reddit closed their garden, and kicked everyone out who couldnt show papers. thats about all we need to understand to move on and not let it happen again.
the intricacies of a failed system are sometimes pointless. we dont need to understand every battle of the civil war to know that it boiled down to humans considering other humans lower life forms.
not that there arent crazy civil war fanboyz out there doin exactly that, but it seems like a lot of wasted energy to me.
energy = caring
why should we care about reddit again?
Maybe you were banned for something else you don't realize?
focus on privacy
You answered your question in your first sentence
Not saing we should care. Just tryna understand what happened
And you can talk about Luigi without getting banned!
I just got re perma banned and now I look at my phone 1/4 of the time
Got banned as well. At least this place isn’t full of MAGA sonsabitches!
currently its not affecting Old reddit right now on mobile or desktop. by new reddit they are forcing it on the browser.
I don't see it at work though my coworkers do. I see it at home though. Definitely slowly rolling it out
seems they are rolling it out slowly enough. i havnt seen this on the desktop(i have ublock on with the reccommended filter for reddit). i think will roll out the login popup, forced login globally soon enough, they are taking thier time to try to bypass adblockers which im guessing.
looks like it wasnt, he overshot his banning goals, which hurt the ability of AI to scrape the site, when there isnt user generatd content, they run into bot/AI generated content, its just slop on slop.
actually 2 barriers, reddits site wide filters can just ban even if you havnt done anything on a sub yet. and then the mods also upped thier filtering too. with all those banned, its mostly bots that are left running the site, plus all the AI slop thats being posted.
apparently they banned too much last year, as i suspected before. which leads to less user=less AI scraping the site. and what is most encountered on reddit is mostly AI slop
yes, i think thats what drove alot of users away, and became lurkers, now they are trying to "claw" back some users so they can mine them more for Ai scraping, while not easing thier filters(yet).
the purges include multi-account bans.
Reddit is now filled with bots and moderators with limited critical thinking skill. They can ban anyone out of misunderstood, sensitivity or opinion disagreement.
The sanity is much better here. Good to see you.
They are also ip banning now, so if they catch your old IP or your VPN you'll get banned automatically.
I agree completely
Lol I love it when shit blows up in his face
In for one am happy with his actions, other wise Lemmy, Piefed etal would not exist, similarly Mastodon and Twatter (my journey here was Reddit --> Mastodon --> Lemmy years ago.
Welcome, fellow new Fediversian! 🐣
they overbanned im guessing which eliminated accounts, multiple accounts. so people are too paranoid to login and onl lurk now.
its likely actually what pushed to force logins now. banned a large portion of the user base, and that base is only lurking now. with that loss of datamining for google/AI, im guessing whatever scraped currently on reddit is mostly AI generated posts/comments, and reddit desperate to bring back actual users into the fold so they started and will force logins , so that user content can be sold to google again. conveniently google forced limiting accounts per device a few months ago.
this is the same time they are forcing logins/app usage. i see them behaivng like FB, instagram and tiktok now in terms of viewing content.