Mike Hardaker, who has maintained a Reddit account for 20 years, has been shadow-banned on Reddit. He has posted an update on X, stating that Reddit requires an ad spend to restore organic posting. This demand was given to him in writing.
Mike Hardaker, who has maintained a Reddit account for 20 years, has been shadow-banned on Reddit. He has posted an update on X, stating that Reddit requires an ad spend to restore organic posting. This demand was given to him in writing.
My ~19 year old account was permabanned after three strikes that involved two upvotes of Luigi pictures and then— after seeing a vid of Trump falling asleep— saying he shouldn’t wake up.
Then my alt got a warning for “disparaging communities” after I said one of the two PDX subreddits started so they could talk shit about houseless people, which is a fact.
Three of those were flagged by AI, the last one— the warning— was a person flagging it and couldn’t be contested.
It’s gone to the dogs.
You got violated for upvoting luigi? I said all sorts of shit with no action on that, although I did get a 2nd violation and abandoned that account and when I came back with a new account all luigi content was gone except for pics which my posts don’t seem to go through on somehow.
I got one for saying musk should be riding in his own spaceshit, for advocating violence, apparently it’s just presumed it will blow up. What else, for accurately stating a cultural difference with another country that lacks sewage and running water for half the population and has a problem with feces polluting the ground and water, India.
We can’t even talk about cultural differences, and problems in society, without getting violated for disparaging others apparently. God forbid we accurately recount a historical situation where some nationalist is embarrassed for the outcome.
I pulled a 3-day ban for calling ICE racists. Must have really triggered one of the racist mods.
I am on a 7 day ban for the same sort of thing, pointing out how ICE targets brown people. “Inciting hate”, how is pointing out hate crimes the same as inciting hate? Fight the power.
Why go back?
It’s strong “people who point out racism are the real racists” energy
I’m jealous of all y’all who know why you got bans.
I’ve gotten warning and temp bans, but they never specify why. They never include the content. Just saying promoting this or that is very unclear, like how, when, where? Did I actually?
I always just ignore them and carry on on alts for a while.
Their shit is so stupid. But there’s a lot of useful content on Reddit. I still hit up old house and DIY type groups, cause I own an old house, and specific tech groups because of the tech I use, but I don’t miss the rest.
I left before they could ban me. I’d most certainly be gone by now.
Getting rid of that algorithm was probably the second most positive change I made in my life in the past 5 years.
I need to get back on for help on some stuff. Was just trying to find a plant or drug free to order to take the place of adhd medication that would enrich my life but I am unable to get because puritanical lawmakers have made it near impossible for people without quality insurance to get it. I need help with other work stuff, etc. And there aren’t enough people on here for a lot of it, especially niche subjects. This time I want to just use reddit for that, and keep time wasting on lemmy here, although to waste less time, winter I’ve more time to waste.