This is kind of my feelings at this point. The vast majority of Reddit right now is careening towards Facebook levels of bot activity. Be it repost bots, Russian trolls, what have you…it’s just really hard to pick out what’s a real human at this point. Just so much repetitive shit. I will genuinely miss some of the special interest, more niche communities over there. The equivalents on Lemmy are still kind of ghost towns at the moment. But yeah, at first I was angry that I got permabanned (for telling a MAGA that he wasn’t just licking boots, he was deep throating them). But the more I step back and assess the situation, I’m happy those dumbfucks did the job for me. Fuck Reddit. Which is sad, because it used to be pretty fucking amazing.

For the longest time, people were getting banned for just saying the name “Luigi.” It’s so blatantly obvious who’s pulling the strings at Reddit these days.

Got in an argument on Reddit with some asshole who was celebrating the fact that ICE was spotted in our city hanging out by an elementary school known for having a lot of ESL students. At some point, he remarked about Alex Pretti getting murdered that he “shouldn’t have had a firearm in the presence of law enforcement.” I responded that he wasn’t just licking boots, he was deep throating them. A week later, I received a permanent ban for this. First four years on Reddit, not once did I get banned for anything. After Twitler was elected, I started collecting temp bans like fucking Pokémon. Pretty much all of them for being mean to obvious Russian trolls/bots. That place really does need to be torn down for parts.

I happened to stumble upon that original post where the guy was announcing his supposed “girlfriend” was missing. Seemed like bullshit from the very start. The fact he had to lock comments because way too many commenters were asking questions says a lot. Just the weirdest shit.