cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/50252054

The irony is that me, a real person, gets banned and banned some more, for saying something pro-Republican back in 2012, while these bot accounts spray slop all over the site with immunity.

Eventually their stock price will crater if the platform hollows out any more. Companies pay a lot of money for advertisements and they measure the effectiveness of the ads. Ad platforms (usually) spend a lot of money to ensure that impressions aren’t wasted on bot traffic.

If you shed your user base while amplifying bot accounts, there’s no reason for companies to bring their ad spend to you.

Once again MBA greed and short term thinking wrecks something that had value.

Haven't checked myself but a while back someone told me you can still find the posts and comments if you search for the user. So that basically just adds an extra step

are you still republican?

It's ok, I've been perma-banned for stating the simple fact that Andrew Tate deserves to be beaten to death in a dark and hopeless Brazilian prison. So they've come full circle.

In the search bar type

Author:(username)

Shows you every post and comment they've made, including "hidden" ones, with more sort options than their actual profile.

That sucks man. I got banned for "anti-Zionism". Reddit really has become a meaningless wasteland for anyone with political opinions.

Yeah but their terminal failure mode is making the case for Lemmy far more impactfully than its own creators ever can, so there's that

I'm pretty sure this doesn't work if a user has hidden their posts

It 100% does. Did it earlier today.

Also, if they do not reign in the bots, their data becomes useless for AI companies, so these deals will stop to pay too.

Not wrecked. Cashed out. It's intentional, and they're just making as much as they can get away with, before the well dries out.

It's wrecked for the users, sure, but this is what capitalism is. Stealing and selling what others created, for profit, fucking them over.

Pretty simple solution.

Stop using reddit.

This worked for me for a little while, but then some update must have patched it up.

Not long after, a redditor dropped the following link:

https://rosint.dev/

Any post or message containing this link is auto-banned immediately on reddit. Even though bot infestation has been a problem for a bit, I think a lot of actual redditors set their profiles to prevent A.I. scraping

Literally used it today with no problems 🤷‍♂️

to be fair, you should be banned from everywhere, where people have civil discussions. Once for promoting murder, obviously, and then again for not knowing the difference between opinion and fact.

Gotta love clientside permissions implementations

Competent devs solved that like in 2007...

FUCK ALL ZIOS, UNLOVINGLY

Well it hides it from your profile, but it's still publicly posted on Reddit. It's just searching the entire site. Bit silly that it doesn't filter your username from the search function when turned on though.

A lot of people don't realise you can still see all their posts. I mainly use Reddit for porn these days and a lot of times people will post nudes with their face censored, hide their posts, then show their face in regular subreddits not realising it's all still searchable.

> be me bored 4Channer
> click on obvious bot account using ChatGPT
> want to check post history for confirmation
> realize this is fucking 4Chan... there's no such thing as history
> wtf.jpg

Bingo, they know what theyre doing, theyre enshittifying.

Gotta squeeze all the blood out of the stone.

They know theyre going down, theyre deciding to make as much money as possible while doing so.

Who cares if that causes mass spread of mis and disinformation? That ain't illegal, and it is profitable.

happy little accidents

Being on Reddit is like being on Facebook. We have been warned.

It's not murder if you're killing a pest

Real and heterosexual.

It’s not murder if you’re killing a pest

that's literally nazi rhetoric.

like, hitler literally used that exact argument.

Easy to say and want, but harder to do. There's so much more activity especially for niche subjects it's hard to quit. As soon as Lemmy gets all that, I'll finally be able to leave.

Didn’t they just lose those deals and drop in value a month or two ago?

It's worse because the mods can be trolls.

No, this argument was used against a group of people not a specific and prolific single human trafficker and rapist.

forums aren't meant to have hidden profiles

any other places with pseudo tech support or tech hardware reviews?

By the time that happens Lemmy will be as dog shit as Reddit. We need niche spaces that are less centralized and I don’t mean that in a sense that federated fixes.

Thank you sir. Here is the post that got me permabanned:
(thread: How do you think the Trump Presidency will end? r/AskReddit)

[In response to another user's comment, BTW]

At this point you should be openly antagonistic to any reddit mod who calls you out for threatening violence against these douchebag Nazis.

You are protecting and enabling the villains when you ban us for saying these things BTW. Keep that in mind before you hit the "Ban User Button" on this comment. (Also this was not a direct threat to anyone, merely commentary, so you can REALLY stuff it.)

I'm not attempting to brigade or anything, and yeah, this technically from Reddit, but it's a deleted post, (I deleted it) so kinda doesn't exist there anymore. This is more...a "sample for consideration."

They treat anybody with an account that's less than 30 days old as if they're animals to be abused for sport. Someone should file a class action lawsuit over Shadow banning. You could post 50 messages before you start to even realize that nobody is seeing them.

No, I was never a republican I'm just not a "blue no matter who" type of person

I think the difference is that reddit pretends to have a system for floating high quality posts to the top, whereas 4chan openly brands itself as an ocean of piss

One of the comic mods openly admitted to pinning inflammatory comments just to get push back so they could ban users that didn't agree with their inflammatory comments. The described it as "very common practice".

So yeah. Trolls. It was among the reason I chose to ditch the hell site.

They're also the type to claim it's literally impossible to be sexist towards men, racist towards white people, etc. Literally impossible to be sexist on the basis of sex, love it.

That stopped working ages ago.

Whoa whoa whoa, it’s not just piss. There’s loads of shit too, floating in the sea of piss.

There are still humans on Reddit?

There's definitely better places for relationship advice

We can replace reddit with while(true) do print("Break up with them") end

How many fucking times do I have to say it works and I've used it recently before one of you idiots telling me it doesn't actually checked.

Here's some proof with the first random hidden profile I found:

Big red flag.

"accidentally"...

People thinking that bots are real people increases engagement numbers.