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I just picked up another permanent ban in one of the Ukraine subreddits on a post that showed a Russian solder walking with a crutch. Someone was pointing out hat it looked like he was faking it. I replied something like "Well, a drone will probably sort things about either way". Apparently this is supporting violence now.
I've been on reddit since 2009. The place sure has gone fucking downhill. It was bad enough in the_donald days when the admins went so far out of their way and up their own butt to accommodate those fascists, but now this fucking AI moderation is just stupid.
I've lost about three accounts in the past year or two because things that used to be well within the norms are now considered harrassment. I'm fine with polite conversation, but jesus fucking christ they have gone absolutely overboard.
I'm waiting a couple of days before I create a new account, and again backing off my participation there - at this point to just my local city subreddit and one other that I was moderating. But that's it. Fuck the rest of reddit.
I'd consider myself pretty fucking vanilla when it comes to how I behave online, and even I got permabans (not a whole account, but several subreddits). It really feels like you cannot speak about anything online anymore without everyone actively interpreting what you say in the least favorable way possible. I have experienced similar on Lemmy, but at least no one permabanned me for having an opinion yet, so that's something at least.
I'll take a few crazy assholes making weird accusations over being permabanned for no reason or worse: shadowbanned. Especially on youtube, I get the feeling that my comments are being shadowbanned on nearly every channel I comment on. It used to be that one could at least chat with other people in the comments on there, but within the last year, I just don't get any reactions to anything I write anywhere. And I'm the type of bitch who watches cat videos, cake decoration videos and follow channels that cover media like movies and video games.
I have censored myself more, less curse words and such, but nothing helps. People simply don't see my comments anymore. It's such a bizarre feeling after having used youtube since it started in 2005 and all of a sudden feeling like I have been cut off from communicating with anyone despite still being able to comment and like videos.
Gonna sound like I'm minimizing your reply - please forgive me, I'm not: There's a wild difference between subreddit bans and sitewide bans, though. Lots of shitty mods out there because all you have to do to become a mod is make a subreddit that takes off, so the fact that you do get some occasional great mods is the surprise. A sitewide ban for bullshit reasons is much stupider since the admins should be hiring people trained to admin the site properly.
That said… still sucks very much to get unjustified bans at any level. Especially with no true appeal system in place.
Every site will get things wrong....... but it feels like reddit keeps going out of their way to make things shittier and shitter.
Oh yeah, don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that getting banned from a sub is the same as having an entire account removed. It was my clumsy attempt to show how easy it is to get fucked over by reddit and that when some basic bitch like me can get banned from subs I never interacted with, it shows that the values of the site has slipped and that there isn't far from small actions like that to suddenly removing long time users from the platform.
I should have been more specific. It just seems like reddit has rotted to the core and is run at all levels by losers who got a little bit of power and became tyrants with it.
And conversely, I really wasn't minimizing that, either. Because both - sitewide and subreddit bans for no good reason - are fucking dumb. lol. Sorry to have not explained myself well <3
I think for the admins, it's less about the power and more about shit like the reasons Musk is ruining Twitter - money, political gain. But I know they've abused power, too^[Like when a certain founder edited comments of others because they could], so it's probably a combo of all of that.
But yeah, either way, reddit is rotten, and it's a bummer, because it used to be one of the best places on the internet for good discussion, information, all sorts of crap.
Well, here's hoping Lemmy continues to grow. It truly does seem to remind me favorably of reddit's early days, although I wish there was a bit more in-depth conversation on some topics. But I think I'm also a product of previous decades in that regard anyway. heh