Reddit

I still browse the subreddit for whichever game I'm into on my phone browser and old.reddit is a must, I can't stand the different style sheets. I remember it was gonna get ended but hadn't heard about it in a while. Anyone know if that's gone now?

I saw a post about someone making a "controversial" opinion (their words) about liking a game everybody fell in love with. It was a well-known, widely loved, and highly praised videogame that is very good (fires of rubicon). Then, a few hours later, after we called them out on it, they deleted the post.

 I͏ m͏a͏d͏e͏ a͏ p͏o͏s͏t͏ i͏n͏ m͏y͏ c͏o͏u͏n͏t͏r͏y͏'s͏ s͏u͏b͏r͏e͏d͏d͏i͏t͏ about a͏ r͏e͏c͏e͏n͏t͏ s͏c͏a͏m͏m͏e͏r͏; m͏o͏d͏e͏r͏a͏t͏o͏r͏s͏ i͏n͏ m͏y͏ c͏o͏u͏n͏t͏r͏y͏'s͏ s͏u͏b͏ d͏i͏d͏n͏'t͏ l͏i͏k͏e͏ t͏h͏a͏t͏ a͏n͏d͏ d͏e͏l͏e͏t͏e͏d͏ i͏t͏, s͏o͏ I͏ d͏e͏l͏e͏t͏e͏d͏ i͏t͏. A͏ f͏e͏w͏ h͏o͏u͏r͏s͏ l͏a͏t͏e͏r͏, m͏y͏ p͏o͏s͏t͏ w͏a͏s͏ r͏e͏m͏o͏v͏e͏d͏ b͏y͏ R͏e͏d͏d͏i͏t͏ a͏n͏d͏ g͏o͏t͏ b͏a͏n͏n͏e͏d͏ f͏o͏r͏ "d͏o͏i͏n͏g͏ i͏l͏l͏e͏g͏a͏l͏ t͏r͏a͏n͏s͏a͏c͏t͏i͏o͏n͏s͏." I͏ a͏p͏p͏e͏a͏l͏e͏d͏; t͏h͏e͏y͏ r͏e͏a͏l͏i͏z͏e͏d͏ i͏t͏ w͏a͏s͏ a͏ m͏i͏s͏t͏a͏k͏e͏ a͏n͏d͏ u͏n͏b͏a͏n͏n͏e͏d͏ m͏e͏ r͏i͏g͏h͏t͏ a͏f͏t͏e͏r͏ t͏h͏a͏t͏. M͏y͏ p͏o͏s͏t͏ w͏a͏s͏ "r͏e͏m͏o͏v͏e͏d͏ a͏g͏a͏i͏n͏," t͏h͏i͏s͏ t͏i͏m͏e͏ f͏o͏r͏ "s͏h͏a͏r͏i͏n͏g͏ p͏e͏r͏s͏o͏n͏a͏l͏ I͏n͏f͏o͏." I͏t͏ w͏a͏s͏ a͏l͏r͏e͏a͏d͏y͏ d͏e͏l͏e͏t͏e͏d͏, a͏n͏d͏ I͏ g͏o͏t͏ a͏ w͏a͏r͏n͏i͏n͏g͏ o͏v͏e͏r͏ i͏t͏ e͏v͏e͏n͏ t͏h͏o͏u͏g͏h͏ t͏h͏a͏t͏ w͏a͏s͏n͏'t͏ p͏r͏i͏v͏a͏t͏e͏ i͏n͏f͏o͏, a͏n͏d͏ t͏h͏e͏y͏ t͏o͏l͏d͏ m͏e͏ n͏o͏t͏ t͏o͏ r͏e͏p͏e͏a͏t͏ i͏t͏ a͏g͏a͏i͏n͏ a͏n͏y͏w͏a͏y͏. A͏ w͏h͏i͏l͏e͏ a͏f͏t͏e͏r͏ t͏h͏a͏t͏, I͏ g͏o͏t͏ a͏ b͏a͏n͏ o͏v͏e͏r͏ t͏h͏a͏t͏ s͏a͏m͏e͏ p͏o͏s͏t͏ a͏g͏a͏i͏n͏ f͏o͏r͏ p͏r͏i͏v͏a͏c͏y͏ v͏i͏o͏l͏a͏t͏i͏o͏n͏. I͏ a͏p͏p͏e͏a͏l͏e͏d͏, a͏n͏d͏ t͏h͏e͏y͏ r͏e͏f͏u͏s͏e͏d͏ b͏e͏c͏a͏u͏s͏e͏ I͏ s͏h͏a͏r͏e͏d͏ "p͏e͏r͏s͏o͏n͏a͏l͏ i͏n͏f͏o͏," e͏v͏e͏n͏ t͏h͏o͏u͏g͏h͏ a͏l͏l͏ I͏ m͏e͏n͏t͏i͏o͏n͏e͏d͏ w͏a͏s͏ p͏u͏b͏l͏i͏c͏ k͏n͏o͏w͏l͏e͏d͏g͏e͏ in t͏h͏e͏ a͏b͏o͏u͏t͏ s͏e͏c͏t͏i͏o͏n͏ O͏f͏ t͏h͏e͏ s͏c͏a͏m͏m͏e͏r͏'s͏ F͏a͏c͏e͏b͏o͏o͏k͏ p͏a͏g͏e͏ also multiple articles about his arrest a͏n͏d͏ h͏i͏s͏ a͏l͏i͏a͏s͏ n͏a͏m͏e͏. N͏o͏w͏ t͏h͏e͏y͏ r͏e͏f͏u͏s͏e͏ t͏o͏ e͏v͏e͏n͏ r͏e͏p͏l͏y͏ t͏o͏ m͏y͏ a͏p͏p͏e͏a͏l͏.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/19466667

Money, Mods, and Mayhem

The Turning Point

In 2024, Reddit is a far cry from its scrappy startup roots. With over 430 million monthly active users and more than 100,000 active communities, it's a social media giant. But with great power comes great responsibility, and Reddit is learning this lesson the hard way.

The turning point came in June 2023 when Reddit announced changes to its API pricing. For the uninitiated, API stands for Application Programming Interface, and it's basically the secret sauce that allows third-party apps to interact with Reddit. The new pricing model threatened to kill off popular third-party apps like Apollo, whose developer Christian Selig didn't mince words: "Reddit's API changes are not just unfair, they're unsustainable for third-party apps."

Over 8,000 subreddits went dark in protest.

The blackout should have reminded Reddit’s overlords of a crucial fact: Reddit’s success was built on the backs of its users. The platform had cultivated a sense of ownership among its community, and now that community was biting back.

One moderator summed it up perfectly: “We’re the ones who keep this site running, and we’re being ignored.” 

https://old.reddit.com/r/wholesomememes/comments/1f7ygfw/we_need_your_oc_wholesome_memes_please/

https://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/1f6g7f6/dallas_police_officer_executed_in_targeted_attack/

Randomly made a little post on Reddit that cloned one I made on lemmy, and it really showed the difference in user. I brought a screen protector and mentioned it didn't have glue and got a comment from each platform regarding the same issue that really made me realise the difference in communities and how tired I've become of the whole "well ackually" mentality of Reddit.

Lemmy comment, just asking a question and provides a solution trying to help: "Is it perhaps static cling, or do you have to apply with a water/soap solution?"

Reddit comment just randomly guessing and making out I'm a moron who doesn't know how screen protectors work despite me saying in the description I'd done so, got 14 upvotes on a 20 upvoted post, so this is basically the vibe of that sub I guess.

"I'm inclined to believe that you didn't peel the right side. "

This is my rant for the evening, think I'll go back to not bothering with Reddit any more, maybe I am stupid :D.

I unfortunately misclicked on a cross post to a progressive sub and wound up in the comments section of /r/Wild_Politics, in that sub everyone was praising the use of homophobic slurs in a TikTok by senate candidate Valentina Gomez in regard to the Olympian Imane Khelif. I simply explained that if Imane was indeed XY then she would have an intersex condition called Total Androgen Insensitivity and explained what that was and why it didn't make them trans or gay. /r/Wild_Politics then banned me citing I broke their rules, so I looked up their rules to see what they had on the books, surprised to see only a single BS rule, I replied to the ban message with "What rules? Snowflakes much?" which apparently is abhorrent harassment worthy of banning my 12 year old Reddit account and both of my alternate accounts.

Granted I did one muse about how terrible it would be if a local neonazi whose vehicle was photographed and posted on my local subreddit's car were to somehow catch fire and the owner were to get horribly burned trying to put it out. That earned me a 3 day ban by the admins. This was the only other interaction with reddit admins.

I've since appealed the decision which was immediately denied. I've also contacted reddit support via the form and gotten nothing but crickets. Apparently if I lived in the EU I'd have rights to arbitration to dispute the decision, but since I'm in the USA I'm just boned and banned from ever participating there again. Considering their intense ban evasion methods if I did ever want to use Reddit again, I'd have to use a privacy browser and make sure to never sign in on it with an account I've had tied to my phone in the past.

Are the reddit admins known for being right wing defenders or something? How is "Snowflakes much" suitable cause to permanently band an active reddit user with a pretty spotless track record of a dozen years?

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I've just submitted another reddit support request for this, but it seems they don't care.

After all this time I still had one Reddit tab left open to r/Ukraine, to see updates on the war.
Today I noticed that they have removed the option to use new.reddit.com to see the site as it was before the latest update. The current site design is so bad and slow that I immediately closed that tab.
old.reddit.com still exists for those diehards.

It looks like there are many submissions now being downvoted across many subs.

Before the API change I never really noticed mass submissions with zero votes. Now i see multiple zero vote submissions daily and I browse Reddit for about 20 minutes a day. My feed is set to sort by hot, so I don't see many submissions that have just been created.

Is this a sign of the type of people using Reddit these days, a lack of moderation, or could there be some bots floating mass downvoting?

Anyone here keeping track of how many times Reddit is down?

Because Reddit is down again

I'm trying not to read too much into the fact that Reddit is down right now, but I've noticed pages have been increasingly slow to load lately, and I get a lot of messages about server errors even just voting on comments. It seems like they're barely even keeping the lights on. Anyone else notice the same thing?

I made 1 comment ever on r/trump which I am not even subbed to...

Imagine being brandished an enemy over a misunderstanding, and banned from an entire community. Especially via an automated method they admit isnt perfect? Now I must appeal? For what again? -- That is Kill All Others mentality, and I am labeled the Other.

For context: I try to be a centrist, a proper one with proper devil's advocation. I usually end up voting Democrat, but I like moderate Democrats and progressive Republicans. (But to be fair, even r/centrist over on Reddit is very... American-Left ideology). I think case-by-case application of ideologies to scenarios is best.

Here is them muting me for my shocked reply:

EDIT: Just wanted to specify with the above picture, I do not believe any side is correct, hence my use of quotation marks. Choosing sides at all, especially in a two-party system, is a mess and we have been warned this many times by many different successful leaders/philosophers. Even our founding fathers warned this... I would say this to an alt-right just as quickly as I do the alt-left.

I am enlightened.

Was recently granted the privilege of a permanent ban on reddit for a username I had for over four years and it led me down the rabbit hole of seeing more and more claims from other people who went through similar experiences. Hell, there's a lot of them. Frivolous reports resulting in punishment, appeals being automatically denied, the works, etc.

It might just be a presumption, seeing how many bots slide under the radar each day on that site through posts and comments, but I have a strong feeling that most (seemingly random) admin bans are designed to flush out active and semi-active human users rather than weed out bot code posing as people online. The end goal? Whether it's to create an automated, cyclical platform designed to extract marketing and ad revenue from a steady stream of new users or anything else for that matter, I know not. All I know for certain is that the ban tendencies have ramped up in the recent year and the people actually being punished for it are those who have been using it for long periods of time and manage to conveniently fall on the edge of a subjective TOS offense.

I had my suspicions that it was gradually turning into an AI-fueled cesspit, but now I've had my chance to really believe that it has. Good riddance in that case

So I've discovered recently that instead the moderators and admins doing their due diligence, they'll just ban your IP. I can't wait for this to blow up in their face.