Reddit seems to have introduced sitewide AI moderation bots that are sweeping up users and outright banning them, without warning or explanation, for crimes like including links in their posts. This has started to hit some pretty well-known artists in r/comics.
It’s inconsistent and unpredictable - which makes it worse, since you don’t know what the rules are. As companies like Reddit give up more and more control to unaccountable machines, this kind of thing is getting more common.
Reddit has always had kind of a strange relationship with contributors and what is often called “self-promotion”. On one hand, it wants Content… But it can’t seem to decide where it wants the content to come from.
It’s nice that we’ve got alternative spaces like this.
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it’s not just AI Mod’s it’s Human mods. Especially when you have one group of PRO OS users in a sub, they can flame a OS but if you try and tell them of there crappy os they ban you
My account on Reddit got banned from the r/r4r community for no reason as I was posting to find friends and I had a random Reddit mod mail DM saying I was banned I didn’t even do anything and I even followed the rules I got so fed up that I decided to try places like this site and so far this place is amazing
Got a three day ban by the automod, just because I referenced a joke Russel Howard made on taskmaster, where he (and so I) used the words “yellow peril”.
So just mentioning those words is apparently racist…
I got banned for saying “what’s this bitch’s address, I’m going to drive over there and kick her in the cunt”. Regarding Johanna Harrer, a nazi doctor who wrote books about abusing babies to make them compliant. She’s been dead for 38 years but I’m banned for threatening violence and trying to doxx her and using the c-word. I’m not going back.
I mod a very very niche emotional support forum, as a community service. It’s been absolutely blasted with spam since they went to AI moderation. The whole site is structured and run by volunteers. I don’t see them coming back from this.
oh my god I missed it on my first scroll, I can’t believe you’ve done this
I’ve posted this before, but I’ve got banned twice for inciting violence on posts that there not inciting violence at all. In both cases, I was banned when my browser refreshed to the posted screen. Instant ban. No human saw my post. So I deleted my account. Seems like they feel that they are too big to fail and are just trying to clean up its userbase before it goes public.
Yup. Same. The first one I had actually indicated I was legitimately worried that the situation would lead to violence. Instead it flagged me as advocating for violence. The exact opposite of what I’d said.
I was banned for blaming the victim when I said Israel should stop genocide. Don’t know how they made that thought process.
Seems like they feel that they are too big to fail and are just trying to clean up its userbase before it goes public.
that is thier end goal, except it kinda backfired a little now AI is so pervasive and theres very little interaction on that site.
There are still -people- on reddit?
Reddit can entirely go fuck itself.
that seems to be their priority…
I was banned for comparing israel to the nazis even though the whole fucking world agrees.
Reddit is an open-air digital sewer with dead rats floating in it.
Reddit’s the worst. Hopefully this is exactly the sort of pitfall that Lemmy won’t fail at.
What’s a Reddit?
well it’s not quite a ready, and not quite a ditty, but man!
so to answer your question i don’t know
A Ponzi scheme
So, honest question, if creators want to ditch Reddit, where do they go besides here? Fediverse ain’t that big yet.
For comic artists, there already seems to be a decent and growing community here. I’m a musician. There is (used to be?) a vibrant community on Reddit for songwriters, home recording enthusiasts, amateur producers…and it was a good place to network. I won’t go back to Reddit for any reason, so where do I go? Those communities here don’t have enough users to be active. I’ve tried.
I’m sharing my stuff wherever I think I can find an audience… Reddit will be included until it becomes untenable. (I exclude Xitter from that because I don’t like Nazis.)
Don’t think on a where to go permanently basis. Just go where your target people are, forget about how a specific platform gamifies their algorithm. Subscribers and followers, upvotes don’t matter in the slightest anyway. Make sure, instead, to always refer people to a place where they can engage directly with you. Either listening to your music, buying it, buying merch, or getting some interaction. But don’t put much stock on platforms, it’s there for the corpos, not for you.
In short: just make another reddit account, because this is where most of your readers/viewers are.
Unfortunately, yes. Each person has to establish their own ethical framework for what they consider proper or not. But there’s no two ways about it. You either show up on the place where people gather, or no one will know about your thing. A good way, for example, is to make it clear that the main channel is the fediverse, mastodon or whatever. Like I said, have a hub somewhere everyone can arrive to and know immediately where to find your stuff. There are degrees of interaction, you don’t have to tie your entire private life and existence to one account in one platform, but you don’t build a community sitting alone in your own bedroom, no matter how comfy and ethically safe it is. You have to go outside and meet people where they are.
Hm… You know, dustyData, that really explains why so many projects now have a Discord server as their primary channel.
With device fingerprinting that’s getting harder to do.
Scott used to put comics up on his site VGcats. XKCD still does this. You can just make your own site.
This comic is better than any comic you ever see in r/comics
Pizza-whatever always makes the front page with some shit worse than Garfield
Frame 1: “I’m a strong independant woman!”
Frame 2: She throws up
Frame 3: She wipes her mouth
Frame 4: Sorry, I though about Trump
Reddit: OMG THIS IS THE GREATEST THING I’VE EVER SEEN EVER OMG HAHAHAHAHAH SO FUNNY HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
That’s why every day, I look up a random reddit admin or employee and masturbate to them. I am doing my part to bring change to this world. If more people followed this example, we’d have more change in the world as the Earth turns where it stands, unless you have a long enough lever to pull it.
Based af, bri you deserve a hot dog named after you
Dude I’m the number four streamer on rawdogbareback.gic, so you know every dollar donate to my streamering made it back to real unfortunate children, woman, and animal in the wild as all are gods children.
