The gloomy sentiment around Reddit Inc. has failed to dissipate after its shares fell 50% from a February high, with volatile technology stocks under pressure.

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    They’ve banned all of the good people that made up the site. I used to do Secret Santa. For 10 years! And I had mothers thank me for making their kids holidays. And they banned me. Because I made a death joke about how old McConnell was. Dude looks like death walking. Prove me wrong.

    I was a good user. Dark humor isn’t hurting anyone. Reddit will die. Just like every other popular site.

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      I was sign up number 3. I emailed Spez his own source code because he had the error reporting on his Web Server set to “VERBOSE”.

      I was permanently banned for an answer in an AskReddit thread that amounted to “what is true in your line of work that you can’t say”. My answer was that (edit: as I work in a highly female-dominated field of social work 30 women for every man)… non-males are insanely violent and one of the huge lies that is held in the public consciousness is that “men are the violent ones” when the reality is all people are violent, and there’s a tremendous amount of IPV especially in same-sex partnerships. Banned for “advocating violence”.

      Edit oops I edited the wrong comment lol

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        I reported a comment for basically saying that men are the only violent sex, and they temp-banned me for abusing the reporting system. The explanation message (canned, I’m sure) said that abusively reporting people is a form of harassment or bullying, or something like that.

        Eat shit reddit, and fuck spez.

        edit: Based on my experience and what others are saying, I have to wonder, were they trying to burn it down from the inside?

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          I don’t think they are trying to sabotage their own products. It really is that they’re not smart enough to see where is the value is. And this is kind of understandable, right? The underlying software has been copied already. It’s out there. If that company has value it’s only the user base. But that puts management in the strange situation where everything they are doing to make money is making their own product worse. And they kind of know it, right? But they can’t admit it. They can’t think about it clear. Their own mental stability relies on ignoring the obvious truths that they see and read every day.

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          I had the exact same experience. I am a man that suffered tremendous amount of violence at the hands of my female caregivers and partners. I reported a similar hate-based comment against men and I got banned temporarily.

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          I believe I was warned once for that same comment, and banned on another account. I was saying the same thing violence in relationship are overwhelming men in every way. Sure there is done by women

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            Consider conducting some actual research and study, instead of deciding your and biased ideas represent reality.

            The fact is that in terms of frequency non-males are worst. Males more severe physical damage per incident.

            But don’t argue with me here, if you wanted actual knowledge on the subject you’d have it already.

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        Sounds about right. The fact Reddit is killing off its best users is just a sign that Lemmy can bring us all back together.

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          Not to be cynical, but the same human sludge on Reddit is now here. There’s a major problem with the collective consciousness that a new platform won’t solve.

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              They are all concentrated on the tankie and conservative communitiesm

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              DNC started astroturfing heavy around 2015 and kept pushing. It’s been an entire decade of slop on that hellsite

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                Dnc isn’t on Reddit much, which is a separate issue the the GOP have successfully coopted all social media, thats why they are in power

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                  Lmao you’re willfully ignorant or a shill. DNC has been running propaganda for a decade now on Reddit. Shareblue is a thing.

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            Reddit didn’t die because of them though. He died because they got rid of everyone else.

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              I use Boost and the topic keyword blocker works really well. I’ve got a lot of political words blacklisted and it’s made browsing All much more pleasant.

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        Incels are quite overly sensitive when it’s a women talking about violence against women by men, they brigade and try troll people. Askedddit also banned me, for because the sub was asking something about an actor, and I was explaining how a Star Trek actor made the show about herself( Beverly crusher) people don’t like how their holy trek role model was criticized.

        Askreddit is extremely sensitive when it comes to politics, feminism and never toxic masculinity, 12yo boys sexual curiosity

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      I left with my 14 year old account after they banned third party apps. Moderating large communities (1M+) with the official app was impossible, and I was moderating 3 of those, plus a bunch of smaller ones. I did Secret Santa 4 or 5 times (move countries frequently for my job, so it wasn’t always feasible), and still have the Guinness World records certificate somewhere, plus a lot of free merch from the mod appreciation giveaways back when they weren’t a shitcorp. Leaves quite the bad aftertaste.

      Pretty sure that by now I’d have been banned as well, I never held back with dark humor and speaking out against evil corpos. In a way I’m glad I left on my own terms before it all went fully to hell.

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        I used to mod a million plus sub. How on earth could you do it without 3rd party tools? I am very happy here. It’s nice to be able to talk to real people again.

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          Oh we did use third party tools, and there were 5-8 moderators depending on which sub. I just loved the mod queue on reddit sync to just approve/delete reports on the go. Since I’m in Asia I often got them before my US counterparts, so could clean up the queue early on.

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          Now many of the major subs are concentrated to a less than 100 mods , which controls over 500+ subs.

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      I was a 12 year member with nearly a million karma. I was permabannef right after the inauguration, for repeating an anti-HitlerPig opinion I’d repeating numerous times before he was elected.

      I came to Lemmy and found out I wasnt alone, i was part of a bloodbath. I’ve seen posts from many people with 10+ year accounts who were banned. We’re the people who built that site, and made it what it was. Somehow we managed to be active for over a decade without a problem, but suddenly we all became violators in the same month, and need to be banned.

      Now we find out Spaz wants to buy TikTok, AND The MuskRat threatened him. No doubt the threat was that if he had a prayer of being awarded the privilege of buying TikTok, he was going to have to obey, and violate Reddit’s foundational free speech mission. The classic Reddit is dead.

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        He didn’t need musk threatening him. He was already killing Reddit with his whole “we want to float it on the stock market so we’d better get rid of all of the good content” fixation.

        And frankly he was a shit stain even before that, remember how hard it was to get them to ban CP subs?

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        I created throw away and many main acts in case one gets banned, I usually avoid the permansub bans with new acts, until much later. So I’m also hearing that reddit links your accounts with strangers, if they get banned all your accounts get banned (( if you commented on any of the subs that the stranger was on)

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      I contributed to Reddit for 4 years and I got banned supposedly for posting putting down a bull terrier that violently attacked a family member and their was a child in the family,

      I have a suspicion that my negative political comments about what is happening in Government may have been the real reason

      All my friends that were on Reddit have been banned they are all good people with views

      No free speech on Reddit it will gradually die

        • Strawberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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          There’s no money in running a lemmy instance. Donations are unlikely to pay for the costs, much less a living. Also, you can always switch instances, although for this reason it is concerning how big lemmy.world is in comparison to other instances

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      It’s weird how they allowing Sinese to promote himself, he acts like hes weirdly a Veteran, just because he was in the infamous movie, of course he’s a Republican around the same time stewart was supporting vets. I was saying he was virtue signalling so hard.

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      Either you die a hero or lives long enough to become the villain…

      Appears to apply to companies, too