They’re using bots to try to flag bots, and the whole shell game is going to devolve into false positives driving away the humans while bots play the sideboard games to look human.
Reddit has been a dumpster fire of heavy-handed bans, and refusal of mod transparency or appeal, for a while now. It started when they closed off the API against third-party mod tools. It won’t get better anytime soon. Glad you’re here in the Lemmyverse instead.
Help me understand: was this a subreddit you participated in for months or longer, before encountering a wave of objectifying comments? Or is it more like, you were a newb to the sub when you started pestering mods about a tone that was already established as normalized there?
It has everything to do with identifying and profiling visitors, but I believe ad revenue is just the cover justification. Social media user profiling has crossed the technological threshold into being of interest to authoritarian states, who are very keen to know who the likely troublemakers are and to neuter social networks as potential channels for resistance organization.
I had to use Reddit a few days back because apparently that’s the only place DuckDuckGo looks for search page bug reports
It felt bad
I used to spend a lot of time there but yeah fuck spez and the oligarchy dicksuckery he’s blatantly committed to
Welcome to Lemmy! Reddit won’t get better, so now’s a great time to emotionally divest from it.
The hypothesis stipulates “Apart from the top management, no employee is aware of project Cobra”. So the hypothetical interns are handled by a consulting third party, not Reddit itself.
They’d have to pay out the $1M to consultants to forward for any actually-effective hands-on gruntwork of trying to influence the social media user market, or technical attacks on the code infrastructure or federated service provider resources. It would show somewhere in their financials.
If your coding bootcmp (or any other endeavor) is dependent on the goodwill of Reddit mods in this age of dumpsterfire Reddit … Then maybe you need to rethink your marketing/ PR strategy
Never heard of him and Reddit is a dumpster fire so whatev lol
A lot of the strength of Reddit was that it was indexed by the big search engines. Take that away and it stops being a destination for searches for useful information. Everything Reddit has done in the past few years to paywall the API and reduce transparency, is just ensuring it becomes another irrelevant echo chamber of “alternative facts”.
Reddit has been actively alienating users who despise fascism, so these pro-fash topical whinges are only going to grow more echo-chambery
I feel like it shouldn’t be very difficult to get along on Lemmy - assuming you’re not simping for fascism, for example.
Some very active niche communities never really took off on Reddit though. For example, the DECA game “Realm of the Mad God” - the subreddit didn’t particularly add to the community, you’d find more engagement on the game’s Discord. So maybe there’s a different platform more tuned to your niche interest.
What happens to everyone who’s been silenced on that platform is hopefully they contribute to other social media that aren’t blatantly pro-fash
Sorry this happened to you. The Reddit we loved is evidently being intentionally reduced to yet another reactionary / fascist echo chamber, like Xitter.
I don’t know if Reddit’s board are just enthusiastic regime toadies, or if the regime has leverage over CEO u/spez Huffman in connection with his tenure as r/Jailbait mod. Either way, it’s not going back, so fediverse is the way forward.
Sorry this happened to you. The Reddit we loved is evidently being intentionally reduced to yet another reactionary / fascist echo chamber, like Xitter.
I don’t know if Reddit’s board are just enthusiastic regime toadies, or if the regime has leverage over CEO u/spez Huffman in connection with his tenure as r/Jailbait mod. Either way, it’s not going back, so fediverse is the way forward.
Why do you even want to? Reddit is going the way of Yahoo Answers.
Maybe one or more of the things you mentioned contributed to your account getting banned. Or maybe the AI-backed moderation systems hallucinated. Seems Reddit is accepting heavy-handed bans based on false-positives from their AI, as an acceptable trade-off to limit payroll. That will look great to their investors until the tipping point where ad space on Reddit is worthless because it’s all bots generating and consuming each others’ fake content.
It’s better here, at least for now. Welcome.