Random Rant: I feel like reddit died after they banned all the “unmoderated” communities. All the posts became sanitized. Now reddit is adding AI and streaks and NFTs to keep people on a platform that has no more content.
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The auto-moderation is terrible and bans you for the dumbest stuff. Reddit has continually gone downhill the last couple years. Ad’s are out of control, and they love to promote religious ads and that should be illegal.
I was permanently banned for saying Trump’s health was poor and he may be dead before 2028 and wont be able to run for a third term. Banned for inciting violence…
I guess reddit really just wants a site full of bots and 50 people who post the same stuff everyday.
I wrote a very fiery letter that I’m sure a bot deleted about how it cheapened the phrase “violence” to have it be slung casually around at speech their shareholders don’t love.
I was banned for saying something to the effect of “Fuck all the Republicans” in response to someone hating on a specific one.
My theory is they are removing all the anti-maga and replacing us with neutral/pro maga bots so it appears that there aren’t so many people against them.
I got banned when I connected to a VPN endpoint (ProtonVPN). Instant, permanent, unappealable ban. 13-year-old account. Sole moderator of a couple subs
Probably for the best though. Screw Reddit
reddit has been coming down hard on vpn users since last year. its futile one they shadowban you, rarely i see peoples ban get lifted on the shadowban sub, apparently and pretty obvious, The user said reddit “made a mistake because thier filters were misconstruing your words for somethng offensive”, i doubt reddit admins have time to look at every appeal, thats why i believe they ignore most of them, if not all accounts that are part of the multiple accounts from a single users.
92 people control about 500+subs on reddit, you can guess which one they are, and the ones less likely to get banned.
I just got an automatic 3 day ban (presumably because my comment contained the word “murder”) so I said “fuck it”, deleted my comments and posts, and deleted my account
Ironically I saw this ad last night.
Openly? Banned.
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Before the API thing there was only one “am I the asshole” subreddit.
What happened? Did the original mods protest and reddit itself just make a new one? I know there were alot of communities that shut down for a day or two when the API changes happened.
i remember the original AITA was private for a while, then came out AITAH, and then AIO, and then a couple of other ones.
now theres like 4 of them, most of them are bots, or written by a person that is gauging peoples reaction(for thier personal projects)
Is that what reddit looks like now??? Gross.
Yes, but add entire threads that are nothing but [removed]
I’m just curious where all the users went if places like Lemmy arent growing. Piefed I heard was growing, but I kind of assumed they are getting users who are switching from Lemmy and still perusing the same content, just preferred their client options
they want a read only site, filled with fake bots, and fake engagement. for the purpose of being read only, for advertisement, or they are planning onf selling the site down the line. the gop and musk, thiel would very much like to have control of something like reddit, especially musk, since he has triggered 2 ban waves when he complained to reddit(they were criticizing him).
ever since REDDIT went public thats whats been happening.
The engagement farming is reaching facebook levels.
that is what reddit is trying to achieve, become a facebook clone. matter of time they push the verification that FACEBOOK uses to make accounts, if they get"suspicious"
What is the 99.99 stuff? NFT ? Avatar?
Reddit is really the only online place that embraced NFTs and maintained an ecosystem with them. It’s a small ecosystem, but they use them in all their absurdly nihilistic glory.
If I understand correctly you can buy a NFT to use as your profile picture. But its completely useless since the only place you will ever see it as a tiny icon next to your name in the comments and on the profile page that no one visits.
Reddit says that most of these are “limited runs” but that’s BS because “limited” can mean they made 5 or 5 000 000.
Both, I believe. I haven’t used reddit for a while, but when I was on there and they were selling NFTs, they were both avatars (more specifically, a combination of outfit pieces you could mix and match with other pieces from other NFT and non-NFT avatars) and a collectible at once.
I honestly don’t have much of a problem with how they did NFTs as avatars. If you want to monetize your platform in a way that doesn’t paywall any actual features or meaningfully impact the user experience, go for it. But they really started to go hog wild on it and promoted it so persistently that it felt like you were being made to care about a profile picture you probably wouldn’t have remembered you even had otherwise.
i noticed the unmoderated communities banned a while ago and didn’t realize that was a recent change. The ones I noticed were pretty obscure. I’m using old.reddit.com while it still works so haven’t seen much issue with AI and NFT’s, at least so far. (I don’t post but I still lurk). Most annoying recent change was they shut down the PM system in favor of their shitty chat system.
Reddit is run by evil and ill-intentioned people but it is fairly well executed in terms of keeping user engagement. Lemmy by comparison is, at least for now, nowhere near as lively. Lemmy has much better intentions but I think its execution made mistakes. If I were king of Lemmy, I’d reorganize its software and protocols in the hope of helping it run at bigger scale. But, it’s still early days.
yea i knew a unmodered sub that was banned for having next to no post or moderators, but that is a very very small and niche sub.
The worst part is the Contributor Quality Score, which is the subjective version of karma.
If you’re not a bot, then you have to spend a lot of real time producing acceptable content to get to do anything YOU want to do. You literally have to grind Reddit to be able to post in some subs, even if your account is older than the hills and has positive karma.
First time I’m hearing of the CQS. Wow, just wow. Dystopian shit.
New account experience on Reddit in 2025:
- Create an account;
- Post something on a subreddit that has AutoMod configured to instantly remove posts/comments from new accounts, accounts with low karma or accounts with low CQS;
- Get a site-wide shadowban because your first contribution was removed;
- If you’re unaware of shadowbans, keep using the site, leaving comments, thinking nobody replies to you because you’re not that interesting;
- If you’re aware of them, keep trying to appeal with zero effect.
Fuck Steve Huffman and fuck his enshittified site.
I recently started what’s probably my 15th account for a single topic. Same exact thing happened to me.
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Thank you for including a link; this sounds like a fucking joke.
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A week or so ago, I got permanently suspended by an auto mod. I posted some link it didn’t like, I think it was this one: https://welcometothemachine.co/ which is about how all the filthy rich CEOs sit on each other’s boards of directors, which is a bit ironic because this site is just a compilation of posts from one user that appeared on Reddit five years ago. I still read Reddit, but I don’t care about participating.
reddit takes a much harsher stance against links now. people have to "refer to the site, rather than dropping the link.
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So you gave up on it like a decade ago?
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You gave up on Reddit because mods can ban you for random reasons unrelated to your behavior? That’s one of a small set of problems that’s literally much worse and more prevalent on Lemmy.
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slip in their own mods and rebrand the whole community
This is what really shocked me about reddit, was how it’s this really huge entity whose owners just somehow didn’t notice that the front page being shown to everyone by default contained stuff from subs that were really very blatantly and obviously manipulated by mods not being on the level. I realize you can’t police every one of the thousands of active subs on there, but what gets to go to the front page shouldn’t need much curation.
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That happens here constantly
I’ve only ever seen this from the kids over at .ml.
Irony is that people in .ml ban you for not agreeing with their hivemind
How is that ironic?
People claim Lemmy is supposed to be “better” than Reddit but so far I’ve encountered more petty barons here than Reddit
Ah OK. To be fair, we can say Luigi Mangione and Free Palestine here.
Outside of the conservative American subreddits that’s standard too though. I rarely see anyone (not downvoted to hell) claim Israel should continue
I’ve heard this a few times, and then I’ve seen the people that got banned…
.ml seems to be a magnet for people who want to scream explicatives at leftists and throw in some transphobia to boot.
Some people likely deserve getting banned but they have a very fragile echo chamber if they need to ban anyone not toeing the party line.
I was in an argument with someone on .ml unironically calling north Korea democratic and then they banned me because apparently I’m a “chauvinistic westerner” when I disagreed. I found that pretty hilarious.
they have a very fragile echo chamber
They have an active moderator base.
I’ve been banned from plenty of communities already - particularly meme communities - in the wider Fediverse for rubbing a mod the wrong way. It isn’t particular to .ml and it’s silly to see Lemmyites panic every time they see an .ml instance user or post.
unironically calling north Korea democratic
So what? Plenty of people in America call Florida democratic. You’ll be screamed at for suggesting otherwise (Florida voters are just too stupid to vote correctly, you see).
If you get in a pissing contest with a mod or power user, there are plenty of communities that will ban you for being toxic. Either learn to exit the conversation gracefully or stop sticking your dick in the social media blender to begin with. You’re probably better off getting banned than running back in for another screaming match.
I’d argue NK and Florida are on different levels of democratic but I see your point.
You’re probably right with your last paragraph. I do find it amusing to read when they bend backwards trying to defend something that absurd.
I recently checked out the front page out of curiosity. It was really weak, meme wise, and content wise, i didn’t scroll more than 2 pages. I understand that the niche communities are the best part but there isn’t anything enticing to me there anymore.
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After being there for 12 years, I was banned for no reason I know of. Appealed it a bunch of times and finally gave up. Done with reddit. Maybe I’ll grab content from there for here.
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even if they lifted a ban, people have reported being re-shadowbanned almost quickly anyways, because they dont clean out thier filters, after someone ban has been lifted. you only need to look at reddit wrong to get banned. new users, old accounts are not safe.
only the determined people will ban evade, have new IP address, new device, and other methods of ban evasions. those that make hundreds if not thousands of accounts to earn money from.
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browser canvas size, fingerprinting, they look at your screen resolution, your browser size, the current version, if your browser is minimized,etc. there are ways to hide that, but you probably have to go to a different forums how to do it.
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yes i would love for you to consider lemmy as your new base for you
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Can I just say, without invalidating your underlying concerns, that this place truly gets better when you start blocking communities and individuals, and doing so knee-jerk if necessary with no thought or remorse.
The tip of the identity iceberg doesn’t need to come into play, really. I’ve learned that in this world there are contributors and detractors. There are those who add, and those who take. There are good faith contributors, and there are misanthropes who aren’t happy until everybody else isn’t happy.
I don’t care what race or age a person is, if there’s an MS article and the only thing they do is show up to vandalize the comments section with the single word Linux… I’m blocking the fuck out of 'em immediately. I block people confidently braying opinions where you need but scratch the surface to see how ill-considered they are. I feel no duty to correct these people or listen to another word, its not my job to fix them. Blocked. Show up in a legitimate policy discussion just to bash out fuck [politician]"? Blocked - dialogue at the level of a surly grade 8 student isn’t my jam.
Would I want a friend IRL that just says whatever’s convenient at any time, regardless of how germane, factual, useful, or genuine? Or would I avoid them IRL because they’re a nightmare? That internal reflection guides a lot of my block decisions. Also why I find it so easy.
To summarize my novella, I think this is how I made my Lemmy experience more sane, because it was borderline intolerable at first. To the plus, it only took about 20 or 30 blocks to realize that almost all of the toxicity arose from a small batch of select kooks.
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Talk about dramatic. Bro just block people and get on with your life.
hello (third world shithole, failed cs student reporting here)
Reddit died long ago, we are just flies tipping on it’s rotting corpse
vultures(AI) are just pecking at the decomposing corpse.
