, then moved to a very rich one for high school, then back to a different poor one for young adulthood. I feel I can speak on this.

All the rich people I know are lazy and are constantly on vacation and play golf/whatever exclusive sport they prefer. Doesn’t matter if they’re 15 or 50…they basically all have the same life style. They will lose their minds if a peer stays at work at work or works in their home office for an extra hour or two a day as if they deserve a medal - provided the work is white collar work. They will completely disregard all the random days off and vacations they take on a whim as if they didn’t happen.

The hardest working people I know are immigrant dishwashers, hands down (just because I spent a lot of time in the restaurant industry - I’m sure there are equivalent jobs in other sectors). 6-7 days a week 10-12 hours a day, sometimes less than minimum wage, no overtime. Thankless, soul sucking, and difficult work. They will never ever complain, never ask for a raise and beg for more hours even tho additional hours have to be “off the books” and paid out of petty cash. Don’t even get tipped out like cooks. Never buy a luxury. They raise families and put kids through university. Biggest unsung sector in labour, as far as I’m concerned. Also the most exploited that allow the rich people to pretend what they do is work. If you try to advocate for them they tell you shut up and not rock the boat.

The people are just myth making: Musk and this woman first stretch the definition of work to mean everything they ever do…expensive business lunches or exotic vacations (that include a zoom meeting!) are considered work. But then difficult or stressful work gets discounted by association because the surfs only do it for 12 hours a day.

I doubt it.

Gen X Features Musk, Bezos and Joe Rogan. Can’t think of any significant leftists ATM (I could if I took more time and didn’t have confirmation bias for the purposes of this response, lol). AOC & Mandahmi…Millenials.

Note: I’m Gen X.

Me too…but we’re outliers.

SO many people who I thought were cool turned out to be morons…an alarming amount of them were radicalized in the pandemic. Even many of the people I know that think they’re devout leftists seem to feel they need to have one or more “edgy” views that cause them to caucus with radical centrists or right wingers. Like…my bi hippie friend started voting conservative because Palestine…my own lefty brother started voting conservative because of guns. Just found out a very poor ex girlfriend voted conservative because of right wing views on addiction. Then you have all the insane tankies…if you explained horshoe theory to them their heads might explode from the cognitive dissonance.

It’s because Gen X (my generation) turned out to be so grotesque.

I mean…this is just another in the line of examples (that will get much longer) of Trump just saying what he wished happened, instead of what actually happened. Kirk shooter, ICE shooter etc

“The shooter was an immigrant from a poor country to we must ban all immigration from poor counties”. He doesn’t expect it to become relevant that the shooter was a lunatic hired by the CIA and imported by his own administration.