Lots of people have been banned, across all their accounts, with no recourse, and new accounts suffer the same fate

My fiancée lost over a third of her followers overnight, and asked a mod she knows what was happening.

She was told that anyone who had been banned, for any reason whatsoever was being indiscriminately purged, with device fingerprinting and other mechanisms used to keep them from finding a way back in

Apparently it has been happening in stages, so that’s why there are waves of mass-bans

Reddit seems determined to cut themselves off at the knees, so here’s hoping that Digg and Lemmy can shine and learn from the mistakes of Reddit

  • toy_boat_toy_boat@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 months ago

    i just gave up after being:

    • permanently suspended for absolutely no apparent reason about a year ago
    • countless frivolous comment and post removals
    • being permanently suspended again on my new account for saying something bad about the united states

    it’s all VC crap now anyways, and huffman is a little bitch. go over there now and check out /r/popular or /r/all and it’s all bot reposts, bot comments, ai slop, and fucking “what movie/film/timeyoutookashit reminds you of this?” posts. they’re absolutely no good for any news any more, whether it’s media/grassroots/groundlevel/societal.

    i don’t understand how they think they’ll gain value when their goal appears to be to strip any and all of what provided any value in the first place: unfiltered human contribution and interaction.

    fuck reddit

  • Wooki@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Remember kids, now is the time to slowly edit your old posts and comments replace them with AI gibberish and then after a while slowly delete them.

  • RedditAdminsSuckIt@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Like… why though??

    Banning with impunity like that to the extent of keeping you or anyone in the household for coming back forever no matter how small the transgression… is insane.

    I’ve had MANY unsavory back and forths with people over the last 12 years on Reddit but to just say fuck you never ever ever come back and we’ve made steps to ensure it is weird. Batshit crazy

    • GrindingGears@lemmy.ca
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      3 months ago

      It’s pretty wack. I’m just hoping Lemmy flares up again, like it’s so heartening to see it taking off, but at the same time it’s a bit disheartening to see a lot of threads with only like 2-3 comments.

      I just have to teach myself to not comment on reddit anymore, or interact with anything there. Eventually hopefully never return.

      • RedditAdminsSuckIt@lemmy.world
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        13 days ago

        I know this comment has aged but I just wanted to come back and say, Reddit is worse now than when you made this comment.

        I spent the last 3 days on the site (in guest mode) and holy shit, the censorship is bonkers.

        Just comment on the posts here even if it is only 2-3 comments. Comment even if there’s no comments. Let’s build this shit up.

  • TaldenNZ@lemmy.nzEnglish
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    4 months ago

    Heh. I’ve been blocked from a programming subreddit for being ‘too directly helpful’. Apparently the dozen to-and-fro conversations weren’t enough to show that OP needed more concrete direction.

    Hilarious if that sees me banned from the platform at some point.

  • ef9357@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    I got banned for saying that I check the obituaries daily, hoping <to see trumps name >.

  • Chozo@fedia.io
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    4 months ago

    I once said that nazis who got punched in the face didn’t deserve any sympathy. Literally wrote “they do not deserve sympathy”, nothing that actually encouraged or glorified the heroic act of punching nazis. I got a site-wide, week-long ban for that.

    Fuck Reddit. Punch nazis.