The gloomy sentiment around Reddit Inc. has failed to dissipate after its shares fell 50% from a February high, with volatile technology stocks under pressure.

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    The value of Reddit is the content which it is able to create. If users aren’t free to create content, there is not value.

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    Good. I got banned just today for “inciting violence” then when I asked what I did they couldn’t tell me. Musk pressuring spez into harsher moderation is probably part of why I was actually banned. I followed every rule but was active in left wing communities and it seems that’s enough to be deplatformed under the trump regime.

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      Holy shit, me too.

      They said I threatened violence because in a thread about Putin potentially being sick, I said I wished he had a painful slow death.

      Apparently even bloodthirsty dictators get to have their poor feelings protected by Reddit.

      Fuck Reddit! I’m just gonna abandon that shit platform

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        I had two main accounts. My oldest account got permabanned for a joke about Nick Fuentes. After his address got doxxed and he pepper sprayed a woman who rang his doorbell back in December of last year, I said “hey as an incel he should be happy that the ladies know where he lives now so they can share a cocktail with him”, and I added a cartoon gif of a Molotov. It was obviously a joke, but they said it was “promoting/glorifying violence”. I ate the bullet on that one because they were technically right, even if they were a bunch of humorless twats.

        My other account got banned about a month ago when I up voted a comment that was just a picture of Luigi Luigi (the Nintendo character) smoking a cigarette. Again for “promoting/glorifying violence”.

        Elon Musk is a weak little crybaby and Steve Huffman is a pathetic coward.

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          sounds like you were part of the ban waves going on. there was one around the election, another around DEC mid, we noticed because reddit was extremely quiet of all propaganda for like a day or 2.

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            Yeah they’ve come out and said recently that even interacting with any content or comments that could so much as be perceived as being related to Luigi Mangione is a violation of Reddits policies against promoting violence. People have been getting warnings that their accounts are in danger of being permanently banned just for visiting certain subs. Not for posting. Not for commenting. Not even for voting. Just for visiting.

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        you got brigaded by pro-russian bots, and yes russian backed trolls do mass report people too.

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        Idek wtf i said lmaoo. Atleast you got told you were deplatformed for daring to disagree with the regime. I just got shown the door. This place seems much nicer though.

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          a ludicrous ban, is when i got “temp banned for report abuse” turns out if you report too many people who have spreading misinformaiton or lies, you get automatically flagged. the community is keeping the trolls in check, while mods and reddit admins sititng on thier asses of selective moderation.

          and we know certain subs, are owned by a few power mods. LEO controls multiude of mods about crime and law subs(this includes the videos subs). askdoc is probably the only sub/medical is correctly moderated, they do it to prevent pseudoscience/ misinformation, one time after '16 election, someone try to analyze Hillaries facial movements as having some kind of stroke(the mods shut that down very quick)

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            The excuse to ban someone over reporting will never not be hilarious to me. Like dawg, sorry were making you do your fucking job and improve your site.

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          Well, I had enough of this bullshit, and together with news that Reddit’s CEO was pressured by Musk of all people to curb dissent, I just deleted my accounts.

          Bye Reddit.

          I’m 100% a Lemmee guy now

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      I was Permanently banned for harassment because I asked a mod why they banned me.

      Mind you, I’d ask, and they’d mute me for a week straight instead of just pointing out what got me banned.

      lol I pray for their downfall; this news pleases me.

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        Some mods are in cahoots with the admins, so they can just exaggerate the seriousness of a report and get people banned.

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      Harsher moderation followed by a bot farm the richest man payed for to report every account that is critical of Nazis.

      I’m not even kidding. At this point the amount of comments on Lemmy that I’ve read that had 10+ year old Reddit accounts banned for “inciting violence” is crazy. I was one of them a few months ago. Told a dude denying a Nazi salute was a Nazi salute to “go to hell where Nazis belong”. Was banned within an hour. Permanent and IP/Metadata banned. Instant response of “no” to my unban request.

      This is not a unique experience either. Leave reddit like it’s the plague. Digg died because of bad decisions. Reddit seems like it’s gonna become 4chan but for the mainstream. I don’t know if it’ll die. I think they’re purging anyone that has leftist profiles.

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        I’m just sad that I’m leaving all the marvel and action figure collector communities i was apart of behind. But yeah I don’t plan on going back. It’s gonna become infested with nazis sooner or later anyway.

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          Yeah that’s probably for the best. I say this with no judgement as a former WoW addict. It’s the time to do shit in the real world and get organized to resist these Fascist. Hit up PSL (Party for Socialism and Liberation) or DSA (Democratic Socialist of America) in your area. If anything it will give you a social life on Friday/Saturday (usually when they have meetups for PSL in my experience). PSL in my area even organized child care during meetups/protests.

          Also, your local SRA (Socialist Rifle Association) if you have one. Basically the only place to train with a weapon that isn’t filled with MAGA hats. But they have literally been overwhelmed since November so might have to deal with hogs in another course if you’re interested in that. Again, depends on your location.

          That’s my experience trying to explore real life anyway. Your path might be different. Plenty of mutual aids to join. Lots of local organizations of any kind our leading the charge to resist ICE. Depending on your location that might be a Mosque, Synagogue, Church, Temple, etc. (Thats one of the main reasons they now legally allow ICE to raid them. Which is FUBAR.) Find out what works for you in your area.

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        2nd richest, many people believe mr PUTIN IS, AND he does have the largest troll farm in existence(which is the reason why many countries in the mess they are right now. and Musks master is putin, since hes likely funded twitter purchase, musk have been seen with one of putins propaganda chiefs in qatar right after it was bought.

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      Oh yea the generic “site wide ban message doesnt even tell you what the violation was” i think it gives reddit arbitrary and vague reasoning to ban you.

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        I really hope the company burns. It became everything it used to make fun of since Spez took over.

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    I’m fairly certain they misled investors on their last earnings call. I noticed some banned accounts suddenly had their ban lifted right before the call, and then reapplied right after.

    On the last investor call, they said they had a lot of returning users. This was after their election ban hammers, and prior to the Luigi ban fest.

    Can’t wait to see how they try to spin things on the next one.

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    Hey cool beans we’re the direct result of that! What good news!

    I trust reddit as far as I can throw it these days.

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    I mean, with all the censoring and pandering to Musk, allowing for entire bot swarms to the point it really becomes obvious it’s happening - who could have predicted this?

    That’s right, kids. Allying yourself with fascist tendencies in any way, shape or form will hurt you in the long run. Just provide the damn service people are looking for and stop playing god, trying to use your platform to shape opinions and censor statements you or your buddies don’t like.

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    Shouldn’t suprise anyone especially with the recent grovelling before Musk.

    I’ve created this account here today particularly because I found that behaviour absolutely disgusting.

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      Idk, I doubt the advertising partners really have a problem with reddit porn. This dip is likely a reflection of the article linking reddit moderation policies to Elon Musk (absolutely hilarious that he’s so toxic to stocks he’s killing other people’s companies now). I don’t think this is even a reflection of a drop in users yet,

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        People left Reddit during the election. The new left pushing the Luigi good narrative just got spanked and migrated here, and the others that took issue with the retarded policies of the Dems and Republicans were also banned. Basically Reddit pissed off everyone regardless of where they were on the political spectrum. They’re fucked.

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      literally one of the 2 reasons I haven’t quit reddit completely (the other being I’m slowly deleting all my comments)

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        you can use powersuite delete i believe, and there are extensions, but much slower than the github one.

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        You can just use a bot/service to do that. It’ll even edit them before deleting them, so if it’s ever recovered it’ll just look like some gibberish random words

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    No surprise; It’s seemingly all bots arguing with other bots now anyway.

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    Lol suck shit reddit. Rot in piss you won’t be missed!

    It might be at least a little missed for all the useful info and history that it had accumulated over these decades… But oh well.

    They shat this bed they get to lay in it

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      for all the useful info

      Recently, I’ve been questioning how useful the reddit info actually is. I’ve been lurking in multiple subreddits related to things I’m actually quite knowledgeable at, and the amount of times I’ve seen people asking questions and getting absolutely bogus answers that were highly downvoted was just… concerning. Not to mention how often the correct answer was heavily downvoted for absolutely no reason. That’s when I realised - hey, maybe redditors aren’t that smart after all? I can detect the bullshit for the things I actually know, then what about things that I don’t? Should I trust them?

      Not to mention that to get the info you want, usually you’ll have to get through a bunch of shitty jokes, going off topic, rants and even some “totally-not-sponsored” comments.

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        You’re noticing that Gell-Mann Amnesia.

        I looked it up yesterday because I kept seeing it in an Angela Collier video title and I realised that despite watching the video and re-checking the info several times, I could never remember what Gell-Mann amnesia was, and that was too ironic to be allowed to continue. So this time instead of looking it up and going “ooohh, that’s right, okay, nevermind”, I went, "okay, now repeat it to yourself until you’re sure you won’t have to look it up again".

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        Thank you for saying it. Reddit still has a pocket in the public conciousness that its still the 1st place to go for answers. It isn’t and it hasn’t been for a loooooooooong time. Not just for the reasons you say, but severe tomfuckery with what they show to SE indexing bots. Most of the links that lead into Reddit are shady as fuck, rarely lead to any good information, and are clearly bubblesorted up in the search algos for mysterious reasons we can’t know in specifics. I did hardcore SEO for 2 years so I have at least a spidey-sense that there’s major shenanigans.

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      wanna hear some just as ridiculous, apparenlty skin color, and DEMOgraphic was considered a racist word, ever since trump came into power, all the subs became too sensitive around african american words, and it was a removal at best, Immediate sub ban at worst. also around the same time many non-reddit forums became extremely sensitive about words regarding any POC, when its not even meant to be deragatory term.

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    Good, Reddit has no place in the stock market and no amount of enshittification can save them from this fate.