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12 year old account got permabanned for telling a Nazi off. But even before this happened I've noticed how much reddit has dropped off the last few years compared to when I discovered it.

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[-] Formfiller@lemmy.world 15 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

It’s starting here too I called out a 5hr old account for being a suspected Russian bot and my comments were removed. I also got mobbed on by a manosphere group in a comment on an article about a book that a woman wrote about being doxed with revenge porn. The toxic Reddit culture is starting to come over.

[-] CheeseToastie@lazysoci.al 11 points 2 days ago

I find anything remotely pro women has always got shitty comments from the manosphere. We recently had a spate of shitty male comments on !WomensStuff@lazysoci.al

[-] Formfiller@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Thanks for this response. I feel less alone. It’s pretty frustrating to see these manosphere mobs claiming victim status and accusing people of misandry when women speak frankly about their lived experiences. I was hoping that lemmy would be a better space for this kind of thing.

[-] misteloct@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 2 days ago

You're on lemmy.world, they're the default landing zone but imo there is better moderation on dbzer0 and others. Keep looking around and report stuff you see if it's hate content. Good luck...

[-] CheeseToastie@lazysoci.al 3 points 2 days ago

I know, it's disappointing. The nice thing is how fantastically supportive so many men have been, I've had a few DMs and really nice comments from them. It's just the bad are so awful

[-] derry@midwest.social 6 points 2 days ago

Capitalistic facism aka enshittiffication.

[-] RymrgandsDaughter@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days ago

Elon whined to the admins, reddit is completely run by fascist bootlickers lmao. You can't even shit talk dusty evangelicals for being the amoral murder rapists they are without getting a site wide ban

[-] Smoogs@lemmy.world 16 points 2 days ago

Oh good I’m not alone in believing something weird is going on like AI moderation. Random old account I had I wasn’t even using got a notification it was permabanned for violating a rule. No definition of which rule. Tried asking. Just a repeat that I violated a rule with no definition of which rule.

It must be just bots on there now.

[-] Ledericas@lemm.ee 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

no your not, i noticed it was odd that i wasnt recieving the incident of the ban, like they usually give if you get banned. but its just AI message and autorejection. and then the last thing, other accounts i havnt used years ago is banned too.

additionally, i had recieved a temp ban prior but it somehow triggered this.

[-] Smoogs@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Thanks,

I think I’m now just super creeped out at the thought of an entire site that is just AI bots now, updooting and responding to each other.

Or maybe I should be relieved. I was checking some of the stuff over there lately and I’ve just been getting sad and depressed about how stupid people have been getting.

Although it is Weird that Elon is getting offended by bots tho. Apparently he’s been asking spez to get rid of the mean dems saying bad things about him.

[-] Ledericas@lemm.ee 1 points 1 day ago

he partially the reason there was a purge in januarary.

[-] Strider@lemmy.world 19 points 3 days ago

Enshittification happened, a long time ago.

[-] ssladam@lemmy.world 16 points 3 days ago

You think it's bad? Go look at "popular" while you're not logged in (no subs / filters). It's shocking how insipid the experience is.

[-] CheeseToastie@lazysoci.al 3 points 2 days ago

Just looked. It's basically Trump, Trump, vapid stuff, Trump, vapid stuff, vapid stuff, Trump on repeat

[-] IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 18 points 3 days ago

Reddits purpose is to create Nazis. You can post anything and use AI bots to do it as long as you push right wing propaganda.

[-] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 18 points 3 days ago

I mean a lot of things happened to Reddit.

The most recent obvious decline was allowing AI moderation. That's when I finally checked out.

[-] Smoogs@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Yup. No description other than ‘you violated the rules’ and you’re supposed to guess which rule. It’s like dating a gaslighting sociopath.

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[-] s0k@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Shitty moderation, biased mods, oh well

[-] sparrownetwork@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

I just got banned for saying that if RFK doesn't believe in germ theory we should dust him with anthrax and see what he says, lol.

[-] TheDeadlySquid@lemm.ee 11 points 3 days ago

Left about 3 months ago, has not been missed.

[-] LMurch@thelemmy.club 9 points 3 days ago

I canceled my reddit premium account a few months ago. I was shocked at how numerous and annoying the ads are.

[-] BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

You might be the first guy I've heard who paid for premium

[-] Hoimo@ani.social 2 points 2 days ago

People use the internet without ad blockers??

[-] opus86@lemmy.today 36 points 3 days ago

I got a 3 day site wide ban for saying that without due process, these ICE guys are just racking up hundreds of kidnapping and trafficking charges in a sane world. The ban said I was threatening violence. I'm done with Reddit.

[-] CandleTiger@programming.dev 12 points 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I figure they have AI chatbots making the decisions and it can’t ~~term~~ tell the difference between talking about violence and advocating for violence

[-] Almacca@aussie.zone 4 points 2 days ago

When I got banned for 'promoting violence' they said that the ai had flagged it, but a human had confirmed it. The humans are just as fucking clueless about context.

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[-] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 45 points 4 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I had a 13 year old account I simply stopped using in 2023 when compact.reddit.com was killed and the API changes fees were introduced. Lemmy was "good enough" get to get what I was getting from reddit. I stopped using reddit and haven't posted since.

[-] chunkystyles@sopuli.xyz 7 points 3 days ago

I did the same, but kept the account, just never log into it.

I deleted my accounts.

Burn that fucking bridge baby.

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[-] Turturtley@aussie.zone 20 points 3 days ago

Reddit got threatened by a billionaire Nazi. Reddit caved to said billionaire Nazi.

[-] golli@lemm.ee 41 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I'd say the most recent major influences were the IPO and the emergence of LLMs.

Reddit becoming a publicly traded company and the preparation to do so certainly initiated a major shift in its priorities.

Ai and large language models make it easier than ever to create shiny, but low quality content.

And the rest is just reddit becoming more mainstream leading to an overall shift towards banal rather than niche topics.

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[-] Geetnerd@lemmy.world 21 points 3 days ago

They want to be "Corporate Friendly."

Criticize corporations, or Musk and Trump for a week, enjoy your permanent ban.

We'll be here for you.

[-] drmoose@lemmy.world 19 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Got banned for saying that "Israeli people should be upset enough with Netanyahu to have his head on a pike" for "advocating violence". Even non-native English speakers are familiar with this expression which does not literally mean heads on pikes unless you somehow travel back in time to medieval Europe.

I've been on reddit since it's inception and while I didn't go there that often now that Lemmy exists the ban kinda seals the Reddit brand for me.

Another turning point was the April fools mini game this year which was universally hated. This has never happened on Reddit before. I think Reddit is beyond redemption at this point unfortunately and Reddit itself thinks that so they'll get their bags while they can.

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[-] BBQuicktime@thelemmy.club 1 points 2 days ago

I got an account ban for stating how terrorists deserve to die, which I guess is a controversial opinion now. Bunch of pussies in charge of the place now.

[-] figjam@midwest.social 1 points 2 days ago

Its been downhill for a while but seems to have picked up speed in the last 6 months or do. Hmm. Wonder why that is.

[-] antisocialite@lemmy.today 20 points 3 days ago

I got permabanned just for participating in /r/enoughmuskspam. We figured out Musk frequented the sub, and as an active member who mocked him daily, I had a feeling it was coming. I'm fairly sure he flagged me and other users for permabans.

Their excuse was that I said (((Soros))) to a Nazi MAGA claiming Soros was funding all the protests, which wasn't at all true. Why is that a bannable offense? Never seen censorship like that on the net in my life

My suspicion is that it's happening a lot and that they want to turn Reddit red like they did with Twitter. Musk and Reddit's CEO are pals.

[-] Geetnerd@lemmy.world 13 points 3 days ago

That was a honeypot to ban anyone critical of Musk, and corporations in general.

I fell for it, too.

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[-] barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 15 points 3 days ago

Me, too. 12 year account, 900K+ Karma. I was looking forward to crossing the million mark this year.

At first I was concerned about having fewer people on Lemmy, but for things like Politics, the quality of discourse is far higher than Reddit. Every Reddit post is filled with puns, idiots, trolls, Russian propaganda farmers, etc., all of which are far smaller or non-existent on Lemmy.

I still miss Reddit's active guitar subs, though.

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[-] roserose56@lemmy.ca 12 points 3 days ago

Welcome to the reality! I saw reddit changing in a bad way 2 years ago and came to lemmy.

[-] Alaik@lemmy.zip 12 points 3 days ago

It started getting shitty but pretty much when they killed 3rd party apps it just went in freefall.

[-] Lucky_777@lemmy.world 18 points 4 days ago

Yep, also told off Nazis. Then, perm banned. I've been on that site for 15 years, moved over to Lemmy. Fuck Reddit.

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