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.
I gave up on reddit the day the mod teams of were allowed to ban you from their community not because you did anything wrong, but because you were a member in another sub that they didn’t like.
That happens here constantly
I’ve only ever seen this from the kids over at .ml.
You gave up on Reddit because mods can ban you for random reasons unrelated to your behavior? That’s one of a small set of problems that’s literally much worse and more prevalent on Lemmy.
I haven’t noticed. Maybe because they don’t announce it here? Still a pretty shity thing to do. It’s hilarious that a platform that is supposed to be about getting around censorship is so crazy about it. Federated stuff in general. You market it as this web of free ideas but really it’s everyone on their own island and if they don’t like you then they put up walls to keep you out. Maybe it’s from being raised in 00s internet where you were shit on for saying anything but that’s dumb. Early internet you had a voice and if you said dumb things you got ignored individually or down voted by the community at large.
This tribal bullshit is what keeps us divided. You shouldn’t be able to rob someone of their voice when they use it in a way you don’t like.
That’s how the right keeps winning people over.
That was so long ago, it’s just how people in contentious communities dealt with people to save work on mods.
I know because I was involved in those apps and moderating large subs that absolute shitmouthed turds loved to ransack with brigading.
You have no idea how bad brigading was, particularly by the foul, juvenile 4chan-type crowds who would arbitrarily decide something was “pro feminist” and then flood the sub with hate posts until the mods gave up and then they would slip in their own mods and rebrand the whole community.
I genuinely did not care and still do not care if it offended some people that they were pre-banned because they liked to participate in hate communities, for whatever reason. Back then you could make alts and nobody cared so what does it matter.
This is what really shocked me about reddit, was how it’s this really huge entity whose owners just somehow didn’t notice that the front page being shown to everyone by default contained stuff from subs that were really very blatantly and obviously manipulated by mods not being on the level. I realize you can’t police every one of the thousands of active subs on there, but what gets to go to the front page shouldn’t need much curation.
Yeah. The mod infiltration by bad actors really sucked. What was it like 50 people that were basically modding entire site? Then you have unmodded communities that get banned and you can’t create a new one because the other one was banned. It’s like the catch-22 they use to keep communities in check.
It absolutely was and is like that.
The thing is, when those horrible posts got boosted to the front, it just made for more drama, more “engagement” and more links being shared across other social media sites.
Reddit ignoring their responsibility to administrate wasn’t a bug, it was a feature.
It’s the same as what Jubilee is doing now, boosting the worst voices on both sides, making people hate each other more and giving people a distorted view of demographics in our country. It’s line going up at the expense of everything we’ve worked the last several thousand years to build. I’m happy I was banned and will never return, I just wish more people would realize what these places are doing to us all.
They sure love to admin now. The silence of Reddit admin drove me crazy. Especially when I tried to run my own subs.
Read ‘liked to participate’ as mostly lurked in their spaces. I shouldn’t have to change accounts to look over the fence. Especially if it’s because you’re being a lazy mod. I know my comment history. I said something like “I’m so sorry” once and that got be banned.
I shouldn’t have to justify myself when I didn’t break a communities rules and a community shouldn’t have the right to police my content consumption when it doesn’t impact that community.
There are a lot bigger things that we had to deal with daily, and there are lot bigger problems with the platforms, communities, and broader social impacts that remained on my mind than the small percentage of people inconvenienced by the decisions some people made to keep their mod teams from being overworked. You’re not the only one butthurt by the bot, but the alternative was worse so I still don’t really care.
So you gave up on it like a decade ago?
Pretty much. Damn…2015