Probably 1/2 of the users on this platform are here as a protest against Reddit. Either the API stuff, or the admins nuking your account, or the mods being… goofy. Or the users, or who knows what.
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It kept throwing subs for Israeli pigs at me, for one.
That and shitty sports that I kept blocking, but it randomly decided the block list didnt exist.
Pointing out that 3/4 of the posts are old junk from karma whores or even suggesting something is AI generated gets you downvoted to oblivion and people calling you anything but nice.
I was on my regional sub Reddit and it turned right-wing real quick. Heard of Lemmy, decide to check it out, after 2-3 months I saw that I was more on Lemmy than Reddit so I deleted it.
In the background the API shit and their opening in the Market was happening so it probably help me to go
I got banned from my state sub by a mod who didn’t live here. Dipshit was a mod on nearly thirty subs. Turns out he/she/it was a right wing shill. That came out in the drama right before I jumped ship and came to lemmy full time.
thats like what happened to cities, states on the west coast. all were controlled by conservatives.
i heard most regional subs have been astroturfed by right wingers, i wouldnt be surprised it came from 1 source.
not interesting, but I got permabanned for ban evasion. I got caught up in the mod meltdown in r/conspiracy after the 2020 election because it was fucking hilarious. still the best popcorn episode that I have ever witnessed. got banned for pissing off axolotl. I used to have a separate account on each device I used because I don’t know, it was just a thing that I did. I was on another device a day or so later and went back and I must have said something similar enough to get reported for evasion. that was it. over the next few days all of the old accounts I had were instantly banned at login. any new accounts that I tried to make were shadowbanned. a while later I found a couple of very old accounts that I was able to keep going by blocking all the conservative subs that I used to argue with people in, until one day I must have slipped up and said something “wrong” because those accounts were shadowbanned too. this was conveniently a short time before the API lockdown, so I just came over here and haven’t gone back except when someone links over there.
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they have fingerprinting methods too, like your looking at your browser version, your time zone, and other things. they know people evade by changing thier IP alot, so they upgraded.
I’m just not buying across millions of users, there exists a combination of ethical pattern matching (e.g. subs, comment patterns, online timing, etc). to reliably identify a single human behind multiple accounts. We’re not that unique.
It’s 100% IP and cookie based. Each of which can be circumvented without too much issue.
Browser fingerprinting however is not easy to circumvent.
You can generally fool them by just changing one or two variables like GPU acceleration.
Or, change browsers.
There’s a couple of extensions for that. But yeah its usually not easy.
some forks have anti-fingerprinting, but they have ways of detecting things like device components. they are pretty much catching onto anti-detect browsers, and ip switching methods(cost money) that isnt a vpn.
axolotl
I recognize that name from this site.
Is it the same one?
So do I. I used to be quite active in /r/Conspiratard, /r/TopMindsOfReddit and other such subs where we laughed at the silly people of /r/conspiracy etc. axolotl was featured regularly there. I kind of missed what happened to him, did people finally get enough of his antics? Nervous breakdown? Banned? Anyone know?
I think he got permabanned for promoting violence at the January 6th riot. I do remember that he had previously gotten a temporary ban for promoting election denialism, because that was a thing that you would actually get banned for in 2020. he went on to make conspiracies.win, which still has a small number of active users today.
I was banned in one sub for pointing out how heavy-handed the mods were being about pedantic shit. They are basement-dwelling asshats.
Did it happen to be r/Comics?
Made an account here on Lemmy in 2023 after the API stuff.
Then, a year later I got permbanned on reddit for being mean to Nazis, talking shit about Elon Musk, and saying Hans Kristian Graebner (the Neo-Nazi who makes the Stonetoss comics) deserved to have his name leaked on the Internet.
New account was banned a year after that for evasion.
Said fuck it, stopped using reddit and started being active here instead.
2025, was basically ban-apocalypse. definitely around time, i noticed quite alot of people being reported, and ban around eleciton time, so it happened quite alot before nov 5 too.
I don’t really think that Reddit sucks. But it’s not the best option out there for me any more, which is why I’m here instead. I’d rather be using an open-source, distributed system with a variety of clients.
I was one of the people who they actually unbanned because the bot wrongfully banned it. But because I used a second account during the wrongful ban, again cannot underemphasize so wrong that they admitted it was wrong, it perma banned all of my accounts.
I have a similar story. I was banned, then “unbanned” (as in I got a notification apologizing + stating I was unbanned) but then they never actually lifted the ban
Reddit is owned by US American Big Tech; that’s enough reason.
I quit with the API bullshit but I first started realizing Reddit sucked when an admin threatened to ban me after I reported a fascist troll running a bunch of sockpuppets. The troll I guess was friends with a mod who was friends with this admin, I don’t really know what the deal was but the result was they got me in trouble for abusing moderation. I kept reporting the troll and their accounts eventually got nuked by Reddit a few weeks later, I was never banned or contacted by an admin again.
I’ve been on reddit for 13 or 14 years I think, had my own subreddit dedicated to my cats, then they closed the API and I couldn’t use the free and add-free app anymore to manage it.
the cat subs, are just sad posts, its always “our cat died” like 90% of the posts now.
This happened years ago before most of the big reddit controversies popped off and before words like incel and red pill were coined. There used to be a medium sized community called /r/foreveralone. It was mostly a community for people who were romantically alone and provided support and semi-edgy memes about it. Mostly though it was a support group by the time I found it. It was a decent community then full of lonely people who mostly encouraged each other and tried to help each other overcome those mental blocks we all set up that keep us from what we want.
Over time though new users started to migrate into the sub offering a different kind of support. They would claim that women were to blame for their lonely state and their rhetoric became increasingly aggrieved and violent. Around this same time /r/redpill was coming into it’s prime and sucking many users down a very dark path. The /r/foreveralone community fractured and a schism created two groups within the community, those that wanted it to remain mutual support and chuds that wanted more red pilled content. Unfortunately the chuds won.
Despite many efforts my members of the community and mods to combat the problem nothing worked. I know many users also reached out to the reddit admins for help, but they chose to do nothing. After unmasking who knows how many chuds posting for support only to try to manipulate the community I left and moved on with my life. But it wasn’t until months or years later (I can’t remember the exact timeline) that the reddit admins squashed /r/redpill and helped the /r/foreveralone community recover their subreddit, but even now it’s still fairly poisonous.
Like Facebook and X after them, reddit had a choice to keep the community free of knuckle dragging chuds, but chose not to for some vaguely defined, free speech ideal. That’s why reddit sucks.
It’s always bothered me how incel’s are discussed when really, the group they are referencing are often sexually active but just deeply misogynistic. Meanwhile many people who are closer to the ‘forever alone’ crowd deserve genuine sympathy. Being lonely sucks, and being unable to ‘obtain’ a partner is lonely.
Beyond that - some people will just throw out ‘incel’ as a catch all for “took issue with any pro-woman or pro-lgbt statement”.
Yeah, incel today has more angry loner vibes than anything. It was never a really good term though because involuntary celibate is not an accurate way to describe either the modern chuds or the older /r/foreveralone community members. It’s got misogyny baked right in because it externalizes the cause of isolation when in most cases those folks are their own worst enemy when it comes to dating.
The /r/foreveralone community had a somewhat derogatory term to describe it, terminally special. So many of the people who would come to the community looking for help or support would receive pretty excellent and sometimes very personalized advise and do nothing but explain how their specific circumstances meant they couldn’t use dating apps or join a group around a hobby or whatever. They preferred to remain isolated rather than leave their comfort zone and where experts at making excuses.
Those folks are one of the reasons the red pill message was so successful in the community. It didn’t require them to change anything about how they were approaching dating. It’s picky women or alpha males or whatever and never themselves.
This reminds me of something I heard many years ago, “people love to hear good things about their bad habits.” It unfortunately doesn’t surprise me that red pill won out. Those who don’t want to do and self work are prime targets. Those who are overwhelmed by the work but still are willing to do it, can still get sucked in. Humans are fascinating. Even if that fascination isn’t all good.
admins are complicit, they know you were likely fighting against TROLLS/propaganda even, reddit has no interest in dealing with these. currently they are now given AI tools themselves.
only the small niche subs remain pretty quiet, the ones that inundated with posts every few hours.
I wouldn’t call it vaguely defined free speech ideal.
Reddit wants more users. It wants them to look more active. Loud mouth chuds give them that. Infact I feel this is why reddit is pushing algorithms hard. It wants more users, and best way to get more users is to trap more and more of them in echo chambers.
Right wing ideologies were very rare to come by on reddit 2-3 years ago. They were small conservative islands. Today reddit’s right wing communities are growing fast, and are larger and more numerous than they’ve ever been. That’s what algorithmic recommendations allow you to do. Also destroyed the reddit Hivemind, though I have mixed feelings on that one.
I don’t disagree with you, I’d just like to point out my story happened a long time ago. This was before Ellen Pao and Gamergate and most of the reddit controversies younger people remember today. I was in my mid 20’s when I was participating in /r/foreveralone and now I’m in my early 40’s. Back then /u/spez, when he was still almost universally loved, posted about not banning the red pill community and it’s satellites because of free speech which is what ultimately destroyed the forever alone community and allowed the alt-right pipeline to take root.
I was drowning in rage bait engagement bait and just generally bait everywhere. Felt like a fish.
Lemmy feels like the open ocean in comparison. I can choose where to go and what to do. It’s a lot emptier in comparison, but that’s not necessarily worse than hooks everywhere trying to hack your brain.
I used to have an iPad, and watching an entire movie on the Netflix app drained the battery by 2-4%. The Reddit app took 15-20% of the battery over breakfast, so I switched to Apollo. Then, I could get through breakfast with the battery still at, say, 95%. Clearly, the official app did something else in the background; since they didn’t disclose what, it was probably nefarious. One day, Apollo stopped working, and that was that.
Personally I would assume bad design over compute vampirism. But I could be wrong.
Nah, the app is pushed so hard because browsers sandbox the site and only provide minimal context about the user. But an app can request whatever permissions it wants. And the Reddit app wants a lot of invasive permissions. It is 100% a tracking and data collection thing.
Full list of trackers/permissions listed here: https://reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/reports/com.reddit.frontpage/latest/#trackers
The day Apollo died I stopped using Reddit altogether (which was probably a good thing).
I moderated a large sub that participated in the blackout. Our mod team was threatened by the admins into reopening, and that’s when I knew I was done with the platform.
Can you give more details?
They basically told us that if we don’t reopen they’ll simply remove us as moderators of the sub and reopen it themselves.
