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.
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.
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.
Same, also 12 years in and no history of problems. Quoted someone calling a female user a “bitch” so they couldn’t edit and reported them, I got flagged and banned from the large subreddit for “using a slur.” I appealed and had the pleasure of talking to a
modgrade-schooler with temper problems so the appeal was denied and as a result, somehow… for reasons that are still unclear, my entire account was then banned. Admins did not care. I made a new account and was shadowbanned immediately.I could go through the hoops and change my IP and all that fun stuff if I really want to participate on reddit.
But I don’t.
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.
Yah I went through all that, you have to really clean your browser before and after resetting your IP, and if you use anything connected to your old account you will be immediately shadowbanned, as well as if you use a VPN to sign up, or even to log in.
I eventually gave up, it’s too much work to interact with bots and brainless people.
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.
I heard about that from my darkweb days. It’s amazing how much of a fingerprint everyone leaves. I decided that if I have to fire up TOR and encryption to talk to redditors who are often bots anyway, it’s probably a dead platform
yes i would love for you to consider lemmy as your new base for you
Lemmy has more personal interaction but it’s still a deeply niche culture made up largely of younger white males who really, really like linux and while I align with leftists, it gets tiring seeing leftists and tankies bickering with each other rather than real debates between people with actual divergent ideology. While reddit also has it’s own demographic problems, there are places where you can get a broader range of ideas and diversity.
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.
I fully appreciate the advice, and I have been hammering the block button, but every time I do a small part of my faith in humanity chips away like a crumbling old statue the represented a forgotten empire.
I am sad that so many people are unthinking, unfeeling, or deeply unserious where it matters. But here we are, forced to prune and further the atomization of our failed world because there is no alternative. There’s no arguing nor reasoning with people who interact with others only to address their inner feelings and not with care or consideration that we share an objective reality we have to agree on.
With AI and immersive experiences, this is all going to get even worse.
Talk about dramatic. Bro just block people and get on with your life.
hello (third world shithole, failed cs student reporting here)