Hey redfugees! I’m a little OOTL… I know reddit has been going downhill for a while, but how has it suddenly nosedived? What triggered it? It’s bewildering, and they’re losing countless users.

  • DioEgizio@lemm.ee
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    4 hours ago

    Elmo got mad at reddit in his tweets for unmoderated “inciting violence” in r/whitepeopletwitter

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    11 hours ago

    They started enforcing a new policy that will warn, or even perma ban you, for simply up voting content they deem as being against their rules. As well as removing anti-1% sentiments like “eat the rich” or even “Luigi;” even in the context of talking about the Nintendo character.

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      9 hours ago

      Luigi stomps on turtles, this promoting cruelty to animals. He also promotes drug use through the consumption of mushrooms with performance enhancing effects.

      The only reason I can think of as to why Mario isn’t also banned is because the rule was made by the older brother.

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    15 hours ago

    In my case, I wanted to get away from US American closed source social media controlled by US companies which ultimately are controlled by Trump and his narrative. Am German. We’re mad as hell.

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      15 hours ago

      Same here. Dutch and don’t want to use any american closed source crap anymore. Dutch people are pretty angry of the US right now.

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          3 hours ago

          Well basically the same things that makes other Europeans mad at the USA. USA has proven to be unreliable in about everything (climate, trade, stability, economics).

          Honestly the only positive is that the EU is finally stepping up and getting rid of our dependance on the US.

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    17 hours ago

    “Eat the rich” is specifically cited as a violent and violence encouraging statement, bannable.

    Upvotes of such statements will also be given bans.

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      6 hours ago

      And like nobody wants to actually eat the rich, they’d probably taste terrible.

      Consider that the rich would do anything rather than become a regular-ass person

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        17 hours ago

        Someone posted their ban feedback around here somewhere, that’s how it read. Maybe we’ll get a link from someone more interested in keeping track of such things than I.

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            9 hours ago

            They have been for like a decade.

            Look at the two shit redesigns the did, the profile-centric accounts, the API blocking, the crypto currency stuff, and the the recent push to monetize reposted content.

            The admins clearly hate that people were still using the site lol

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            16 hours ago

            No, but yes.

            Everything Reddit does these days is for the sake of the shareholders, advertisers, and Spez’s whims. They’re not intentionally trying to destroy Reddit the website as much as they’re trying to turn it into algorithmic social media slop that promotes doomscrolling and advertising revenue over community and genuine human interaction.

            Throw in a sprinkle of Spez aspiring to be Elon Musk’s left shoe, and you have absurd censorship designed to drive away dissenters and users who don’t conform with Reddit’s target audience.

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      18 hours ago

      I don’t understand why they aren’t more afraid of losing all their users… Without any users there’s nothing

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      19 hours ago

      I honestly think that could be the motivation. There’s a risk to THEM, and tbf, they may be motivated by their family as well.

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    20 hours ago

    Well there was the shift a couple years ago with Reddit seeking to dramatically increase ad revenue, so they banned the use of third party clients to force users through their monetization racket.

    Along with that, they clamped down on the API preventing search engines or other applications from indexing data unless they paid reddit for it, ontop of selling user data to AI companies regardless of what the community thinks of that practice. (afaik, there’s no opt-out either)

    And now, they’ve made a pretty big pivot in cracking down on free speach; banning users for so much as liking a comment that contains the word ‘Luigi’ (even if obviously video game related and nothing to do with politics).

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    15 hours ago

    Ingot perma account banned for saying “we have to fight back” meaning… Well, obviously figuratively…