Thank you Spez for banning my account of nine years for voicing my political opinion! I made many contributions to communities over the years and now you’ve lost that so good fucking bye.
Seriously, shareholders kill what they invest in it’s surreal.
It’s always been like that. They’re parasite - they ruin the thing they latch on to, then they jump ship with fat stacks of cash and move on to the next product to kill.
except that not all parasites harm their host. in nature, “parasites” range from a mutually beneficial relationship to the destruction of their host.
these are the bad type of parasites, also called diseases
It’s truly astounding, isn’t it? Like, is there any investment that hasn’t totally killed the product? You can feel when a company switches over too to the investors. It doesn’t matter what the product is.
Like, take the website ModCloth. Started as a vintage fashion reseller. It was like a little community that was attached to a e-commerce store.
Walmart subsidiary bought them out. Changed over the website. Deleted everyone’s usernames, information, and profiles. And with it over a decade of user posts and photos. Website stopped selling any good quality vintage style clothes. The entire reason anyone shipped there. It’s just like drop shopped tshirts with stolen art now. What the fuck.
I can think of a hundred more examples. Investors buying any company should sound like a banshee scream.
Soon we will see it happen to Discord. It will be pretty awful.
Man I’ve supported discord for years too. Fucking sucks. It makes me upset to think about.
Well at least IRC with come back with good searching… Unless Google fucks that up somehow. The internet is dead or dying.
Yeah even google search is broken thanks to AI, never thought it would happen but here we are.
It’s very inconvenient.
I have a project right now that needs a good unique title, and since Google is now flying blind through a soup of AI gibberish I have no way of telling whether the titles I think up are unique.
Last time I went through this process it was so easy.
Where are we moving to instead of Discord?
matrix or mumble or xmpp
My vote is Matrix!
I prefer xmpp but I know the matrix onboarding is easiest by far
ever since huffman publicly endorsed elon/trump, it was only a matter of time.
Because they don’t care about the long term health of the company. They just need the next quarter to be profitable, and then they can move on.
What opinion got you banned?
Perhaps a comment about Louie G.
Funny thing, I’ve been calling him Manny G
That’s perfect. The more aliases, the better
I got banned for saying if nazis came for me, I’d go down without a fight and take a few with me 🤷🏻♂️ doesn’t take much
Okay I’ll bite - who is this?
The Elon meat rider that’s trying to replace reddits user base with loyalists and bots.
u/spez, CEO of Reddit
AKA the greediest little pigboy who ever lived
That’s what he looks like? Somehow he’s the only tech conglomerate I couldn’t put a face to.
Honestly, I shouldn’t still be pissed about my ban but I can’t help it.
I was on reddit for over 10 years with millions of fake internet points
Sitewide banned me for no discernable reason
It’s been a couple of months and they still haven’t even bothered to respond to my appeal
Now that I see how reddit’s going down the tube, I don’t even care if they respond at this point
I’m done with it
I got banned from half the subs on reddit for trying to explain the scunthorpe problem on programming related sub, because all that is what happens when everyone uses the same automod that has the exact problem I was trying to explain and they also ban you from subs you’ve never even been to because they share a naughtylist of ppl who use the c word.
for anyone that’s never heard of it: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem
reddit admins and mods are just using idiotic automation to shoot first and ask questions never
and also to help the billionaires not have to look at things they don’t like so elongated muskrats don’t get thier feewings hurt
Ngl, that’s kinda hilarious (and sad at the same time)
I can see why these people change the name or their village: https://www.dw.com/en/austrian-village-of-fucking-decides-to-change-its-name/a-55740967
I recently lost my 13 year old account for telling a Nazi troll that their actions have consequences.
Still trying appeals but not optimistic.
Literally thousands of unpaid work done as a moderator of 4 subs during that time.
… Im so bitter.
Now I’m bitter for you too.
Who is going to create content or mod subs if they kick out all of us veterans?
AI… And they’ll be the users too!
Like how twitter and YouTube comments are just bots talking to bots?
Yeah. …I could see it going that way.
My account was 17 years old when I was banned without explanation.
Reddit has turned into a complete shithole the past two years. The sooner it gets taken out back and bludgeoned to death, the better.
Personally, I don’t trust anyone who hasn’t been banned at least once from that place.
I went 13 years without being banned, even though I spent most of my time on there debating politics and religion which frequently got heated and had never even been temp-banned from a subreddit. Now I’ve been banned 4 times in the last year for total bullshit, 2 of which happened yesterday, so things have definitely gone downhill.
Kinda nice to get banned though. I was banned from xitter for liking a comment critical of the muskman, it really helped reinforce that I needed to be done with that place though. Maybe I’ll move on from Reddit before that happens…
this is so reminiscent if the digg Exodus around the aacs key. bans pushed us to reddit, and at a higher rate than those being banned. Lemmy mau is up over 10%. idk if the bleeding can be stopped.
uninvolved users will stay with it. digg had 2 or 3 major redesigns before I stopped hearing about it completely. it became little more than yahoo! news.
I’m sure that is the fate of reddit now.
I left Digg during that exodus and went to Reddit, and now here I am. Enshittification happens everywhere that capitalism finds an opportunity to put its dick in someone’s ass, it’ll probably happen here too if it gets popular.
All these Reddit bans I’m seeing are insane. At this rate, soon most of that site is actually going to be bots lol
and they keep it vague so you never know the actual reason why its ban, they are definitely cleaning house to make it look facebook2.0, facebook now uses AI to control dead accts to engage in activities. reddit is heading this way, of course with right wing content too. its also becoming increasingl hard to make your own subreddit, or take it over. they want a small managable group where they can distribute propaganda.
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Going back to their roots. This time they’ll buy the from OpenAI.
Yup, they banned me for 7 days because saying Luigi didn’t deserve to go to jail for what he did is apparently ‘encouraging violence’. I appealed and it was lifted, but not before I got another message identical to yours. In my 14 years of reddit I have never had more than a single account, so I appealed that too. I’m not banned anymore but I got a message saying the second appeal was denied and the ban would stay in place. I think reddit is just falling over itself in its eagerness to frog-march to
Der Fuhrerspez’s new fashy bullshit.Deleted my 15 yr account yesterday. Hola!
Deleted my 14 year old account on Saturday. Fuck em.
It’s actually nice to open a comments section and see the same goddamn 10 comments every time.
Once you’re banned, do your previous posts and comments get deleted? Or do you just lose access to them?
You can still browse and your comments still remain up. But you can no longer post or comment further. I’ll still get upvotes / replies to old comments. I just can’t respond
Thanks for clarifying!
You just lose access
My account was 11 years old when I left. Destroyed all my data, thank you very much
the data is not destroyed, it is only you that doesn’t have access anymore… i am sure you can still buy the data from reddit
