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Shadow bans.
My wife tried to post a bunch on art related communities only to have her account banned without us knowing. She does oil paintings and other such art pieces. You had to have a history before you could post...which no one was willing to tell her. So her account got shadow banned. She gave up after a while on reddit. I dont blame her.
I hope we never get so petty.
On top of that, bullshit "reputation" rules should never exist here.
When I first made my reddit account years ago, I remember being so confused when I couldn't post more than one comment every 10 minutes (absolute bullshit arbitrary restriction), and when I tried to join a community with "too low karma." "Oops, you can't do that cause you're an unpopular nobody and we don't want you here... Yet."
What's the actual point of holding someone back from joining your online community if they don't have enough "points" on their comments or posts? It's just such bullshit imo, and restricts everything an online forum should be.
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You mean like how you will never see this comment because I made fun of Rimu and Piefed on memes only posted to lemmy.ml so my account was deleted from piefed.socialcredit instance with the reason "Nasty" having never posted there?
This.
I also choose this guys wife.
In fairness, that one does get a giggle from me. Every time. Even this one. Especially this one.
Giggity. (Please forgive me.)
Are they still as bad about assuming everyone's a white cis het man, too?
I forgot about these kinds of comments ace I really don't miss these kinds of comments.
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I do this a lot, but I atleast follow or with a paragraph of context.
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Ultra toxic anti communist far right.
Repost bots and hidden post histories
The proudly and openly racist comments - particularly towards Arabic people.
Censorship and manipulation
Reddit is basically an American psyop machine. The censorship is alarmingly heavy. It bizarre and I'm surprised more people aren't talking about it because it's seems so extreme. It's like a government tool now.
Piefed is working hard to bring reddit style censorship and manipulation to the fediverse
Redditors- I mean AI, Ads, gold, archived posts, and probably more I don't want to remember
And my axe!
Don't forget deleted or spoiled comments
Karma farming accounts. Bot commenters.
Fucking Spezes
Bans and heavy moderation of content.
I'm glad some of the reddit copy communities here like DankMemes died quickly because it was being run by the same loser mods from reddit.
So far I've only been banned from I think maybe 2 communities ever. The only one I remember is one of the NCD communities because the lead mod was a dumb dumb.
I don't really care about complaints of specific instance users because unpopular opinions and comments deserve to be seen, otherwise you create an echo chamber.
So long as there is no brigading, it is much healthier to see everyone's input.
Also I hope the r/Chodi crowd never finds lemmy lol.
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Certainly karma.
Unsolicited bot comments.
One to correct a minor grammar mistake, a second to call the first pedantic, and a bunch of good bot/bad bot replies to both, and now half the comment section is noise.
They're rarely funny or interesting past the first time you encounter them, and their creators never willing to acknowledge that they've unleashed a pest.
Perhaps its too late for the largest instances, but the idea of a site like this being a spectator activity, about consumption, rather than creating communities. Some smaller instances, and even some larger ones, have an actual unique atmosphere and have larger projects across the instance. When we suddenly got a flood of reddit users escaping from the third-party API fiasco and the Luigi bans, that was huge enough to dilute some of the communities with large amounts of people used to simply voting and commenting, or having a website premade for them.
Ads
Astroturfing
Questions about reddit
That time they made the up/down-vote arrows slightly smaller in the mobile UI, without notice or changing anything else, so we all spent a solid week confused about why we were suddenly misclicking it on every post.
Thankfully, I don't think it could happen here since there's like a million different equally popular mobile clients, and they all release changelogs.
Censorship
Remembering reddit exists at all. Why can't people stop obsessing over reddit and just enjoy the fediverse?
"why dont you just google it smh"
Overly restricting and subjective deletions and bans for low quality. (Eg: /r/casualuk)
Hear me out - restricting based on low quality sounds great, right? Until it's your post that's blocked. And you know it isn't low quality, is unique and offers a new perspective. Some mods have genuinely forgotten that it's (mostly) humans at the other end of their actions, or haven't forgotten and enjoy being dicks.
everything i hoped to never see is already here and has been here since the original redditor exodus after that whole API fiasco
the misogyny, the barely-disguised racism, the western chauvinism, the excessive hostility and pedantry, and did i mention the misogyny? holy shit there's so much misogyny
Banning you from communities x and y as soon as you post in community z. Such petty BS
rage bait posts/ subs in the vein of Am I the Asshole
Search something innocent and the first post is porn.
The Reddit culture of just hating on random people's objectively harmless hobbies/interests/preferences. Think "snark" subreddits and similar. And if you call them out on it suddenly you're the problem.
Channel that hate toward things that actually do harm if anything.
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