Reddit is like all news sites these days, you simply can’t even quote the people discussed in the thread and not get banned. Reddit has made a choice to follow the current administrations guidelines on what should be banned. And the millions of users make jokes and stay there. They also think they are making a difference there.

I’ll check it if there is some news I want to know more about, but I’ve pretty much given up Reddit and on all social media. I cary a book with me and just read if I have a few minutes. I may be less connected and informed but I feel happier.

Of course here I am complaining about one place on another.

I quoted “a banned comment” with quotation marks and asked if it was the reason that Redditor was banned.

Next thing I knew, I was banned.

That’s stupid. I am done with Reddit

Yo dawg I heard you like gatekeeping and purity tests, so I got the algorithm here to Pimp Ur App!

Last couple of years? You mean in the last decade.

Subreddits have banned people for activities that users do in other subreddits since long before the API changes. Reddit was bad, long before the API changes. The writing was on the wall when they first changed how votes were displayed, its what started the mass trend up karma farming. There used to be a lot of novelty accounts going around, the small user base kept things grounded and on topic. Then users like gallowboob took over, flooded the site with repost after repost, farming karma, other users began doing the same and now its nothing more than karma hell.

Comment threads are rarely helpful, usually full of trolling, or pun threads, or jokes, or other useless unhelpful crap.

Once a community, any community, becames large enough, the quality of the output drops. If you have 10000 users in a sub/community, and only a couple hundred that actually like the topic, the trolls and the off topic karma whores will take over. Low effort, low skill, low floor, low ceiling. Enshitification isn’t just a word, and it didn’t just happen over night. It’s been happening for a while. The internet will never be as good as it used to be, sure we can do more, watch more, send more, download more, play more, etc. But the smaller close-knit communities that helped cause the internet to thrive in the first place are never coming back.

Enshitification and dead internet theory have made sure of that.

If you want to avoid censorship you picked the wrong lemmy instance to join lol

To be fair, the mass majority of things have gotten worse.

TBF that’s happened here, too. However, it isn’t institutionalized like reddit is doing.

Now the latest saga involves subreddits now banning you for participating in other subreddit they think are bad.

This isn’t new, and a significant reason that I segmented my alts was so that I didn’t comment in “opposing” subs.

They are arbitrarily nuking peops to replace with bots. My wife got banned for laughing at a ratty pic near a whole wheat wrap and saying yum. Reddit said it was inciting violence. 2 days ago there was an actual picture of a rat in a wrap and no one was nuked. I also was nuked a month or so ago.

Welcome

It’s the new 4chan. lmao

It’s been a thing for years, way before api shitshow

[…] please delete all of your participation in the subreddit in question (regardless of if it is positive or negative) […]

So it’s guilt by association.

i have the perfect solution, but it might be a tad extreme: don’t use reddit. BAM. there it is.