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(Mildly NSFW) Welp, I guess that's it. The single photo that got my ~10-year-old, 60k+ karma Reddit account "permanently suspended." (media.kbin.social)
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[–] speedycat2014@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

They permanently banned my 9yo account with 2 million karma for using the "boxes of Liberty" metaphor in a highly up voted comment about Republicans taking away access to voting. They said it was a threat of violence. 🙄 Meanwhile fascists make literal death threats in conservative subs with no consequences.

The site has systematically been banning high volume contributors who aren't right wing enough for at least the last 3 months. They, like Twitter, are trying to suppress the voices of people who are against fascism. It is deliberate and planned.

[–] ivanafterall@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Not to be conspiratorial, but this is an aspect I've pondered that hasn't gotten much discussion: given spez's fanboy emulation of Musk, we could see Reddit become a lot more right-wing as those voices are the ones allowed to continue, like-minded mods are put in place, etc...which means those folks gain yet another messaging platform. It's not great.

[–] die444die@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

They will. These people are trying to break up our means of communications. That’s why it’s important we get the word out about alternatives.

[–] MiddleWeigh@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The principals of capitalism align with their interests and perhaps their swing that direction could be seem as a defense mechanism against their better nature and any sort of guilt associated with their, what i consider, morally corupt actions.

[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hell, reddit was a friendly host for r/t_d for many years.

[–] tryptaminev@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In their defense at that time subs like FULLCOMMUNISM were also around posting edgy memes where it wasn't always clear, if they jokingly or actually defended Stalins and Maos genocides.

Heck until 2018 or so there were subs about darknet markets where people rated the drugs and services sold there.

[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Somehow in my head I've always put the far left and the far right in the same boat.

[–] CarolinaBlues@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They gave my twelve-year account a three week ban for reporting bots.

“Report abuse” for reporting comment stealing bots, as we were told to do! Insane… unless you want plenty of active bots.

[–] Chetzemoka@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

I got the exact same treatment for "report abuse" for reporting a comment copying bot. Like, ok. If you want Reddit to be nothing but spam bots parroting each other, have at it

[–] AngrilyEatingMuffins@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

The admins have been favoring the fash since forever.

[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

What's more, they'll ban any other account you make, if they can associate it with you (mainly IP but who knows what else).

[–] SustainedChaos@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sports Illustrated swimsuit cover!

[–] ivanafterall@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

That was among the AI prompts used. :)

[–] leftascenter@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago

And such a beautiful way to go too.

[–] 666dollarfootlong@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Thats hilarious, well done!

[–] Wirrvogel@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

This is a work of beauty. True art and the best way to leave Reddit.

[–] Rhabuko@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

They couldn't handle perfection 😤

[–] Faendol@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

It's beautiful

[–] ndsvw@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

I'm not gay, but... Ok, I'm gay now..

[–] Rick@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Is this AI generated? Lmao this is amazing. Also Reddit admins suspended your account for this? That is overstepping A LOT. I think you deserve a Sexy John Oliver reward or something

[–] VanillaGorilla@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago

Went out with a bang. Absolutely worth it. I had to delete my account myself, what a hassle.

[–] Rayspekt@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm OOTL, what's the joke here?

[–] AnonymousLlama@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lots of subreddits are being forced / threatened to open back up so that Spez can fix his IPO valuation and stop these mean mean moderators from hurting his feelings

Some subreddits are opening up and changing their rules so that only specific exact content is being allowed. For example the r/steam subreddit for the steam gaming platform is now discussing literal steam, the idea being that the subreddit is open but it's either a joke or crap content

It's a good enough solution, opening these things in name only and forcefully moderating thing to ensure the conversation and engagement is boring, there's not much else mods can do when admins are being a bunch of dicks.

[–] killick@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ehh, if Reddit is getting traffic from people going to see the trolling, then Reddit is still making money.

[–] jinno@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not if I view them using those third party apps they apparently need to charge an arm and a leg for.

[–] killick@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

OK, true, but that's why they want to charge 3rd party apps.

[–] jinno@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago

And I’m fine with them wanting to do that.

The protest was less about them wanting to charge a price, it’s that in a time frame of 6 months reportedly went from “the API won’t have changes anytime soon” to “we’re going to pivot to a paid API soon” to “we’re charging you advertiser rates per x million API requests, starting in a month, and you cannot supplement with your own ads”.

There was no time for these apps to adjust their pricing models. Most were on yearly subscription models or ad-driven. Having that large a pivot in the rules with no time to adapt the business model is just shitty partnership on Reddit’s part.