So, reddit’s shit platform is set up so that if you use their default news link it shows subs you have filtered out. Well, I happen to filter subs I’ve been banned from and the cowards at r/worldnews banned me because I said a mean thing about America a while back.

As it turns out… I had not noticed the sub when I was using an alt account and posted a comment to their little walled-garden, and now it seems I’m permabanned from all of Reddit.

And I mean- every account I make is instantly banned-

So my question is:

How can I block all of that shithole from showing up on iOS web searches. I cannot interact with the site. So I’d rather it not appear in web searches altogether.

You could add something like -site:reddit.com to your search query, or alternatively use a search engine like Kagi which allows you to block sites from all future queries.

I believe uBlock Origin is also able to do this, but I'm not sure that is possible to use on iOS (I don't have an iPhone).

Is there anything that will auto-add that to searches?

Maybe a browser extension, but again, I don't run iOS so I'm not sure what is and isn't possible.

Appreciate the help. I’m not even able to appeal it. They hard locked me out of their platform. LMAO. All for accidentally making a comment in a sub I was banned from, using an alt. I even had that sub blocked from my feed.

Sounds like reddit. Highly recommend sticking around here, though!

Yeah. It’s just that there’s subs for games I play where I liked being able to ask questions. Those communities don’t exist here.

I definitely can acknowledge that there are less niche communites here. But the generic communities, especially for gaming, are very popular and I'm sure they'd welcome your questions there!

You can also create the community on your own, if you really wanted a niche community. Frequent quality posts are the way to grow a new community here.

There's a browser extension called uBlacklist, I use it to block all the main social media sites and anyone else who annoys me.

This business of Reddit posts/comments coming up in search is very troubling; a while ago, I was searching for some medical info (on a condition I have and know a fair bit about), and some Reddit things came up so I looked at them for the hell of it. The first thing I read was just completely wrong. Like, totally wrong. I would hope people are being very leery of what they see on reddit, but they probably aren’t. 😕

It is a problem how Reddit became a de facto aggregator of support channels, not just hobbyist communities. DuckDuckGo's sub is the primary DDG support channel, among countless other examples. It positions Reddit as the gatekeeper of Beijing-style "social credit" and getting banned there is tantamount to being Unperson'ed in some contexts.

Sadly numerous LLMs have now been trained on all that wrong info.

Thanks! I just added it and blocked ://.reddit.com/*

Reddit is banning everyone

Seems that way. I insane even given a warning- straight to instant IP site wide ban.

Well said. That’s exactly how it seems.

Yeah. It doesn’t really work that way. Others have created subs for the games I play. There’s like between 1 and 5 people in them and next to no activity. Reddit pretty much much owns game support forums.

Doesn’t work for me.

I mean, only because people allow reddit to own those support forums and don't want to migrate over to anything else. The same thing happened with Discord.

The generic games communities here are very popular, though.

Same happened to me like a year ago, they wont appeal it

not how lemmy works, post to any community with no members/activity and it still shows up on all for everyone because of how low the activity is, this is actually a pro since you get more eyes on your post and more possibility of interaction no matter the community, a lot of your stuff just goes into the void on reddit

If even one person comments it stays on active feeds for anyone who browses that way.
Basically stuff doesn't get buried here, if someones on here and played that game, they don't need to be on the same instance or subbed to see your post

Also only redditors think they are as important as they claim, they are wrong and don't effect the game most of the time since they are a small vocal part of the playerbase. You just feel like you have more agency than you actually do posting there.

There’s far more people posting in Reddit game subs than here. It just a fact. If there’s a question, it’ll get answered. Need help- there’s solutions.

Here, there’s like, one dude in a community that hasn’t seen action in months.

The communities for games here are dead. And there’s not even a community for most games I play.

Why would they, their shareholders fucking stupid enough to believe the bots are actually people. They don’t need it to be accessible to anyone to profit from it.

Reddit is dying. Fortunately the fediverse is nearing critical mass such that every time you visit there is hundreds of new posts to sift through.

Yeah. At this point it seems like it’s mostly bots and childish moderators hanging on to their last shred of authority. Outside of gaming subs, I don’t see how anyone takes it seriously there. I mean, if the shareholders are dumb enough to not know that it’s mostly bots reposting shit by people that abandoned their shit long ago- they deserve to lose it all.