Update: Created a new account (there are two subs I still want to follow… obviously any others are a lost cause) and the account is half-broken. It can apparently comment, but the profile and my avatar won’t load.

I’ll leave it for a few days and see if it improves, but I’m not hopeful. I don’t think I’ll bother trying to use Reddit for general purposes unless they get a better CEO. By that time, my guess is that Lemmy and the new Digg will have vacuumed away enough sane users that Reddit will never recover.

In the '80s, Reagan thought that AIDS was killing the right people.

Now it’s the other way around.

I deleted my account, so there’s nothing to test.

I’m assuming this is some shit AI moderation experiment, or some mechanical response to being blocked or reported that lets them off the hook for human review.

They didn’t tell me. They just made it so that leaving a comment doesn’t work anywhere in any subreddit. “Empty response from endpoint.” Website has a different useless error message.

Did they actually tell you you were banned, or did they just give you cryptic error messages and wait for you to figure it out?

Last night, I kept getting “Empty response from endpoint” on and off. This morning, it was all I got, replying to any thread anywhere, including forums I never visit. Tried the website, “Failed to create comment.”

No indication as to why. No message stating I’d been banned or otherwise had my account restricted. No email either. Just cryptic error messages.

I wasn’t going around making trouble, either. Just posting stuff that didn’t break any rules. I’m careful about that.

You do something they don’t like on Twitter, they specifically tell you you’re limited and for how long. I guess Reddit thinks communicating with users about changes to their accounts is totally unimportant?

So I deleted my account and came here.