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When I say dead users, I mean ones who have been banned, suspended, or deleted (probably after they got banned). I see this so often when browsing posts, and it is so reflective of the problems I have been faced with as well. I'll be scrolling through a post, and sometimes unironically like 50% of all comments have the stupid little profile picture with its back turned, and when I hover over it it has either been suspended or deleted.

I have been having major issues where I've basically been permanently wiped off the platform over some bullshit permaban and can't get it appealed, and it is just shocking that so many other people are obviously just getting completely swept away by these same bullshit bans. How is Reddit going to survive like this? It's to the point where any sort of long-term engagement on the site just seems impossible because soon enough the CIA-level, all seeing AI will catch you in its net and then you're done.

Even if they miraculously change their system to not have the world's most oppressive ban system, what happens to everyone who's already been banned? Will a decent percentage of the entire platform just be fucked for life because they were on the platform at the wrong place and the wrong time?

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[–] shaquilleoatmeal@lemm.ee 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I’m permabanned for signing in on public WiFi, and since that’s enough to get you kicked off now, I doubt they’ll have many actual human users much longer. It’s like they just want bots, and no one real.

[–] fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 week ago

The thing about a bot Silo is that once people catch on the spell is broken, and anyone can make one there's no moat. If they go to the bar out there well sooner or later find themselves completely irrelevant

Related: https://www.staygrounded.online/p/future-grandmasters-of-the-attention

I don't even remember what the comment was that got me a reddit permaban but it was laughable.

[–] Ghosthacked@lemm.ee 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Their algo keeps permabanning me if I use their Reddit app. I used to bypass it by using patched 3rd party clients, but I'm too old for that nonsense now. I just don't post or do anything on Reddit anymore

[–] TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago

iirc the app keeps your hardware ID stored. you can bypass it with a browser but reddit is going down the drain there's no point.

[–] thermal_shock@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Can't get banned if you don't sign up, just lurk.

[–] Mwa@lemm.ee 3 points 1 week ago

Reddit refugee here i never got my reddit account banned I just put the text I quit on its about me and left reddit (trying to find a alternative which was here on lemmy) but maybe one day it will get banned

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I think you mean a virtual or figurative wasteland. A literal one is a geographical regionwith little or no vegetation or animals.

[–] jenesaisquoi@feddit.org 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The definition of literally has ben changed to mean either literally or figuratively. It's sad.

[–] Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

"Literally" literally means "as written", or "in the literature".

To use the word "literally" to mean "in reality" or "in fact" is not that original meaning, but is literally - in fact, as well as a written thing - a figurative meaning.

Language changes. There are plenty of words that are their own antonyms. It's not sad, it's inevitable, and the sooner you can accept that the sooner you can avert the fate of becoming an old man yelling at clouds.

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Is there a new word that means what literally used to, or do we just have two figurativelys now?

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[–] Widdershins@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

im permabanned poster redditshitposter58. i first started reading reddit when i was about 12. by 14 i got really obsessed with the concept of "shit posting" and tried to channel it constantly, until my posting process got really bizarre and i would repeat things like "amaze balls" and "this" in my head for hours, and i would get really paranoid, start seeing things in the corners of my eyes etc, basically prodromal schizophrenia. im now on antipsychotics. i always wondered what the kind of "bad" style of reddit humor was all about; i think it's the unconscious leaking in to the conscious, what jungian theory considered to be the cause of schizophrenic and schizotypal syptoms. i would advise all people who "use" reddit to be careful because that likely means you have a predisposition to a mental illness. peace.

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