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[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Can't kill a reanimated corpse, reddit is already dead.

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[–] ekZepp@lemmy.world 375 points 4 days ago (28 children)
[–] renegadespork@lemmy.jelliefrontier.net 136 points 4 days ago (9 children)

Me literally every time my friends start bitching about Instagram.

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[–] pleaseletmein@lemmy.zip 61 points 3 days ago (16 children)

I got my 15 year old account permanently banned for filing one report against a user who was stalking my profile to call me slurs. (This was “abusing the report button”, apparently.) Everyone in my household got their accounts banned alongside mine. It’s very strange how the site is being run now.

[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 31 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Yeah. When my 12 year old account got banned I stopped caring about that site and started creating new accounts every week and just posting whatever the hell I wanted without feeling like I needed to censor myself anymore. So their ban happy culture tends to have the opposite effect of what they want.

There's a browser script out there that auto-adds all your subs back from your old account, so it really wasn't even inconvenient for me other than the 2 minutes it takes to create a throwaway email account and create a new throwaway Reddit account.

And yeah, their methods for preventing you from coming back end up preventing others using the same computer or in the same household from coming back, so they just lose users. Their methods aren't very sophisticated though, so it's pretty easy to avoid them.

Shit site.

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[–] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 18 points 3 days ago (5 children)

"Let's get rid of our longest running users, that should help the site move forward."

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[–] selkiesidhe@sh.itjust.works 46 points 3 days ago (3 children)

I got banned for updooting Luigi stuff.

And I'll fucking do it again!

[–] TangledHyphae@lemmy.world 13 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I only got a warning, they said if I did it again I could face a site-wide ban though. Pretty disturbing that they're tracking upvotes to a post.. they said I also upvoted a Luigi comment.. but in both cases, they wouldn't tell me specifically which post or comment triggered it.

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[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 293 points 4 days ago (27 children)

At the risk of agreeing with Reddit:

Under new rules rolling out over the coming months, a small number of users will be required to leave some of their moderator posts so that they aren’t moderating more than five subreddits with 100,000 monthly visitors.

That sounds perfectly reasonable. Reddit has a massive powermod problem.

[–] tabular@lemmy.world 139 points 4 days ago (11 children)

Given Reddit's past unreasonableness, I wouldn't be surprised if this otherwise reasonable explanation has an alternative motive.

[–] db2@lemmy.world 78 points 4 days ago (5 children)
[–] krunklom@lemmy.zip 56 points 4 days ago

While ulterior is probably a better way to say that alternative motive also makes sense given the context.

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[–] Surp@lemmy.world 19 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Lol fuck reddit cuck mods anyways.

[–] Holytimes@sh.itjust.works 16 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Working for free for a major company should be considered a mental illness. If your going to volunteer your time do it to an actual good cause.

Not fucking reddit.

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[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 60 points 4 days ago (10 children)

I got a lifetime ban after 12 years on Reddit. I still have no clue why, and I really, really don't care.

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[–] MaxPow3r11@lemmy.world 45 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I got banned for criticizing billionaires.

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[–] deczzz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 3 days ago (10 children)

'member when redditors would ALL leave because of the API restrictions? This will have no real effect whatsoever. I'm glad that most redditors didn't move to lemmy.

[–] StarvingMartist@sh.itjust.works 15 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Strong words from a former reddit refugee, my man, we were the redditors that moved to Lemmy

[–] ebolapie@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Nobody hates Reddit more than redditors.

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[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

That's when I left. Haven't turned back

[–] T00l_shed@lemmy.world 19 points 3 days ago

I mean, I sure did

Some did leave, just not nearly as many compared to the numbers that claimed they would.

Thats when I left and made a Lemmy account instead.

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[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 35 points 3 days ago (6 children)

Reddit has been dead since February, when Spez met with The Goblin, and then permabanned thousands, maybe millions of highly active accounts, including me. I was permabanned for repeating a post I had made many times with no issues. After 12 years, and almost a million Karma, I was suddenly too dangerous to allow on the platform, along with thousands of others.

We high volume posters built Reddit, but we shifted from being assets to problems after Trump was elected again.

[–] HuskerNation@lemmy.zip 18 points 3 days ago (1 children)

"subreddits will stop displaying subscriber counts and instead show their “unique number of unique visitors over the last seven days, based on a rolling 28-day average,” Reddit’s rep said. Notably, old.reddit.com will not get these new stats but will still lose subscriber counts"

They are hiding,for stock purposes, their declining numbers from everyone they have banned. 12 year user I never said anything outlandish just dark humor that I always have. Stuff that would have been easily ok 10 years ago. Nope no more

[–] FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 1 points 2 days ago

Unique visitor numbers are much, much more important than total subscriber numbers though. Total subscriber numbers include accounts that have been inactive for years.

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[–] TemplaerDude@sh.itjust.works 18 points 3 days ago (1 children)

lol of course power mods would say that.

Fuck that dumbass site.

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[–] sqgl@sh.itjust.works 12 points 3 days ago

average of over 60,000 daily active moderators” that month, which, at the time, would mean that 0.1 percent of all mods equals 600 people.

No, it equals 60 people.

[–] hanrahan@slrpnk.net 15 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I kibd of agree.with this one, on the other hand reddit is not my circus and those mods are not my monkeys.

Hell, I never understood why anyone worked for free to make the owners richer ? Here I get (and thank you), like an old school BBS but reddit makes zero sense as a mod.

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Fuck Reddit. It needs to die, along with discord.

[–] abbiistabbii@lemmy.blahaj.zone 31 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Breaking news: Reddit is on fire again. In other news, rain contains water and Twitter is full of Nazis. More at ten.

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[–] Blackfeathr@lemmy.world 65 points 4 days ago (7 children)

I'm starting to get convinced that Redditors and mods are just gluttons for punishment by that platform.

They're planning on kneecapping old.reddit in this update too, and you see all the typical howling about "if they kill old.reddit I'm leaving fr this time" while at the same time, another big thread one comment lower is about all the ridiculous bans that people have gotten. And this is a mere two years after the API fiasco.

Why do people continue to use a platform that has proven time and time again that the asshole(s) in charge do not give a single fuck about them?

[–] FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 1 points 2 days ago

How are they kneecapping old.reddit?

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[–] FenderStratocaster@lemmy.world 84 points 4 days ago (18 children)

The best way to leave reddit is to get permabanned.

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[–] PonderousParrot@lemmy.world 25 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I joined after getting some weird warning about upvoting comments reddit didn't like. That left a sour taste in my mouth.

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[–] BilboBargains@lemmy.world 21 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Got banned from the stims community after satirically commenting 'I'm 14 and what is this?'

The moderator demanded that I submit identity documents. I pointed out that the account was twelve years old but they couldn't back down at this point. I think they were trying to do a good job and were at least active but it was another nail in the coffin. In theory, an unpaid mod could be more objective because there's no profit motive but the reality is that many are ideologically biased or dumb or controlling and none of them are trained. That any single individual wants to be in charge of the narrative is suspicious. Scale that ambition up to hundreds of thousands or millions of people it's a red flag. Reddit is completely cooked these days, I haven't returned since finding Lemmy.

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[–] Mubelotix@jlai.lu 35 points 4 days ago

Funny to hear from the new mods that replaced their predecessors during the protest. Now it's their turn to be replaced

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