Screenshots of reddit.com/r/all on mobile as it appeared immediately after loading (did not scroll), taken at 12:34 and 12:40 PST; look what suddenly disappeared from the #1 post spot! That’s a rather specific “server error”…
I happened to take the first screenshot (12:34) because I thought it was suspicious enough that they were suddenly dealing with an unspecified “error” right as bad news about the site hit the top of r/all. Then a few minutes later (~12:38) the site didn’t load at all. A few minutes after that, the bad press post is gone from r/all. If you go to the post now (https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/1jl6smd/elon_musk_pressured_reddits_ceo_on_content/), it says “Sorry, this post has been removed by the moderators of r/politics” (marked as “off-topic”).
Elon is a pseudo cabinet member, laughable to consider this off topic.
Is this why I just got permabanned there for explaining that “globalist” is an antisemetic dogwhistle? They said I was using hatespeech and when I contested it, my sub ban (r/dandadan of all places) became a permanent site-wide ban.
Lol, do I wanna know why you were banned from Dandadan?
Genuinely nothing bad. Someone used the term “space globalists” to describe a faction in the manga, so I explained why globalist was an antisemetic term by explaining the context it gets used in irl as well as by providing specific examples of Alex Jones using the term and examples of him explaining why he uses it (he has, on rare occassion, said that you call them globalists instead of jews because the latter is a bad look, essentially). I did use some vulgar language and imagery, but only in quoting/paraphrasing what these types have actually said about their own beliefs.
The part of the ruling that said it was off topic was, imo, fair as I did break that rule, but specifically using it to disallow people pointing out hate speech, while also deeming it hate speech, and while leaving the dogwhistle I responded to up all makes it feel very sus ngl.
I asked their mods how what I said was qualified as hate speech and instead of getting any explanation, their response was a 2-day sitewide ban. After bringing it to admins, they, again instead of giving any reasoning to the ruling, just banned me from the site fullstop.
“As I mentioned before, exposure to true information does not matter anymore,” said Bezmenov. “A person who was demoralized is unable to assess true information. The facts tell nothing to him…show him a concentration camp, he will refuse to believe it, until he receives a kick in his fan-bottom. When a military boot crashes his balls then he will understand. But not before that."
https://bigthink.com/the-present/yuri-bezmenov/
The article is actually much more damning and urgent than this, but I don’t want to seem too off topic.
They’ve all been brainwashed into believing the propaganda (globalist!!11!!1) or are tuned out of politics entirely
Dark times
how in the fuck is a post about that “off-topic”? Fucking sell outs.
sell outs
Well, yes. That’s entirely the point. It started years ago with the quarantining of fringe subs like WPD or Spacedicks, followed by allowing extremist subs like T_D to continue unfettered. Those were red flags many recognized, and Spez made it plainly obvious he was planning on commercializing Reddit and wanted a platform for advertisers. He didn’t lie about that, it was openly stated. Those events were followed up by cramming the Reddit app down our throats, the closing of the API, removing mods and communities protesting Reddit actions, the cleanup of anti-Spez art on /place, forcing ads into the feed, etc., etc. Now we have tacit support of censorship in support of an oligarch.
IOW complaining that Reddit “sold out” is a bit late. It happened a while ago. Now they’re licking the boot
Eventually the comic will be removed too
Reddit hides posts you’ve already viewed
That, along with hide on up or downvote, is a account setting, and iirc isn’t on by default.
I believe the algorithm skips already seen posts so that you don’t see them again, whether this is on or off
why is the /r/comics post still there then?
Your post got removed probably because it presumably violated Rule 14 of the subreddit on their disallowed submission types.
"Disallowed submission types
/r/Politics is a serious political discussion forum. To facilitate that type of discussion, all submissions must be articles, videos or sound clips. The following are also disallowed:
Satire or humor pieces. These submissions are better suited to /r/PoliticalHumor. Political cartoons can be posted in the Saturday Morning Political Cartoon Thread. Links that solicit users (Active petitions, signature campaigns, requests for money, surveys or polls). Submissions that are user-generated content without editorial oversight (ex: C-SPAN clips, selfposts/textposts, reddit polls, any submissions with user created text) Political advertisements as submissions. Advertisers should buy ad space on reddit.com if they wish to advertise on Reddit. Submissions which are entirely a copy-paste of the original reporting, or that add one paragraph or less, with a "read more at" link to the original content. Articles or videos that add another take on a subject, or include different verbiage or context are otherwise allowed. Live blogs/live threads/live articles"That server error also happens occasionally on their app for basically no reason. It’s not due to any post, I sometimes become unable to see my profile for like a minute before it goes back to normal.
I get and don’t disagree that Reddit is pretty fucking shitty, but not everything has to be or is attributed to some sort of conspiracy on how everything is getting censored because of blah blah whatever. Oh, and breaking a subreddit’s rules and getting your post removed or banned for it isn’t censorship (waaaaaaaay too many people do this istg).
Defend that shitpile all you’d like, I’m never going back.
I’m not telling anyone to go back, buddy. I’m explaining the reasons why this and that happened. That it’s not all due to some conspiracy b.s about censorship whatever.
The post wasn’t even removed. Look at the number of votes in the 12:30 pic vs the number of votes in the 12:34 pic.
That error means you’re shadowbanned. Try opening your profile in incognito it might be suspended
It’s not showing the error now so shrug. Also the account I’m logged in as has engaged in zero activity (no comments, no voting, just lurking) in almost a year, so I don’t know what I’d have suddenly been shadowbanned for.
Are you using Firefox?
Yes
I get these errors too. You’re not shadowbanned.
Are you on VPN? If not, they have your IP address. They probably have a device signature as well.
No it doesn’t. I got this error earlier on a random web search in private mode, not logged in.
No it doesn’t. It happens a lot if you do not use the mobile app. I have a mod account there and my interactions are heard regardless of this error. It might be a FF thing.
I scoured every pixel on every panel of that comic for several minutes OP.
ive seen that happen before, on the anniversary of 9/11, some guy posted a video of the retaliatory bombings, and it was removed pretty quick just like this. no trace.
At this point, being banned from reddit is a badge of honour.
I still have 3 unbanned, high karma accounts that I don’t use anymore. One day I might need them to do a thing.
I still get on reddit, but I just read I don’t vote or contribute in any way. I noticed today that anything critical of trump or his administration was having a difficult time loading, but yet non-trump related content loaded just fine.
Totally not suspicious.
It has gotten more & more tame & lame over there as the bots take over.
It happen to me as well.
Picture of reddit, server error. Obviously.
I had already deleted my reddit apps on my phone and such before switching over to Lemmy. But now that I see Muskrat directly going after reddit similarly to how he did with Twitter, I went ahead and deleted all my accounts. Fuck that place.
