• NoodlePoint@lemmy.world
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    11 days ago

    That’s what pandering to the bigger techbros spez gets.

    Being there stopped being fun ever since the shits started running a massive profile-and-purge program powered by fucking AI, as even casually mentioning violence against right-wingers or POTUS and his merry chucklefucks gets your account flagged for banning. That’s why there’s now a chilling effect.

    https://finance.yahoo.com/news/reddit-stock-soars-as-company-posts-fastest-quarterly-revenue-growth-in-3-years-205631477.html

    Yeah, and it aged hard like milk.

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      All my accounts were banned except one, because I used a different email address for that one. Their “AI” isn’t as advanced as they want you to think. They literally just track you by email and IP.

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        israeli propaganda, as long as your pro-israeli or anti-russian you are free. last i recieved a 7day ban for critcizing benajamin as the instigator of the war.

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          I got my reddit ban for replying to someone in world news. Their comment was saying spain should declare war on israel. I forget why, this before the flotilla though.

          I got banned for saying that was unlikely as israel is a nuclear power.

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      you dont even have to mention anything you can just get banned for creating a new account, or firing up an years old account, since they will consider those as bots. it happens randomly though. so much so, the shadowban sub had so many of these bans because they got banned for little reason.(besides the one that have multiple accounts get shadowbanned).

      they started limiting the amount of time the shadowban questions stay open to silence any discussion of it.

  • Ironfist79@lemmy.world
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    Reddit is a parasite that produces nothing of value. The users are the ones keeping the site alive.

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      I said that folks would blame the Kirk shooting on trans people. What do you know, I was banned and it actually fucking happened.

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        Because whether you like it or not, social media is the easy-track to connect with people of all varying degrees and connect through common interests and even ideals. It’s a lot easier than in the 2000s and 1990s when all you’ve had was an e-mail and probably chat room hopping. You just had to know someone else’s e-mail like you would have to know someone’s number to call them, that’s how it worked.

        With social media, you can just breeze through friend lists and comb over searches to find friends and everything far easier. It’s easier to connect with people that way than ever before. And losing out on that, can sting.

        I sometimes wished it wasn’t that way, but the people have largely decided we needed something more than just writing e-mails to eachother.

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        probably some have ties to smaller communities of specific category(not news or politics), like your into tech, or cars, or CARD GAMES, or console games. or specific discussions. i had identification of “things/plants” that i now cant access. or discussion of a condition(not to find a diagnosis, but your experiences)

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        Thanks haha, I was never really rah rah into reddit itself but it had a lot of cool niche subs for hobbies and such and that’s where I spent most of my time not even in the default or political subs.

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          i got nuked right after some dummy account asked if i want to add a new mod on my sub. a couple of days later - voila - i’m actually a malicious bot boo this bot motherfucker. that was suspicious and for what - i’m literally dropping read/watch later shit

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      Same. My comment was “fuck trump and Obama” arguing about using drones to order civilians abroad. Do you remember what your violent advocation was?

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        Mine was telling someone it was unlikely that spain would declare war on israel, it being a nuclear nation…

        Banned for ‘glorifying violence.’

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        no OP.

        I got the F out and deleted my old posts every time they restored them until they stayed gone.

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          Deleting your posts was a waste of time. Chances are likely that it is archived on their end.

          Reddit has been paying close attention to behavior patterns of banned users and users they wouldn’t want on their platform. It’s likely they’ve gotten your posting imprint and just give you the comfort of thinking you’ve deleted your posts.

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            You can download everything posted on Reddit prior to the great api ban in a torrent. So yeah it’s still out there.

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            deleting your account also wont stop them from finding your new accounts, they mostly archived that as well. they look at browser fingerprinting, device, device components, time zone discrepancy, browser size and VERSION, resolution,etc. if you use any paid service/trial service that can spoof any of these above and they arnt the correct versions, they can detect that.

            and then theres the warming up period with new accounts(like not posting, reporting, or upvoting too fast after account creation)

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              As far as I know, they use things called Evercookies and it’s been a thing now too. If you have an Evercookie, then it won’t really matter what browser you use or even if you clean the cache and history. You have to deep scrub your system and practically all traces of your browser to even get rid of those.

              And even so, basic networking is a no brainer when they can just flag your IP and it won’t even matter how many times you’ve done that process.

              VPN and Incognito browsing is the way.

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                That there are so many ways to store data on a browser (including exploits) and that they expose so much information about your physical device is a big part of the problem. Even barring that, there are additional ways they can fingerprint a user. While any one thing might not be telling, when you take all of them in combination, it gets frighteningly accurate how easy it is for them to know exactly who you are.

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                I discovered the other night that I couldn’t even browse Reddit anonymously with my VPN active.

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                  I don’t know then. I can browse Reddit just fine and I’m not using a VPN. It is interacting with the content and commenting I can’t do because auto-shadowban.

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                  They’ve been blocking Vons for years.

                  The absolute degradation of the site is appalling. And most of the comments read like they’re written by children, because I’m assuming most of them are.

                  The absolute stupidity of everything on the site is flabberghasting.

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            They were archived as they restored them several times. But I kept the account and every time they restored them, I used software to go in and wipe them back out. They’re still not visible on the front end to this day. Maybe they’ll do something AI with them, but they don’t show up in Google search anymore.

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        Mine was “the german train system organisation should be burned down and redone anew” and “sprich deutsch du hurensohn”

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            No it was under a postof news that the CEO again got raised while the trains were delaid heavier than ever and that a lot of bureaucracy holds it back. Its not politics. Litterly just we need to redo how to organise our trains!

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              Well, everything is politics. But I was more wondering about the “sprich deutsch” Part - that’s usually more of a racist thing, and therefore right wing politics. But if you don’t see public transport as political you might be right-wing overall?

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                …are we now just connecting things to put everyone in right corner? God i hate online people…

                Guess being against corperates, for self reliance, public owner ship, pro a european state and untouchable democracy, and so on, is now “right wing”.

                “Sprich deutsch” in litterly ich_iel is litterly the norm! Thats the joke! Everything is worded german. Guess such is now “right wing”.

                “Everything is politics” omfg. Yeah nah. Thats enought Internet for this month, and it only started. Crazy!

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                  bro just skipped the “usually” part and made a rant against things being judged politically.

                  I think the “everything has to be written in German” part of ich_iel is also establishing a rather nationalist online culture through linguistic homogeny and illegibility to outsiders. So, yeah, you may not want to recognize the impact your words may have, but it’s clear to many others.

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                  Yeah, I got that context now, which I also accounted for with the “usually” qualifier. I still think it builds an attitude that is toxic to outsiders and can potentially push someone into a right-wing position. I have witnessed first hand how someone fell down a fascist rabbit hole via online places touting language superiority.

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        I suggested drawing in chalk on the street outside of the governor’s mansion, to protest the GIANT chalk Christ she had commissioned across the driveway to celebrate Easter one year.

        It wasn’t even a serious call to action.

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      i think people were shocked that all thier accounts were banned simulataneously, despite some of them not participating in the same subs, around the same time. they just went after every account in your ip address,device or browser. even if time has passed that a subreddit ban has been lifted in your old accounts. the site filters/AI doesnt take that into account, and i suspect its intentional.

      i noticed reddit is very wary of browser forks now too(google, firefox forks), theres a reason they dont like brave(because it hides your fingerprints by default)

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    Downvoted because this isn’t news. It’s clickbaity nonsense which has no bearing on anything real.

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    I remember thinking back in 2021 or 2022 when it was announced they were going public that yep, this site is gonna be gone soon.

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      also matter the fact they purge IRL users that gave the site real content, which is probably lopsided to AI bot(comments and responses)

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    I don’t care about their stock value but the situation fells so weird. So chatgpt refers to reddit less, and that makes reddit stock value fall. This really shows how much of the share value is pure hype and how much of “the economy” is pure manupulation of numbers instead of actual value.

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      You just described most tech stocks.

      As Cory Doctrow explains:

      the fundamental duty of every CEO of every high-growth tech company: explaining how his company will continue to grow. These growth stories are key, because growth stocks trade at a huge premium relative to the stocks of “mature” companies.

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        Tesla is “larger” than all other car companies combined when they’re virtually always “delayed” on actually shipping product. We live in bizarro world. Your livelihood is a single cell in a giant spreadsheet full of completely made-up numbers.

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            The thing that baffles me on that one is that it doesn’t stand up on its own terms. None of Tesla’s tech in 2025 is ahead of its competitors, and they’ve become so toxic as a brand that most top tier engineers don’t even want to work there.

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        The bubble bursts when one of them can’t make their monthly payment.

        It’s the dot com bubble all over again

        Makes me think I should sell all my retirement stocks and stick it in bonds until the bottom falls out from under Nvidia

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      That’s actually quite easy to explain. Reddits entire monetary value (or at least a very large portion) depends on how relevant it is as platform to mine user interactions - to use as training material for AI.

      Reddit getting references less is a sign that the models, or the owning companies, value reddit data less compared to before.