1 percent of active mods will be affected, Reddit says.
  • pleaseletmein@lemmy.zipEnglish
    62·
    2 天前

    I got my 15 year old account permanently banned for filing one report against a user who was stalking my profile to call me slurs. (This was “abusing the report button”, apparently.) Everyone in my household got their accounts banned alongside mine. It’s very strange how the site is being run now.

    • DarkFuture@lemmy.worldEnglish
      331·
      2 天前

      Yeah. When my 12 year old account got banned I stopped caring about that site and started creating new accounts every week and just posting whatever the hell I wanted without feeling like I needed to censor myself anymore. So their ban happy culture tends to have the opposite effect of what they want.

      There’s a browser script out there that auto-adds all your subs back from your old account, so it really wasn’t even inconvenient for me other than the 2 minutes it takes to create a throwaway email account and create a new throwaway Reddit account.

      And yeah, their methods for preventing you from coming back end up preventing others using the same computer or in the same household from coming back, so they just lose users. Their methods aren’t very sophisticated though, so it’s pretty easy to avoid them.

      Shit site.

      • TangledHyphae@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        2 天前

        The problem with that is that it’s so locked down now you need an account of X age with Y karma, so the majority of the site isn’t something you can participate in. And I get it, lots of spam accounts and whatnot, but still shitty that they’re a hair trigger away from destroying years worth of built up karma over nothing.

      • NotKyloRen@lemmy.zipEnglish
        14·
        2 天前

        In a fucked up way, yes. As in I think it’s intentional/logical on their part. The culture of reddit has been changing for a while. I think they would want the “old heads” to leave, but also leave behind their posts/comments for others (and Reddit) to benefit off of.

        That’s why people use those web apps that overwrite their comments with garbage. But I always think about how Reddit controls the servers, data, and backups.

          • 7toed@midwest.socialEnglish
            3·
            2 天前

            Eh it doesnt really matter, I’m sure they kept running archives even before selling off to altman, and invariably impacts more actual people trying to maybe find that one useful comment to fix something.

            • bountygiver [any]@lemmy.mlEnglish
              10·
              2 天前

              that’s the point, when people got a dead end when looking for answers on reddit for the nth time, they will stop clicking those results

              • 7toed@midwest.socialEnglish
                2·
                2 天前

                Also though running an ad blocker makes them have to serve the web request and not get ad revenue 🤷‍♂️

    • BanMe@lemmy.worldEnglish
      151·
      2 天前

      Yeah my 10+ yr account was like #340 in comment karma or some shit, I was clearly a contributor, but they banned me for nothing. Wish I would have sold it now.

        • dil@piefed.zipEnglish
          1·
          23 小时前

          couple forums and older ones have decent value, you can even sell suble ad like posts, didn’t see that til after my permaban, people will pay you money to post on your account with karma/age about their stuff lol, makes me really dislike that system more, like most new ppl cant even get help because they can’t comment/post in most subs.

      • LoafedBurrito@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        4·
        2 天前

        How much karma was that? I lost 3 accounts and one had over 100k comment karma, so they lost another good user here as well.

        I loved to post solutions to problems that never got solved on several subreddits, oh well.

        • Scrollone@feddit.itEnglish
          2·
          2 天前

          Yeah, I’m also interested. Why not? Better to sell it now that has value than just getting banned.

    • OctopusNemeses@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      2 天前

      Reddit has a whole metagame on trolling users in these ways. I don’t think corporate cares at all. If anything spez probably welomes it.

  • sqgl@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    13·
    2 天前

    average of over 60,000 daily active moderators” that month, which, at the time, would mean that 0.1 percent of all mods equals 600 people.

    No, it equals 60 people.

  • deczzz@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    262·
    2 天前

    'member when redditors would ALL leave because of the API restrictions? This will have no real effect whatsoever. I’m glad that most redditors didn’t move to lemmy.

  • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.caEnglish
    62·
    2 天前

    I got a lifetime ban after 12 years on Reddit. I still have no clue why, and I really, really don’t care.

    • Pieplup@lemmy.mlEnglish
      14·
      2 天前

      I got perma banned a few years ago for saying pipzilla will stomp on ableists. cause apparently saying OCs of fictional characters will stomp on is a serious threat of violence Reddit moderation is so ass it’s comical people don’t believe me sometimes hwen itell them this is why i got banned but it is. v Pipzilla

    • nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      141·
      2 天前

      I live in a small country that sysadmins don’t care about. if I make an account on reddit, it will be banned the first time I say “hello” in the comments. there is no way for me to use Reddit. the appeal system is completely fake as far as i know. the messages go straight into the garbage they’re not read by anybody.

      • FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.auEnglish
        2·
        10 小时前

        If you get banned as soon as you comment it’s because you’re IP banned. They have automated checks at least once a day that ban anyone from a blacklisted IP, but every single post triggers a IP check.

    • TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.worldEnglish
      152·
      2 天前

      I’ve gotten IP banned twice. Once for talking about my cat killing rabbits (violence!) and once for talking about racist attacks against my local mayor by right wing nutjobs (supporting racism).

      It’s astoundingly stupid. I was never once ever even banned or blocked from a subreddit until like 2022. Then I started repeatedly getting bans from lots of subs for racism, sexism and violence. Mostly for throughful comments that were getting tons of upvotes then I’d get some personal comment from a mod about what a jerk I was and how if I think men/women are the same, and race isn’t a huge pivotal thing, and violence is part of life… well then apparently I’m sexist, racist, and promoting violence. I also pointed out some obvious viral marketing going on in some subs… and banned. I also start getting harassed and targetted and followed by people on the site. It was so weird to have someone show up in other subs to insult/harass me or the constant PMs from weirdos. Never ever got those until like '22 as well.

      Reddit was great when it was small. People were reasonable and chill mostly and debate was allowed. I learned so much from so many great communities. Now it’s just a corporate echo chamber that wants a inoffensive as possible Disney like image. It’s run by dingbats with zero ability to make normal judgements and caters to nutbags and bad actors who actively abuse things.

      That said IRL things are so getting worse. My entire life I’ve mostly head the same opinions… and now all the sudden I’m ‘evil’ because I don’t agree with exteremist/ignorance-first agendas being pushed so hard.

    • Ibex@lemmy.worldEnglish
      13·
      2 天前

      I’m currently on a 3 day ban on Reddit for “threatening others” because someone was going on about how they would smash people with telekinesis and I made a comment saying you could simply bend a prion without being dramatic and drawing attention to yourself.

  • Hanrahan@slrpnk.netEnglish
    15·
    2 天前

    I kibd of agree.with this one, on the other hand reddit is not my circus and those mods are not my monkeys.

    Hell, I never understood why anyone worked for free to make the owners richer ? Here I get (and thank you), like an old school BBS but reddit makes zero sense as a mod.

  • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.todayEnglish
    37·
    2 天前

    Reddit has been dead since February, when Spez met with The Goblin, and then permabanned thousands, maybe millions of highly active accounts, including me. I was permabanned for repeating a post I had made many times with no issues. After 12 years, and almost a million Karma, I was suddenly too dangerous to allow on the platform, along with thousands of others.

    We high volume posters built Reddit, but we shifted from being assets to problems after Trump was elected again.

    • HuskerNation@lemmy.zipEnglish
      201·
      2 天前

      “subreddits will stop displaying subscriber counts and instead show their “unique number of unique visitors over the last seven days, based on a rolling 28-day average,” Reddit’s rep said. Notably, old.reddit.com will not get these new stats but will still lose subscriber counts”

      They are hiding,for stock purposes, their declining numbers from everyone they have banned. 12 year user I never said anything outlandish just dark humor that I always have. Stuff that would have been easily ok 10 years ago. Nope no more

      • FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.auEnglish
        1·
        10 小时前

        Unique visitor numbers are much, much more important than total subscriber numbers though. Total subscriber numbers include accounts that have been inactive for years.

    • DNS@discuss.onlineEnglish
      8·
      2 天前

      I was permabanned for saying fascists need to get curb stomped like one forefathers did.

      I like how Reddit hosts the most hateful, vile, racist subreddits and bans people like me for not condoning it. That doublespeak is chefs kiss

      • JawnZ@lemmy.todayEnglish
        5·
        2 天前

        I still use RIF with a Revanced patch- the few weeks before I figured out how to do that I was zero time on reddit. That’s probably healthier for me.

        I’m trying to shift over to Lemmy more and more it’s just difficult with some smaller/niche communities. But it’s worth the effort given how much spez is on his knees.

    • Ibex@lemmy.worldEnglish
      151·
      2 天前

      They updated their automod stuff a few months back and if you don’t follow the script you get banned very easily now.

      • Cousin Mose@lemmy.hogru.chEnglish
        441·
        3 天前

        I’m always like “who the fuck uses Instagram?” I guess I’m living in a different world entirely.

        • coronach@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
          3·
          1 天前

          My nontechnical hobby circle is all about the insta, sadly. Facebook, too. It’s an uphill battle full of people that expect you have them: They look at you funny if you don’t have one. It’s as if you said you don’t have email.

        • Bronzebeard@lemmy.zipEnglish
          32·
          2 天前

          Primarily 20s-30s something women. If you’re not that demographic, you might not be keen on is usage.

          • Holytimes@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            1·
            2 天前

            Don’t forget 20-30 dudes who don’t know how to wash or talk to women desperately trying to chase those women.

      • Cris@lemmy.worldEnglish
        191·
        3 天前

        Just remember, people will be more open to trying the stuff you’re into if you’re compassionate about the things they’re frustrated with!

        (This is intended for anyone who wants friends or acquaintances to try the fediverse platforms. For those who don’t or don’t care that’s perfectly valid too :)

      • scintilla@crust.piefed.socialEnglish
        621·
        3 天前

        First picture I found on Google for each because I’m lazy but there they are with pictures attached.

        Piefed
        Piefed

        Lemmy
        Lemmy

        Mastodon
        Mastodon

        Pixelfed
        Pixelfed

            • Bronzebeard@lemmy.zipEnglish
              71·
              2 天前

              Most of the big ones at least have some kind of coherence behind their naming scheme.

              The open source stuff is like: prehistoric hairy elephant, misspelled name of animal used as a metaphorical comparison for people doing dumb shit in a mob which seems to be insulting it’s users, and then some random words slapped onto the word fed - none of which sound good.

            • njordomir@lemmy.worldEnglish
              2·
              2 天前

              I thought Diaspora was a decent sounding name. If it had more traction and actually pulled a sizeable diaspora away from Facebook it would have fit better than Facebook, Twitter/X, or Instagram’s names.

          • interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.mlEnglish
            9·
            3 天前

            Is it like, a whole other network with different people or is it like a different front-end to the lemmyverse ? This is kind of confusing ? And what about that “kbin” I keep hearing about, is that the same deal ?

            • ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.netEnglish
              281·
              3 天前

              Lemmy is a software that people can host on their computer, and many people doing that form what is essentially a bunch of mini-reddits that can talk to each other to create one big platform.

              Piefed is trying to fulfill the same goals as Lemmy, and is even fully compatible with Lemmy, so someone hosting a piefed server on their computer can join in with all the Lemmy servers, and to the Lemmy people, it appears to them like any other Lemmy server.

              But underneath everything, the code base is entirely different. The commonality they share, along with mastodon, is they all use ActivityPub, which is the standard that allows them to all communicate and be compatible with each other, just like there’s an email standard.

              Kbin (now Mbin) is yet another Lemmy compatible software that you can host on your computer, but it also tried to implement features that make it more like mastodon (twitter-like), so it can act both like reddit, with threads and comments and communities around single subjects, or be like mastodon and work with hashtags and following individuals instead of communities, like a microblogging website.

              They also use different interfaces, but it’s only visible to people who directly use that server; to others who access it from their home server, it’ll adopt the look of the software their home server is using.

              So as an example, you are using Lemmy since your home server is Lemmy.ml. if you visit a community hosted on a piefed server from within your Lemmy, like !fullmoviesonyoutube@piefed.social, it’ll look like any other Lemmy community.

              But if you directly go to that piefed server by going to https://piefed.social/c/fullmoviesonyoutube you’ll see it from the piefed interface, since you’re accessing that piefed server directly.

              All of three of the different federated Reddit-like softwares are intercompatible, so they all make up one big network.

                • ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.netEnglish
                  1·
                  2 天前

                  I would suggest that it is as complex as you wish to know.

                  My explanation above is not truly required to effectively use a federated platform, in the same way that most email users don’t actually know how precisely email works, and would find an in-depth explanation of it very complex.

                  All someone needs to know about email is that they must login to their email host provider, and that every user they might send email to has a unique name, and possibly a different host name after the @ symbol.

                  In the same way, the only thing someone needs to know about this platform, is they must login to the same place they signed up to (their host provider). They can then use it in a similar way to reddit. They might wonder why usernames or communities have different names after the @, but it doesn’t actually impede using the platform to not understand.

                  If anything, that might make it easier to use than email.

            • Ulrich@feddit.orgEnglish
              7·
              3 天前

              Neither. It’s fully compatible with Lemmy but different on both the front and backends.

              Summoning @rimu@piefed.social

            • Stillwater@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
              31·
              3 天前

              It’s a different frontend with different features. You could be reading this very post on a Piefed instance instead of a Lemmy instance. Ditto for kbin.