Spez made his money, he doesn't give a fuck anymore.

He's milking the cow as much as he can before butchering its corpse.

Yeah, I think this is a common experience. I quit a couple of years ago when they did the API thing, but the impression I get is that loads of people have been getting banned for similarly ridiculous reasons. Seems kinda self destructive. I left voluntarily, but I'd been there a long time, over ten years, think I had almost a million comment karma. This is also the case for many of the people getting banned - users who'd been there a really long time and who were mostly people who contributed content and comments. Maybe management thought they don't need the old school users now they have bots, and bots that can slip in product endorsements and try to manipulate political opinion. In fact, a lot of the people who'd been around the longest and contributed most were probably more likely to notice and complain about the huge influx of bots and bullshit.

Still seems self destructive, though, but I guess after the IPO short term gains are more important than community. Their loss is Lemmy's gain. Like you say, fuck em.

Punching Nazis is a specific thing that has gotten a lot of people banned, myself included. Which is weird because it's something I've said for years, but I think it was after the DOGE incident they really started clamping down on it as "inciting violence."

There's never not a good time.

Yeah, kinda like a long, slimy tail. Dragging on the ground when he walks down the street, getting dirt and cigarette butts stuck to it. He'd have to kinda throw it over his shoulder to keep it from getting stepped on, so occasionally it would fart sadly, right next to his face.

I'd love for Spez to have the same experience I'm having with a kidney stone.

I hope when he gets canned they also ban him from the site itself.

1% of people actually contribute. Many of those 1% have left or were banned for criticizing the president and ICE. The comments I see lately are becoming more like instagram. Just easy observations and drivel. Some of them are like paragraphs of AI slop that hurts my brain trying to comprehend.

Every time I use it now I usually get into trolly arguments with others. It's just not a happy place anymore. "Reddiquite" (spelling) died a long time ago.

I just browsed /r/nba for basketball news. A couple of days ago they started throwing up unavoidable popup overlays after a few seconds. This was helpful because it made me realize that I don't really give a fuck about basketball news. Buhbye /r/felicia.

The bots have doubled since companies figured out AI chatbots scrape the site and use its comments as gospel.