That’s why it’s past tense “IPOd” He’s now in the maximizing profits phase. Which is replacing people with bots and bad actors that all guide advertisements.

Reddit banned my indie game studio account because my coworker logged in on the same computer I was using to comment on our latest trailer.

They said I was switching accounts to boost my post. Then banned my company account, and all the accounts for all my employees.

The more you look into Reddits community rules, the more generic they become so they can make up any excuse to ban you.

There’s a currency subreddit that also banned an alt I created years ago for me saying the word “crypto” despite that not at all being listed in their rules. I asked a mod why, and his response was that it was considered “vulgar” language.

So yeah. Reddit will just ban you for any reason, even if you are an active community member or contributer. The site will be unusable in 5 years as the CEO will have IPOd it for max profit and left by then.

Jesus that’s horrifying. And I’m so sorry to hear. Even worse it can mimic others like that. I never thought of how disgusting that could feel.

I’m so sorry you feel regret. You shouldn’t. Capitalism turns everyone into money one way or another. You were there for the community, and to help beginners. I’m sure they all appreciate your efforts. AI can’t change that.

It’s very dead.

But worse -

it’ll be around for a long time as an AI training honey pot.

Most of the front page posts are auto-generated bait by bots to pull in engagement. Same questions asked in the same subs almost every month:

• What’s the game you enjoy the no one else does?
• What’s that movie you loved as kid that no one else watched?
• What was the worst date you’ve ever been on?
• etc

Every couple months - times infinity.

Whatever people answer, the bot gobbles up for AI to study. Rinse and repeat over months, and you get a constant stream of recent information about tastes and preferences.

Albeit, all by mouth breathing bottom barrel new reddit users.

Reddit will always have value as a honeypot for AI models. The ads are just an excuse.

So your cringe is genetic? Explains you.

Do you think your grandma’s collection of porcelain figurines is cringe too?

Sorry you forgot what people being happy looks like.

I mean, fuck Reddit, but I would rather use it a decade ago when people were excited to interact on it rather than now when everything is buried under a layer of corporate bs.

💯 This

Agreed!

Reddit brain drain has been happening for years, and it’s already embarrassing how much the quality of posts has dropped. Now it’s about to get so much worse.