Fuck /u/spez
Greedy little fuckboy
*pigboy
I know what I said.
… I said the wrong thing, mistakenly, but I’ll stick with it because the error is closer to the truth…
“During October, we have seen that search traffic has dropped by more than 1 million referrals on average per week. If this rate of decline continues, current trends would suggest that total DAUqs [or daily active unique users] could fall in Q4, by a low-double-digit percentage from our current base of 130 million DAUqs,” Huffman wrote.
Weird that not allowing people to use your site would lower the number of people using your site.
It’s just shitty that so much useful information is on reddit.
It’s ok. The AI companies will scrape it and spit it out for you.
It’s ok. The AI companies will scrape it and might spit it out for you.
Correction bolded, but it was sad that was my first thought too
The first result is always “Why are asking us when you can just google it?”
I am trying to stop answering questions that I think are quickly searchable with “you have the entire world’s knowledge in your pocket”. It’s been a long time since trustworthy information has been easy to find on the internet.
It’s like repeatedly hitting your genitalia with a wooden mallet and acting smug about it, if someone is asking for assistance.
The people that created that info can recreate it elsewhere
Maybe, but that’s a lot of work.
He’s so unbearably dumb…
And permanently banning anyone that says anything remotely like what the advertisers don’t like.
When I stopped using reddit a few years ago, I left my account intact because I had 18 years of posts that included a lot of tech help and other useful information that I figured people might stumble across.
Last night, I used Redact to scramble all 5,521 comments.
Redact is owned by a real piece of shit that holds onto that information for potential blackmail. FYI.
Jinkies
Velma, I believe you, but are there other sites you can recommend? Also, I couldn’t find any news on this.
Here’s an older Lemmy thread about Redact
Here’s a more in depth look at who Dan Saltman is:
Dan Saltman is a tech entrepreneur and political podcaster who leverages his platform to advance Zionist interests, targeting pro-Palestine voices and justifying Israel’s ongoing settler-colonial project in occupied Palestine.
As founder of TinyChat — a video chat platform acquired in 2014 after receiving $1.5 million in funding from Sean “Diddy” Combs, amid allegations of its use in predatory behavior — Saltman built his career in online communications. He now serves as CEO of Redact.dev, a service that deletes users’ digital footprints, which he promotes amid his own involvement in online activism. Saltman co-hosts the “Anything Else” podcast with Steven Bonnell II (Destiny), where he discusses politics and amplifies pro-Israel views to Western audiences.
Saltman has repeatedly portrayed pro-Palestine advocacy as support for terrorism, directly accusing streamer Hasan Piker of promoting “terrorist propaganda” and “Hamas recruitment videos.” In September 2025, he endorsed calls to ban Piker from Twitch, claiming Piker’s content encourages violence and supports terrorist organizations, while framing criticism of Israel as antisemitism. This rhetoric dehumanizes Palestinians by equating their resistance to Israel’s occupation with inherent threats, perpetuating consent for settler violence.
Saltman orchestrated a widespread disinformation campaign against Twitch, accusing the platform of fostering antisemitism by allowing pro-Palestine speech. He mobilized supporters to pressure advertisers, leading to temporary pauses in spending by companies like JPMorgan and AT&T in late 2024. This effort aimed to suppress voices critical of Israel’s actions in Gaza, where the confirmed death toll exceeds 40,000 — a conservative estimate, as Israel’s destruction of infrastructure and targeting of journalists has halted accurate counting, with the actual number slaughtered well into the hundreds of thousands. Saltman’s actions align with broader Zionist efforts to weaponize antisemitism accusations against dissent, shielding Israel from scrutiny over its apartheid policies and ethnic cleansing in the West Bank and Gaza.
His associations extend to content creators like Ethan and Hila Klein of the H3 Podcast and Destiny’s community, with whom he has collaborated on attacks against Piker, viewing him as a threat due to his effective advocacy for Palestinian liberation. Saltman’s push to repeal Section 230 appears motivated by a desire to further censor online criticism of Israel. Twitch banned him indefinitely in November 2024 for “extreme harassment,” including doxxing and targeting employees who refused to comply with his demands.
This pattern of behavior is not isolated but part of a consistent effort to normalize Israel’s settler-colonialism, obscure Palestinian suffering under occupation and genocide, and manufacture public consent for ongoing violence.
Some additional info on the type of harassment campaigns that Dan Saltman engages in.
Dan Saltman? Is Sam even trying here?
Yea that guy sucks for a ton of reasons but what does that have to do with your claim that he holds on to your redacted Reddit comments as blackmail?
You think a guy who has stalked and harassed multiple people isn’t using everything in his power to force them to do what he wants?
There’s an ulterior motive for everything with Dan Saltman.
I sure as fuck wouldn’t trust any of my information with this fucker.
App claims it’s stored locally, so I don’t know.
Any source on the blackmail claim?
Ereddicate is the FOSS option, but reddit broke it permanently a year ago.
Whelp, glad I didn’t give him any money then.
Jeeez, I was thinking about using them to scramble my Meta accounts, thanks for the info!
No problem! It can be hard to keep track of everyone behind the scenes, so to speak.
I envy you. I was a little too outspoken which led to my account being banned, and now I can’t do anything about my existing trove of data I foolishly created for them
Don’t feel too bad, they kept a copy regardless of who redacted
Scrambling is easy detect. But if you edit the posts slightly to be wrong and useless, that is much harder to restore if you do it slowly (if you do it in batch they can easily see that all edits happened close to eachother. If it looks natural then they would need to start being paranoid about all edits).
I’m not sure how good something like this would be to do in big picture, but as its evident they are going to gatekeep ALL information at somepoint, they should be denied to it.
There should be a volunteer group you could give your reddit account to that would do as much damage to spezs shitty site as possible with it.
I mean any solution that edits a comment every 4 seconds for 13 hours straight is bound to raise a red flag.
I figure it’s better than nothing. Besides, I still have control of my account and can run it again if they try bringing comments back.
This is the dumbest shit. I’m doing home reno stuff constantly and we live in a world where everyone looks up info online constantly. Sometimes I need to reference an old reddit thread or whatever. It’s usually better than whatever garbage Google AI spits out at you by default.
Sure just guide people to doing stuff wrong. I’m so glad a few decades ago we invented this amazing source of knowledge and information and communication that is easily accessible for the first time in human history and yeah let’s just purposefully fuck it up.
Seriously, it is a huge pain in the ass exploring a niche subject and you get some scrambled comment because “reddit bad”.
at some point they will gatekeep all that with subscription or something
There should be a volunteer group you could give your reddit account to that would do as much damage to spezs shitty site as possible with it.
I’ve soon been on here for 3 years now and made almost 11,700 comments in that time (which I personally find must be a miscount somehow, that sounds insane). So anyway, I was on Reddit for over 11 years. Extrapolating these numbers kind of boggles my mind a bit.
They will automatically unredact your stuff unless you prove you live in a gdpr country with a government ID. Which they cannot be trusted with. Heads they win, tails you lose.
R.I.P. NSFW communities I guess.
I thought those weren’t visible without a login already, right?
Reddit? Is that like digg?
In the sense it digged its own grave, yes.
ive been trying to post my experience-first video player on reddit and i can’t even post anywhere because everywhere requires i comment NINE TIMES FOR EVERY PERSONAL POST. fuck that man I’m trying to share something i made for free over 3 months I’m not fucking playing social media simp just for the privilege
There’s only one social media site that’s still the same as it was a decade ago. The only problem is that it was never good.
It’s not the same place it was 20 years ago 😂 I hate how old I fucking feel knowing I was an og /b/tard
How has it changed? I’m genuinely not familiar with it. I know of the spicy reputation it once had, but I rarely see it mentioned anymore these days. I assume censorship or something like it found its way there?
User posts are down, bot posts are up. Go to anything political or US, Israel or Iran news and all you will see are hundreds of homo erotic AI images of Trump posted by bots
the bots switch themes every day, one day it was all about posting BBC, the other gore and so it goes
Ugh, that does sound terrible. I liked Reddit reasonably well before 2016 turned everything and anything into politics. And then covid and the whole Ukraine situation turned everything to shit even further.
I really miss the 2000 internet when it was just nerd discussions and the occasional funny gif.
Check this out, it’s actually quite interesting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dU7gCt-7kKk
Edit: and no, it’s not rickroll, even if it would have been very appropriate here.
Just because the people have changed doesn’t mean the platform has changed
Nah it changed, if you were there early on you know the vibe started changing by 07 and by 10 it was kinda what it is now. I’m pretty sure I fully left in 2011.
While yea alot was user base ageing out it was also leadership, rules, posting numbers, OC reduction, government actions.
In other news, Reddit stock is down a whopping 28% today.
It’s crapitalism.
Anyone who still has an account there, I’d encourage you to use it to gently promote your favourite Fediverse website. There are a significant number of people asking about Reddit alternatives the last couple of days, and sending people directly to a specific suggested site (rather than just saying something like “Lemmy”) is more likely to get people to come over and check things out.
It’s a shame there’s not some big social engagement event going on here right now. Anyone want to start some kind of viral shitpostery?
Can we offer you some powdered milk in these trying times?
They auto remove and ban anyone who mentions the fediverse. Or maybe they’ve backtracked on that?
They don’t. Not anymore, at least, if that was a thing. I’ve been mentioning the Fediverse there for years. Comments generally get reasonably high views, but low engagement because people on established platforms rarely want to do anything to fix their issues.
I only access Reddit (and Lemmy) through RSS so when they nuke that in two weeks, I’ll be gone, too.
My RSS feed already stopped sending me Reddit posts. Last ones were about 17 days ago. Ridiculous.
What is a Reddit? /s
Lemmy is the best
It’s super funny to me. They’re so greedy to keep our content that we gave them for free, that they’re going to commit a slow digg.
i have moved to reddit-free experience
