Reddit is just porn.

Cool, just an FYI when I got perma banned from Reddit a few years ago I was able to go back into my past posts and change them.

I generated some AI gibberish slop and posted it in all of my past posts just so they couldn’t benefit from my past participation.

If your still able to do so I highly recommend poisoning your content.

Left reddit after the API fiasco. You will be fine, anyway reddit is in a very rapid decline.

Seriously. At least back then their Android app was basically unusable. I haven't tried it since, but suspect that because ads I'd probably hate it anyways. It was an unhealthy addiction.

The next step is to block that shithole entirely from your feed. I use UBlacklist. It’s pretty easy to set up.

It’s all mostly bots and repost slop. At least it was when I left. I can’t see it being different now.

Once you realize that it’s all written by AI for the purpose of engagement, its easer to walk away from it.

None of that shit is real.

You cannot do that anymore. They own everything you provided to them.

Same bruh. Reddit’s decline is real. In Indian feeds, I only see people posting reels from Insta, thirst trap LLM slop in fashion subReddits or sexually deprived men fantasising about content creators and bollywood actresses in celeb subReddits.

Oh yeah they make a lot of money from sponsored posts, can’t let people mention products and services without paying

Did you say something mean about fElon?

You forget step 0.5, spamming gifs of Luigi twerkin

That's why I deleted my posts and comments regularly. There are even scripts to do this on mass https://github.com/j0be/PowerDeleteSuite

Ok. Try to not throw a huge wall of text please. I hate reddit too, but this is super boring.

I've been getting this for a few weeks now, no way I'm making another account. Obviously loading the home page like 3 times per day is bot behaviour!

Side note - If you save a multi reddit, it skips verification and autoloads old reddit. However if you try to load any comments it will block you.

I kind of wanted to leave mine up for posterity though. For the real people that may come across the stuff. But perhaps that was a mistake I've been turning that over, wondering if I should've just deleted it all.

RedReader stopped working this summer.
It's amazing that it kept going even after the API restrictions, I think it's because Redlib uses reverse engineered API calls from the official app

I get where you're coming from. It feels wrong to let years of writing just vanish when it might still help someone. But leaving it up keeps concentrating all that value inside a company that only ever wanted it to sell ads and train models with it. It's already bad enough that a normal search often means appending "reddit" to the query. They gain so much power from that dynamic that I'd rather burn my old writing with me than keep feeding it. And honestly, since they can wipe an account overnight without a word, "posterity" there is rented at best. I'd rather start over and help build the information here, in the fediverse, where it can't be taken away by anyone person or organization.

You sold me. Unfortunately I don't know if I can even remember all my handles, but I should try. Although the data scrapers have it all already by now, at least reddit and new crawlers won't.

I wonder if there is a program to download all of your conversation trees first for yourself, then delete? I should look around for that first.

The power delete suite can do this as well. https://github.com/j0be/PowerDeleteSuite#%3A%7E%3Atext=You+can+do+an+export+of+all+the+content+you+filter%2C+whether+or+not+you%27re+deleting+or+editing!

This place is so much worse. The mods are unchecked and twice as power hungry. The users are way more out of touch.

This place took every single corporate control measure that reddit implemented and built lemmy out of it. No lessons were learned.

This place is a snuff box for leftist.

Good for you I guess? I actually went back to using reddit a few months ago. Lemmy just isn't big enough for the communities I want to engage with. I have tried to create spaces here, and nobody interacts with them.

As much as reddit sucks, that's still where a lot of people are. The other issue with lemmy is that it's a bunch of leftists all fighting and arguing with eachother about who is the most pure leftist. It's annoying. But, you'll see that all in due time. Best of luck to you with this place. I guess.

It's a small space and you'll see the same people a lot, so be prepared for that.

On average it takes seven tries to leave an abusive relationship.

Oh, but Reddit is a leftist utopia!?

Comparing this to an abusive relationship is a really stupid comparison.

Lemmy does not have a very active Boardgames community or a Blood on the Clocktower community. Just doesn't have the numbers for it.

You can make a new account though, even with the same email address (or at least that used to be possible).

I used that to delete all my posts, and then a month later had a notification for a reply on a post that from my profile page I couldn't see (as they were all deleted) but on the thread was still visible.

Don't delete, edit your posts to fill them with nonsense.

Every time someone uses the acronym KYC I can't help but think it stands for 'Kill your Children'.

Saying this unironically while using a Lemmy.world account. Try some other instances that don't ban/defederate from absolutely everything that doesn't fit their tiny reddit-shaped minds before actually complaining.

https://www.thehotline.org/

oh thank god.

Gee thanks, this has been very productive for both of us! Speaking as someone who lived in a household with domestic abuse, I really appreciate my situation growing up being compared a fascist takeover of our government.

I have always wondered if some griefer could find an exploit that leveraged the ban hammer… and used a script that just banned everyone.

Like, literally everyone. All at once. Bots. Humans. Mods. Admins. No distinction. If you log in using the front door, the account is banned.

I’m not much for chaos, but abrupt chaos at a deserving target would be enjoyable to rubberneck at.

Resorting to hyperbole weakens your argument not mine.

I have not said it was a leftist utopia. When reddit started it was community based. We built these spaces ourselves and they reflected our ideals, and that's what made them good and what drew people in. It's the same thing a lot of leftists say they want, not just online but in government, in business, everywhere. Cooperatives. Voting systems where our votes actually matter, instead of smoke and mirrors covering for a small group of elites.

Then as these sites got bigger, corporate interests started rolling out features that slowly took those structures apart, and we didn't even notice. Every change favored the company. The community lost control over its own content and its own spaces, and in its place we got an overseer, a mod in charge.
And a lot of these mods act like abusive police with their authority. Unchecked power, no accountability, punishing people however they want. That's everything leftists say they're against.

Think how insane it is that people here push for democracy everywhere else, but when it comes to our own digital spaces they just accept it, and do not even catch that contradiction.

Besides the companies that abuse us, the government abuses us as well. In a lot of ways the current administration mirrors what an abusive relationship is like. One that we as citizens are compelled to endure. But unlike a personal abusive relationship, there is no escape.

If you cannot use the information then please pass it along to someone who can.

We've aaaaaall been there buddy.

Have you tried recently? Because the paradigm of having many reddit throwaways is a thing of the past. These days you can still register as many account as you want but the instant shadowban comes the moment you try to post something.

Emphasis on the shadowban, which is the default behavior. You can still submit posts and comments from as many accounts as you want but nobody else is going to see it.

I was there from the start on Reddit. I saw how my left leaning views were accepted, then eventually rejected, and finally demonized. I remember peacefully talking about Linux for years then getting constantly brigaded by Winbros. Don't think I wasn't there. I left, I was not banned. It was definitely heading that way though.

Before Reddit it was forums, Usenet, IRC, BBS, etc. We definitely need to return to simpler times where everyone isn't corralled into the same place to be propagandised to. I stopped Meta during the pandemic when I saw them spread misinformation on purpose to divide people. It is clear major platforms are a cancer on our society.

Democracy is a window dressing for control by the wealthy at this point. We definitely need to fix things, but we need to take a long hard look at what we have and why we have it first.

You are correct, we should take back our digital space. That is why I am here. That is why I am trying to replace corporate services with a homelab.

My alts got popped pretty quickly for ban evasion when my main account got banned. I didn't even have email addresses associated with them.

I try to keep mostly to lemmy, but the American football scene and the OSRS scene are nearly non-existent here. OSRS being the worst of the two, there's almost never any updates or posts even. Yeah yeah, be the change I wanna see, but I don't wanna talk to myself, that's how dead it is lol

I’m in for making DIY Luigi prayer Candles and posting the instructions on witches vs patriarchy. Instant shadow ban years old account high karma no further correspondence from Reddit

I'm in for saying riot police should quit their jobs in shame following the Roe v Wade ruling. Nowadays I'm blocked from even accessing reddit.com for some fucking reason, even without a VPN

I didn't get banned I just quit. It was clear that it was going start rotting and it has.

It's really bad these days. A lot of the smaller subs are riddled with blatant AI slop posts and comments. What's even the point of being on the site when you're talking with bots?

I left once they started blocking VPN access, and u didn't want to play cat and mouse changing VPN locations.

I don't need the information, and neither does anybody else. If you want to be helpful, give people resources to contact their elected representatives, and/or start volunteering with your local community, and make a plan to get out if things come to that. Everything else including this, is just noise.

No, you're just not very smart and don't understand metaphors.

Ahhh, thanks for clarifying. I wasn't getting it bcz of how dumb I am.

Responses like this are such low effort. What is wrong with you. Who gives a shit what instance it is. It's all the same.