I had never been banned before.

At least they sent you a message instead of just making your account not work.

I got shadowbannned after posting about politics.

I never called for or celebrated violence, didn’t upvote pictures of Luigi (which they have a STRANGE hard-on for) or any of that. I just posted neutrally-worded opinions.

Shadowbanning is an abusive behavior and Reddit has been about that for well over a decade. On Twitter, you do something they don’t like, they just tell you, “you have to delete this tweet and wait 12 hours” or whatever. On Reddit, your account just gets “weird” with strange error messages. You have to go digging for information on the phenomenon because they don’t display a message or send an email about it.

The cute little aliens are there to paper over the fact that Reddit’s leadership has no concept of user advocacy. You’re just rows in a few tables to them. You’re the product that’s being sold, and as far as they’re concerned that gives you the same rights as any other product on a shelf.

They are still sending me emails with cute little aliens in them, even though my account is hosed. This is how disjointed they are.

Someone else wrote that on Reddit, the users and admins hate each other. I think that’s true.

True, they’ve already demonstrated a great capacity to fuck up without AI so this will just be more of the same

Gemini is a bargain basement shit AI

Neither is right

It’s also for middle class people flying around in single-engine bug smashers

Hey hey

I love feeding my bloated node_modules

Reminds me of that thing Lex Luthor did where he sponged off rounding errors in financial transactions

Not just restrictive of free speech. Openly abusive to users. Shadowbanning with zero indication of what is going on, or why.

Reddit is the Titanic, leadership is the iceberg, and the fediverse is the hungry ocean.

Everything he does basically invites people to say mean stuff about him.

Perhaps he could just stop doing those things? Thinking out loud here,

It’s the same “I want to make you feel bad” smirk

They call themselves conservatives, but they’re radicals (the polar opposite) through and through.

Reddit opens YouTube links in an internal browser where it can’t see you’re already logged in. Been like that for YEARS.

Reddit no longer deserves r/place

The Jews aren’t the Boogeyman of the current palingenetic fantasy, so they’ll be largely left alone (unless they protest Israel.)

I saw a picture of his sister. She has that same well-practiced smirk

I posted stuff about politics and my account suddenly couldn’t comment. Weird error messages, no actual communication from Reddit about what or why or how long. Decisions about functionality are being made in meetings by people who are absolutely not interested in the users as anything but things whose only value is whether they can be monetized.