I have been using Reddit for the last couple of years. It feels like it got worse ever since u/spez banned 3rd party clients which requires me to use revanced reddit now. Now the latest saga involves subreddits now banning you for participating in other subreddit they think are bad. This is just pure censorship at this point. And you want to know the best part Reddit has done NOTHING to stop this issue.
which requires me to use revanced reddit now
Actually it doesn’t require you to do shit. You can just not use Reddit.
Ive been on it for over 15 years now and in most ways its gotten worse. For one thing there are FAR more bots that are posting and commenting. Quite a few times Im sure replies have been from bots looking for more “engagement” as thats reddits bread and butter. The ads are getting more prolific, with some “hey what do you guys think about x product” becoming more common. The moderation in some areas has gone a bit bananas. I used Redact to erase my comments in all forums and got permabanned in one for doing so because Redact posts a self link. No warning, just a ban. The only thing thats improved is that a lot of trolling a-holes have also been banned so there are less outright vitriol than there used to be. And some of the worst subs are gone. But its not going in a good direction overall.
i’m surprised I quit reddit cold turkey and never looked back, i was fairly addicted to that place. reddit was getting bad before 2023, when i left, but at that point was getting clear that wasn’t getting any better
Lemmy really helped scratch the Reddit itch. I was lucky enough that my app of choice (boost) was also available for Lemmy, so the transition was pretty seamless (actually, more seamless than it would’ve been sticking with Reddit, since I left over the API shit, which would’ve forced me over to their half-baked app).
The only thing I really miss is the sheer volume of users, especially in more niche communities, but the posts on Lemmy imo tend to be more quality over quantity than Reddit, so that helps.
I totally know what you mean, but it is kinda funny to say you quit cold turkey on a structurally identical platform lol
I only use it for reviews of products or answers to questions about Linux. But the Linux community is getting stronger here on Lemmy
Lots of activity over at programming.dev
It feels like actual people too. Thats nice.
Getting rid of Apollo support was my final straw.
banning you for participating in other subreddit they think are bad.
This happens on Lemmy too. Power Tripping Mods aren’t exclusive to Reddit.
On the other hand, it is impossible to be banned from all of Lemmy. Power tripping admins do not exist here.
Sure, but the community would immediately make a new NintendoHelp community on another instance. We have a low tolerance for that kind of BS.
People made alternative subs on Reddit for that very reason, too. They just were more likely to be buried by the other, bigger subs.
Literally r/BannedFromPyanyang behavior
Fuck Nintendo.
With a rusty trident.
This particular example isn’t specifically a reddit problem; it’s a power tripping moderator problem. A problem that has existed long before Reddit, and will likely always exist on all forms of social media. Even Lemmy. Hell, we have a couple communities specifically to point out instances of admin/mod power tripping.
Now if you have an alt and you accidentally comment there without knowing you got banned on another account, you get instantly permabanned across all accounts, like they know you’re banned so they’ll ban you for upvoting/downvoting content from that sub or posting a comment, yet will still show you that subs content with no warning.
This is just an extension of the political ban waves that became huge in 2020 / 2021.
That’s not a legit reason to ban someone.
I created a new account to post in my regional swinger subreddit and it immediately got deleted by a power hungry mod. He said my post was low effort at the same time as there was a literal dick pic with the text “hit me up” on the subreddit’s front page. I tried to post again with a little more detail but my post never showed up so I messaged the mods directly. They responded a few days later that they had approved my post. Thanks for nothing reddit and reddit mods.
This has been going on for over a decade.
Remember when fat acceptance was the big fad?
Yeah say one word against donuts in any other sub, and all of a sudden you’re banned from 10 others.
