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Reddit's zero vote submissions
It looks like there are many submissions now being downvoted across many subs.
Before the API change I never really noticed mass submissions with zero votes. Now i see multiple zero vote submissions daily and I browse Reddit for about 20 minutes a day. My feed is set to sort by hot, so I don't see many submissions that have just been created.
Is this a sign of the type of people using Reddit these days, a lack of moderation, or could there be some bots floating mass downvoting?
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Reddit is down again
Anyone here keeping track of how many times Reddit is down?
Because Reddit is down again
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Is Reddit even trying anymore?
I'm trying not to read too much into the fact that Reddit is down right now, but I've noticed pages have been increasingly slow to load lately, and I get a lot of messages about server errors even just voting on comments. It seems like they're barely even keeping the lights on. Anyone else notice the same thing?
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Reddit, inadvertently becoming "Kill All Others"
I made 1 comment ever on r/trump which I am not even subbed to...
Imagine being brandished an enemy over a misunderstanding, and banned from an entire community. Especially via an automated method they admit isnt perfect? Now I must appeal? For what again? -- That is Kill All Others mentality, and I am labeled the Other.
For context: I try to be a centrist, a proper one with proper devil's advocation. I usually end up voting Democrat, but I like moderate Democrats and progressive Republicans. (But to be fair, even r/centrist over on Reddit is very... American-Left ideology). I think case-by-case application of ideologies to scenarios is best.
Here is them muting me for my shocked reply: !
EDIT: Just wanted to specify with the above picture, I do not believe any side is correct, hence my use of quotation marks. Choosing sides at all, especially in a two-party system, is a mess and we have been warned this many times by many different successful leaders/philosophers. Even our founding fathers warned this... I would say this to an alt-right just as quickly as I do the alt-left.
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Suspicion that Reddit is weeding out human users
Was recently granted the privilege of a permanent ban on reddit for a username I had for over four years and it led me down the rabbit hole of seeing more and more claims from other people who went through similar experiences. Hell, there's a lot of them. Frivolous reports resulting in punishment, appeals being automatically denied, the works, etc.
It might just be a presumption, seeing how many bots slide under the radar each day on that site through posts and comments, but I have a strong feeling that most (seemingly random) admin bans are designed to flush out active and semi-active human users rather than weed out bot code posing as people online. The end goal? Whether it's to create an automated, cyclical platform designed to extract marketing and ad revenue from a steady stream of new users or anything else for that matter, I know not. All I know for certain is that the ban tendencies have ramped up in the recent year and the people actually being punished for it are those who have been using it for long periods of time and manage to conveniently fall on the edge of a subjective TOS offense.
I had my suspicions that it was gradually turning into an AI-fueled cesspit, but now I've had my chance to really believe that it has. Good riddance in that case
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Reddit mods now just default to IP bans
So I've discovered recently that instead the moderators and admins doing their due diligence, they'll just ban your IP. I can't wait for this to blow up in their face.
- finance.yahoo.com Reddit Battles Meta and Google Using Ads Based on Topics — Not Your Data
(Bloomberg) -- Reddit Inc. spent more than a decade known as the internet’s edgy bulletin board, a site where mostly anonymous users could post memes and share wild opinions on topics ranging from investing advice to Taylor Swift’s love life. It was also a service many advertisers tended to avoid.Mo...
- www.buzl.uk That time Reddit banned me for developing an app
Reddit did me dirty. I did them too. This is the story of how I got a permanent ban from Reddit for developing a non-commercial open-source client called Geddit.
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bulk / spam postings across the site
Just curious if anyone else has noticed (I'm sure some have) posts that some accounts make across an enormous number of subreddits lately.
I stopped using Reddit for most of things when I joined Lemmy but my partner posts NSFW stuff there still since the community for that in Lemmy is still quite small, and occasionally we see accounts making thousands or more posts across an ungodly number of nsfw subreddits. It's almost always promotional spam (OF, etc) and more often than not it's blindly posted and either doesn't follow the rules of the subreddit or is outright inappropriate for it (e.g. posting to specific kink subreddits while the post has literally nothing to do with that kink). Some of these accounts even seem to automatically reply to some comments with what appears to be chat-gpt type comments and usually it's super obvious it's a bot.
In my mind I figure this is just some shady service paying for reddit's API access and charging these clueless "creators" to promote their stuff across the entire site. How effective that actually is in generating leads for their OF, etc I would be very interested to know but it's probably minimal, maybe not, I dunno.
Anyway, I did a very brief search online for services offering this sort of thing but didn't come across anything. Just curious if anyone knows about it or how people are getting onto these braindead posting services. Not looking for links or anything just thought it was interesting (if not frustrating spam) for a discussion.
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do reddit admins actually read appeals?
my reddit account is suspended for 3 (now 2) days, and the reason was for inciting violence. and i did say violent stuff but i was talking about in a video game, and the original post was asking people about heinous things they've done in the game. and i sent an appeal but i don't know if it will do anything because i heard reddit moderators are like, shitty
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The changes to Reddits privacy policy
For anyone who's interested, not many important changes aside from the fact that Reddit is now kindly asking it's users to go through arbitration when they have a complaint about the DPF
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I got perma banned on reddit for absolutely nothing
I'm a lurker. I don't post on facebook or reddit or anywhere. Today I randomly got a message from reddit that my account was permanently banned for apparent repeated violations of their site wide rules. I have the ReVanced app on my phone that blocks ads on reddit just so those scumbags can't profit off me lurking, but it's the only reason I could fathom that is why I've been banned. Anyway I just wanted to vent so thanks for reading this if you did. Reddit fucking sucks.
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Why are there no bots that post Reddit content on Lemmy?
Genuine question.
There are tons of niche subs on Reddit that aren't on Lemmy or don't have enough people posting. Lemmy could benefit from bots that automatically post Reddit content. Why is this not a thing?
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I use RDX to browse reddit without supporting the site in any way. It's a good app; but man, fuck reddit. This is literally just a rant. You won't miss much if you just scroll past.
I usually browse rdx to stay up to date with my favorite things: games, halloween, steam deck, etc. Today, im going to bitch about the fo76 sub, and the steam deck sub. Im so, SO tired of these posts.
Fo76: so many fucking annoying posts of people jacking themselves off and farming karma. "To the level 14 player whos collectron i pillaged" blah blah blah "i didnt know you were only level 14" blah blah blah "i left you 1000 caps as an apology and im glad you could get them" blah blah fucking blah. We all know you're just jerking yourself off and farming karma. Shut the FUCK UP and stop clogging the sub reddit for actual good posts.
And steamdeck? This sub can fuck off to the furthest reaches of hell. I want tips, tricks, game performance reports, steam deck news and tech support. I dont want to see 1000 pictures of people holding their steam deck alongside some phoned in bullshit about how they're LOVING their steam deck! Congrats! You're using the device as intended! Now shut the fuck up! Fuck off! Although, my disdain for that place is in part because of the garbage, power abusing mods, these fucking posts are just karma whoring mind rot in my opinion.
And yes before you ask, i do in fact feel better now that i got that out.
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Got fooled by a repost bot complaining about the several communities on Lemmy, thankfully someone spotted it.
Thank you /u/FitikWasTaken!
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Concerning behaviour on r/lemmy, by reddit "supermoderator" u/LeninMeowMeow
u/LeninMeowMeow moderates a large amount of big subreddits, r/therightcantmeme, r/gamingcirclejerk, r/animememes, r/greenandpleasent (a known russian propaganda subreddit source: Center for European Policy Analysis (think Lemmygrad)) and much more.
Anyways on r/lemmy, he says that lemmy.world is right-wing and thatcherite. I reply that it is more social democratic.
I instantly get banned from the subreddits he moderates and blocked by him. I have not commented or participated in any of their subreddits before, and this is my first ever encounter with them.
Weird and concerning behaviour. I fear that tankies are taking over most left wing spaces on reddit (not that I really use reddit for politics anymore, that’s why I’m on lemmy, but for the implications to our democracies, as a non-negligible chunk of voters are politically influenced by reddit).
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Is Reddit automatically translating posts now??
I'm so confused, is this a new thing?? I was looking for German People's experiences with Narcolepsy and Google suggested a Reddit thread about athletes with Narcolepsy. It was in German, so I just assumed it was a German author, but it quickly became weird when the author said "you" instead of "y'all" and mentioned upping his running miles every week.
I checked at the top any yep, there was a little "See Original" button that translated the post to English.
Am I alone in thinking that this is kinda weird and icky? Like this are people speaking about their personal experiences, just pulling their words through automatic translation can kill so much meaning and context. Not even to mention that it makes the search engine result useless for me, as I was specifically looking for German posts :/
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Why is the banner for this community an ad for the Barbie movie?
Title says it all. I usually browse on mobile, so I never noticed this
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Some subreddits could be paywalled, hints Reddit CEO
9to5mac.com Some subreddits could be paywalled, hints Reddit CEO - 9to5MacReddit CEO Steve Huffman has hinted that in future some subreddits could be paywalled, as the company seeks to devise...
- www.engadget.com Reddit CEO teases AI search features and paid subreddits
Reddit just wrapped up its second earnings call as a public company and CEO Steve Huffman hinted at some significant changes that could be coming to the platform. 3
> Reddit just wrapped up its second earnings call as a public company and CEO Steve Huffman hinted at some significant changes that could be coming to the platform.
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Reddit /r/piracy in tumoil as a mod caught taking bribes to promote posts
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/24850718
> All the principled pirates have jumped ship to lemmy so it was bound to happen sooner than later.
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So i decided to change my previous reddit account name and pfp to lemmy stuff
I wonder if i will get banned lol and got this idea from someone also reddit did not let me put a lemmy link for some reason
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Alternative method for disabling annoying subreddit styles for when they hide the button
Some subreddits change their CSS in annoying ways, even hiding the "Use subreddit style" toggle that RES provides.
The fix that worked for me:
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to bring up a RES command window - enter
srstyle off
Hopefully that helps when you need to use old.reddit for something, at least until it stops working for good
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- www.404media.co Google Is the Only Search Engine That Works on Reddit Now Thanks to AI Deal
DuckDuckGo, Bing, Mojeek, and other search engines are not returning full Reddit results any more.
- www.theverge.com Reddit’s NFL, NBA deals bring more sports highlights — and ads
More player AMAs could be coming, too.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/17859896
> More player AMAs could be coming, too.
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Conservative Bots and Bad Actors Are Swarming R/Millenials Right Now
It's unbelievable how vocal the minority of conservatives on reddit have suddenly gotten in the one sub where a large demographic of important voters often interact. Hmmm. Coincidence?
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Reddit mods ban for "not punctuating correcttly"
mastodon.social Gregory (@[email protected])Attached: 1 image Some of the new Reddit mods are so toxic. Instead of apologizing for the bot being too harsh and reinstating my submission, they just banned me because I dared to ask what exactly I didn't "punctuate correctly".
> Some of the new Reddit mods are so toxic. Instead of apologizing for the bot being too harsh and reinstating my submission, they just banned me because I dared to ask what exactly I didn't "punctuate correctly".