I had never been banned before.

At least they sent you a message instead of just making your account not work.

I got shadowbannned after posting about politics.

I never called for or celebrated violence, didn’t upvote pictures of Luigi (which they have a STRANGE hard-on for) or any of that. I just posted neutrally-worded opinions.

Shadowbanning is an abusive behavior and Reddit has been about that for well over a decade. On Twitter, you do something they don’t like, they just tell you, “you have to delete this tweet and wait 12 hours” or whatever. On Reddit, your account just gets “weird” with strange error messages. You have to go digging for information on the phenomenon because they don’t display a message or send an email about it.

The cute little aliens are there to paper over the fact that Reddit’s leadership has no concept of user advocacy. You’re just rows in a few tables to them. You’re the product that’s being sold, and as far as they’re concerned that gives you the same rights as any other product on a shelf.

They are still sending me emails with cute little aliens in them, even though my account is hosed. This is how disjointed they are.

Someone else wrote that on Reddit, the users and admins hate each other. I think that’s true.

True, they’ve already demonstrated a great capacity to fuck up without AI so this will just be more of the same

Gemini is a bargain basement shit AI

Great, can it make my wife come back too

Neither is right

It’s also for middle class people flying around in single-engine bug smashers

Hey hey

I love feeding my bloated node_modules

I think he’s ready to pull the cord and stop hearing “fuck you spez” 999 times every minute

I saw more and more recent comment authors had the “closed account” icon before they shadowbannned me. A noticeable uptick in the last two weeks. That wasn’t uncommon to see before, on comments that were years old, but I saw it more and more.

I think they’re using AI to get rid of anyone who’s “too much trouble.” I broke no rules as far as I know. Didn’t glorify violence or bother anyone. But I did talk about politics.

A duck?

Given that the Meshtastic team just released a fancy new color UI that they spent about a year on, I’m not sure who this is for, unless someone wants to reskin that UI to work on this monochrome display.

Do you remember that one song from the sound track. Get Off My Elevator. That song kicks ass

The best commercial models did dumb stuff yesterday and I bet they’ll still do dumb stuff tomorrow

Reminds me of that thing Lex Luthor did where he sponged off rounding errors in financial transactions

I’m here because I got shadowbannned for some unspecified reason.

Almost like the sites need the users more than the users need the sites.

Not just restrictive of free speech. Openly abusive to users. Shadowbanning with zero indication of what is going on, or why.