I got banned for making fun of elon. (I posted a pic of a ken dolls non-existent genitals and said, Elon post penis surgery.)

User culture change for sure. The subversive, progressive, smarmy nerds that used to hang out there were "my people" so to speak. The shift to a 50/50 mix of bots and soccer moms made it kinda useless as a forum. Lemmy isn't quite the same, but I think it's a good thing. Much less culturally homogeneous, but 100% authentic.

The gamification of Reddit. Stickers, awards, achievements, all for creating content and engagement, regardless of quality. Now they have actual games in Reddit where you can win awards for... Stuff... I guess. I refuse to engage with any of it.

Deep ties with NFT and crypto. The NFT side died, finally, because nobody really engaged with it. I was given an NFT avatar on Reddit for free, with a whole lot of advertising to engage in lootboxes and such. My response to that was essentially "ok. And fuck you". It's still doing cryptoshit, though, but doesn't advertise it anymore.

Are you a moderator of a loving community? Hate what Reddit has done? Wanna protest? No you can't. If reddit doesn't like your opinion, or you protest against some of their actions, they'll just remove you from the sub you created and the new owner will be some schmuck who agrees to everything.

Unfortunately the one place with the most engagement to solving Linux issues are still the Linux subreddits. I was hoping Linux was more prevalent on Lemmy, but it's not...

Ah that's a shame, I must be lucky so far

The mod for r/AdultChildrenofNarcissists disappeared, and replacement essentially admitted that they were running an experiment and couldn't give more details because it would ruin the experiment. They also said they were going to try to remove the anti-parent bias in the subreddit. So much for that support group.

So anyway, r/AdultKidsofNarcissists was created, but there's no reason to think that same sort of thing didn't happen to a bunch of other subreddits. They will eventually sell the comment database to someone who'll run a poorly thought out LLM and find red flags by cross referencing a support group subreddit with other subreddits and cause real world consequences. It isn't enough to stop using reddit now; they already have the posts and will have them forever.

So much of it is people just ditching about things in their lives looking for validation.

Nothing is about anything anymore.

It was really fun a long time ago; getting gifts/exchanging gifts. Secret Santa. Making artwork and just trading it for stuff, lots of subs. And overtime all of that was gone. It became a hateful festering pile of shit. Once reddit became "old" it was done and it showed. It really became a hardcore data mining trash bin. Getting multiple down votes for things I disagreed with was it for me; not that I care about the down votes, it's just there was no comments no interaction. Reddit maybe has a few more years left in my opinion, with new users only joining because it was indirectly advertised by the people that made it what it is. It's like Regr'etsy, wasn't too bad on launch to hey allibaba or temu is in the house!

No story, just dozens (hundreds?) of wasted hours reading slop (the human kind at first, but increasingly also the bot kind later)

that was pretty common last year. thats how whole swaths of people got eliminated and are now lurking. because multiple accounts have each generate thier own content

i heard most regional subs have been astroturfed by right wingers, i wouldnt be surprised it came from 1 source.

thats like what happened to cities, states on the west coast. all were controlled by conservatives.

they use alot of fingerprinting to find your other accounts, likely used the same IP/DEVICE that recieved the other bans and they just connected the dots. i made an account after a year of shadowbanned all my old accounts. the new ones i use with a different FORK browser, (maybe there was a Ip change) thats why they arnt catching on,. reddit has unofficial unbanning after a while of getting ban, but usually it wont work if you had so many accounts banned. i think a new ID/browser/device is enough. im still using the same device, possibly ip but a different browser.

they have fingerprinting methods too, like your looking at your browser version, your time zone, and other things. they know people evade by changing thier IP alot, so they upgraded.

some forks have anti-fingerprinting, but they have ways of detecting things like device components. they are pretty much catching onto anti-detect browsers, and ip switching methods(cost money) that isnt a vpn.

i used librewolf now for reddit purposes, maybe thats why my new account dint get hit yet. i also avoid any political subs. for a month brave hid my old account before it was shadowbanned last year, i stopped using that. how do you change the GPU acc? im interested.

2025, was basically ban-apocalypse. definitely around time, i noticed quite alot of people being reported, and ban around eleciton time, so it happened quite alot before nov 5 too.

admins are complicit, they know you were likely fighting against TROLLS/propaganda even, reddit has no interest in dealing with these. currently they are now given AI tools themselves.

only the small niche subs remain pretty quiet, the ones that inundated with posts every few hours.

unfortunately those "forever' alone get draw into the incel manosphere and become mysogynist themselves. its in games too, where people get talk to other characthers, yucky incel talks.

before they were called incel, it was the "nice guy"

reddit wants AI mods to replace the human ones now.

the cat subs, are just sad posts, its always "our cat died" like 90% of the posts now.

what i did before was create extra account and let it sit unused, incased one got hit by a temp ban, or too many sub bans. now people have to wait 1+years, if yuo arnnt a serial ban evader.

crosbanning is very strange, it happens on lemmy too, at least 2-3 communities have crossbanned me for barely participating in those communities, and they give any reason at all. and its the communities that have problems with. (STar trek website, 196, and dbzer

DND sounds kinda degenerate to play with, im guessing thats why it remains in sucha small group.

r/conspiracy is probably reddits cash cow for engagement on the site, thats why its on the front page alot of the times.

it only blocks 1000 people, but it stops muting them after. and you can still see the blocked the posts too.

its mostly AI posts in the front pages. any politics, news, music, ask, AITA(variants), dinner diaries,,,etc. the less known niche ones of the last 2 dont really have bots, so its super quiet.

2016,2017, when they unleashed the banhammer on many subs. because of trumps 1st term, and thats when russia realized that reddit was prime for ragebaiting, thats why the bans started then.

most of the posts were just twitter retweets, reposted.

openai and GOOGLE to be exact. but OPENAi stopped participating, which was the drop in traffic and resulted in REDDIT forcing logins now, also at the same time googles try to force you to use your phone to have a google account. they did this at the same time.

That's true. I still need some of the communities there because they are so small here. Mostly fitness ones

apparently that "change yuor password" was designed by reddit to confirm thier ban for you.

politics is the #1 place to get banned quite fast, followed by NEWS, and then any adjacent subs. funny thing whitepeopletwitter never banned, you had to try very hard to get banned for saying the same thing not as a conservative.

Is it the same one?

In therir defense, that's just body shaming and not criticism against his behavior/wrongdoings/actions.

it all changed around 2016-17, when russia started using bot/propaganda for the first time. it was downhill from there. at first reddit was good at "cutting the bots" off, but then realized they were removing engagement so they half assed it.

i heard people will try to take over subreddits by brigading mods til htey quit or get banned.

Elon is very aware of reddit posts about him, everytime he tells spez to ban people, spez triggers a ban wave,.

Got into a thread that was all transphobia. Not the subtle kind, but totally messed up. I was furious nothing was done about it. Glued to my phone, I reported every single one.

Next day I was suspended for abuse of report button. Unfair, but here's the kicker: It was a report 6 months earlier in a different sub, completely different topic.

So these shithead mods let transphobia bullshit slide, then got mad at me for flooding their mod queue, report me, and someone looked through my earlier reports to find something. The reports in that transphobic threads were legit. Mods should have been punished but it was me.

What stops them from crawling this site though?

not all was slop.

I had shared a few tifu posts that actually did really well you probably read if you frequented that board. I think one of them got around 17k upvotes and was featured on some prominent YouTube channels.

I said that nuclear arms race was just stupid at this point.

"I'll kill everyone"

"If you kill everyone I'll kill everyone"

"Well I can kill everyone 3 times over"

"If you kill everyone 3 times over I'll kill everyone 20 times over"

"Oh yeah? We're working on a way to kill everyone 200 times over"

Anyway that got me a 3 week ban for inciting violence. When I pressed the appeal button and said "its actually condemning violence, theres context there" it got upgraded to a permanent ban.

That was the 3rd time I got banned. The first time was from typing "genji main btw" into an overwatch post complaining about how theres no people playing support.

was banned when I told a Nazi they should "experience the freedom of Auschwitz" if they were true believers. and to not worry about what others have said because "the work you will do there, will set you free".

mods didn't like that and banned me. oh yeah, the Nazi just continued to post white supremacy bullshit.

Probably nothing, but at least the people running our instances aren’t directly involved in doing it to us. The people behind this community aren’t pretending that it’s OK to exploit other people who are just trying to connect with each other. And even if OpenAI still slurps up our data, Sam Altman and the other AI billionaires don’t make as much money off of us because they don’t own Lemmy.world and don’t profit off of any deals or ads here. These things make a big difference to me.

I'm not that suprised, lemmy still suffers from there being many choices of instance and their not being a convenient way to compare which ones federate with which other ones.

I cant remember which sub it was, but I posted something along the line of "If Israel doesn't stop this genocide, they're gonna find out soon."

I was perma banned by a zionist mod for inciting violence.

No place to spit in a rich mans house but his face

Reddit just sucks. That’s all there is to it. Bots, trolls, /hailcorporate, forced ads, forced app, bans, the API debacle, getting rid of Victoria, quarantining everything while leaving right wing trash subs brigading other subs, hivemind, karmawhoring, race to be the quip for karma no matter how serious the subject… so many reasons to avoid the place in general.

3 day ban for "They (here meaning men in the American southeast) hate electric vehicles almost as much as they hate black people."