“Come make friends on Reddit”
Who wouldn’t want to talk to bots and train “AI”?
Comme c’est excitant!
What the fuck, that looks absolutely desperate! I’m sure it will have the opposite effect. Fuck reddit.
Wow, I’ve never seen them actually pull ads for membership. Site must be struggling for real users. Bot takeover isn’t working out, shouldn’t have banned the top users for petty bullshit.
The archive of past posts and problem solving is the greatest value of the site.
raises hand
Literally in the top 1% of karma users in 2023. Banned in 2024 for…
checks notes
…posting a comment that my bike was stolen when I was 7.
Reddit claims the ban was done by a human. However I just cannot see a human looking at the post I got banned for, and saying “This guy deserves to get banned”.
My best theory, based on the timeline, is that they offered me a presale enter IPO offering before it went public. At the time I was on cancer treatment, and had $0 income, with my two sisters and mom paying for my apartment.
I had no ability to buy an IPO.
3 days after it went public, I still didn’t own stock, and was banned. Because I said my bike was stolen 30+ years earlier.
sucks about the bike mang
I hope you’re cancer free now.
^^I ^^also ^^hope ^^you ^^get ^^your ^^bike ^^back.
My ban was for expressing “extreme indifference” about Kissinger taking a dirt nap.
Mine was for a direct quote from trump.
Fair enough, really.
I’m happy he’s dead. I wish he died as a miscarriage.
I got banned for saying we should have hanged every part of the Confederate leadership for treason.
They’ve done it before in the USA. My guess is that they want to push their non-English offerings, which is something they’ve only focused on recently.
Rule of thumb: the more something is advertised, the more shit it is for one reason or another, and you’ll do well to avoid it altogether. When I’m advising people on contractors, my number 1 rule is: if they’re on TV, they’re criminals, I promise you.
I help friends and family with minor plumbing repairs and they will tell me:
oh I had “x” company come and they did that
" well it’s all wrong "
They charged me a lot of money for that!
" why on earth would you have called them"
Because I saw their advertisement on TV. I thought they were good
" nah they’re crooks"
Mullvad is good though
Their ads mostly carry a political message, like the one opposing chat control during an EU summit in Sweden…
jus engage bro, just give us more data bro, just doomscroll all day, comment all the post bro, just engage bro, we need to keep the users coming bro, so we strike a better deal with google bro
“Make an account”….”get banned before you can even verify”
Cringe.
Because I like pit bulls and deisel VW’s. Nobody here likes them enough to post every day …or even once a month …or even once every 6 months…maybe once a year
But I’m confident they will one day ! Viva la Pit Bulls !!! Viva La Lemmy!!!
I hate that still some troubleshooting that I need to do is much easier when I look for answers through Reddit…
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there is almost no topic specific activity here, aside from Linux and unix
they haven’t yet banned all the anti genocide people.
Reddit is the most new-user-unfriendly site I have ever been to. You’ve got to farm an unknown amount of karma before you can post or comment in subreddits. There’s a reason I’m at Lemmy now. Fuck Reddit. (Also, 4chan is a toilet. The occasional nuggets of good stuff aren’t worth trawling through pages of shitposts for.)
It’s worse than ever. Once you work your way up to being able to say anything - BAN! It’s more of an echo chamber than ever before.
They don’t even let you see what you were banned for. Links to a comment that doesn’t exist within your ban notification
Isn’t 4chan dead and gone?
Nah, still alive and unwell
The fucking acronyms and in-jokes don’t help, either.
I have been playing a game, Chasm, I Kickstarted years ago. I am having some difficulties and while Steam discussions are helpful for some, most discussions are on Reddit. The posts are 3+ years old, and every time I try to open one I get a notification that the discussion hasn’t been reviewed by the community so I can only read it with the app. Shit website.
use the extension libredirect, one of which gets you to reddit scrapers that aren’t reddit.
I’m staying with my boyfriend because of his dog. Am I horrible?
Is there a Parisian who doesn’t do rock climbing, Pilates, or ceramics?
I’m going to the Maldives but I’m composting, does that make up for it?
Just between you and me, who’s ever bought fruit on the metro?
So, what do we do with the people on the wrong side of the escalator?
Has anyone ever found the exit at Chatelet, or is that a myth?
These are all valid and important questions that need to be discussed… ;-)
“Come make friends on Reddit”
Lmao. Tell me Reddit inc doesn’t understand their product at all without telling me.
No one uses Reddit to make friends. (Yes, I know some jagweed will come with a story about their friends brothers girlfriends nephew that met their best friend on Reddit)
I have never noted anyone’s username regularly on Reddit. Unless it’s because they consistently had terrible comments, then they would stand out as either a troll or an idiot; honestly, it could go either way with many of them.
Lemmy is small enough that I see some of your names daily.
Y’all better stay off my lawn.
where is satan’s maggoty cumfart when we need him?
I used to have an iOS client for Reddit that would hide usernames. That was actually fantastic.
I don’t care who you are, just what you say.
I make friends on aita all the time. The room is always full of people. They cheer me when I’m right, and ai’m always right.
They say I need help because I talk to myself all the time, and that I haven’t cleaned the roon in ages, but they told me that i’mactuakly right, on reddit.
/but really, I rareky used a platform as antisocial as modern reddit. It used to have a place for information sharing. Now it’s facebook. But it has a red snoo as a mascot and not a blue f. And yes the reddit alien mascot is called a snoo.
Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.
The guy that used to mod /r/jailbait? Yup. That guy.
Silly Reddit, bots aren’t going to sign up because of an ad
They added functionality that allows you to hide your comment history, so now you have even less information regarding whether you are talking to a real human being or not. Before, they didn’t even have to advertise. Now, they’ve enshittified themselves so much they desperately need new users.
They desperately need real users.
They have plenty of fake ones.
That little baby new account icon and comment history are two ways to check for bot, bad faith or both. Not saying you are, but it’s one of the flags
The new account icon tells very little in comparison to the comment history.
If, say, my account was created today as I’m posting in a very politically radicalized topic, it can be very suggestive about the type of user I am. If the account seems to be speaking from experience and awareness of the social network they are speaking to and it is new, it can indicate they are an alt, like a newly created one from one that closed down like lemm.ee.
But aside from that, it can do very little. It is the comment history that is most revealing to the type of user you are interacting with. With comment history and a recently created account, it can pretty much nail why someone created the account for sure, whereas if you just have a new account participating and just see a single comment with the signs of a dog whistle in a very politically radicalized topic from them, that might be suggestive, but nowhere near what a flurry of hate filled comment history would be that you might have been denied the chance to check up on with Reddit.
Some people can outgrow their comment history, akin to what “right to forget”, but I’d argue for something more like the ability to be able to tack on that you have done that, how, why, and what shows it, so more akin to a right to forgive. The only thing that should have a hard right to forget IMO is strictly doxxable and harassable private data.That’s a different but tangential type of discussion.
