I have been using Reddit for the last couple of years. It feels like it got worse ever since u/spez banned 3rd party clients which requires me to use revanced reddit now. Now the latest saga involves subreddits now banning you for participating in other subreddit they think are bad. This is just pure censorship at this point. And you want to know the best part Reddit has done NOTHING to stop this issue.

  • expatriado@lemmy.world
    82·
    2 months ago

    i’m surprised I quit reddit cold turkey and never looked back, i was fairly addicted to that place. reddit was getting bad before 2023, when i left, but at that point was getting clear that wasn’t getting any better

  • ramenshaman@lemmy.world
    311·
    2 months ago

    which requires me to use revanced reddit now

    Actually it doesn’t require you to do shit. You can just not use Reddit.

  • Psythik@lemmy.world
    13·
    1 month ago

    The Nintendo community here is no better. I got banned for the same reason here on Lemmy.

    • GreenKnight23@lemmy.world
      52·
      1 month ago

      not surprised. when lemmy got popular all the mods from Reddit created their little communities because power feels good.

  • veee@lemmy.caEnglish
    13·
    1 month ago

    […] please delete all of your participation in the subreddit in question (regardless of if it is positive or negative) […]

    So it’s guilt by association.

  • Dr. Moose@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    1 month ago

    I used to be big contributor on reddit and it’s has been completely taken over by power users who are just shilling. Many subreddit mods are actually in bed with businesses and take straight up bribes or have their own conflicting interests.

  • BeBopALouie@lemmy.caEnglish
    7·
    1 month ago

    They are arbitrarily nuking peops to replace with bots. My wife got banned for laughing at a ratty pic near a whole wheat wrap and saying yum. Reddit said it was inciting violence. 2 days ago there was an actual picture of a rat in a wrap and no one was nuked. I also was nuked a month or so ago.

  • CatDogL0ver@lemmy.world
    31·
    1 month ago

    I quoted “a banned comment” with quotation marks and asked if it was the reason that Redditor was banned.

    Next thing I knew, I was banned.

    That’s stupid. I am done with Reddit

  • MrNobody@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    2·
    1 month ago

    Subreddits have banned people for activities that users do in other subreddits since long before the API changes. Reddit was bad, long before the API changes. The writing was on the wall when they first changed how votes were displayed, its what started the mass trend up karma farming. There used to be a lot of novelty accounts going around, the small user base kept things grounded and on topic. Then users like gallowboob took over, flooded the site with repost after repost, farming karma, other users began doing the same and now its nothing more than karma hell.

    Comment threads are rarely helpful, usually full of trolling, or pun threads, or jokes, or other useless unhelpful crap.

    Once a community, any community, becames large enough, the quality of the output drops. If you have 10000 users in a sub/community, and only a couple hundred that actually like the topic, the trolls and the off topic karma whores will take over. Low effort, low skill, low floor, low ceiling. Enshitification isn’t just a word, and it didn’t just happen over night. It’s been happening for a while. The internet will never be as good as it used to be, sure we can do more, watch more, send more, download more, play more, etc. But the smaller close-knit communities that helped cause the internet to thrive in the first place are never coming back.

    Enshitification and dead internet theory have made sure of that.