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Mike Hardaker, who has maintained a Reddit account for 20 years, has been shadow-banned on Reddit. He has posted an update on X, stating that Reddit requires an ad spend to restore organic posting. This demand was given to him in writing.

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[–] dandylion@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

there are still people on reddit? thats a bot hell

[–] 0_o7@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 months ago

Remember when users used to flood reddit subs to find support, real opinions, express dissatisfaction, criticize bad feature/products, and warn others?

Now, the people who complain get flooded by astroturfing bots run by marketing agencies to say they're holding it wrong, not important enough, doing something wrong while praising corporation overtaking governments.

Now that Google has partnered with reddit, they get to have many searches sending troves of people there expecting solutions or like minded people or community support.

So, yea there are still people.

[–] 87Six@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Can anyone tell me what the fuck an organic account and organic posting is? Is this the def?

Organic social media refers to unpaid content that individuals and brands share on social media to engage audiences without paid ads or direct selling.

And if so, wtf. I mean, I expected nothing less from the Reddit zionist cesspool, but still...

[–] fubarx@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago
[–] webdoodle@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 months ago

At least they put it in writing. They suspended and deleted all of my 15 years of posts, comments and moderating without even a good by. Fuck Spez, and Fuck Reddit may they reap the whirlwind.

[–] orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The person in the email strikes me as a contradiction. On the one hand, they're posting their pronouns presumably to indicate some sort of support for inclusivity? On the other hand, they're actively strong-arming and bullying a person into paying for normal access...

I'm sure it's fully lost on that person. It feels so discordant to me.

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago

It's a form of rainbow capitalism.

[–] motruck@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 months ago

You mean a company that owns a platform is operating it only to make money? Shocking. You already were fooled once with the first reddit exodus. Now it is just shame on you for expecting things not to go this way.

[–] THE_GR8_MIKE@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Fuck reddit and all the admins that attempt to run it.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 points 2 months ago

REDDIT is most AI and propaganda posts and bot posting.

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