Never in a million f@cking years.... Shithouse!

They’re hell-bent on removing all human activity from that shithole.

I just got IP banned for accidentally posting using an alt account in a sub I was banned from several years ago- because Reddit removes filters from blocked subs in their own groups. So you can’t really know if you’re violating the rules unless you keep a notepad nearby when cruising the bots on Reddit.

Well said.

No.

I was banned cuz I once asked a witch, being very naive and want to actually know about the propaganda, that do you guys use children blood. The guy whom I asked said no. But somehow mod thought it is antisemitic as the witch was a Jew and then first removed my comment, then banned me from server, then I got temporary ban and that ban turned into permanent ban. Now I tried to regain my account, but they have not listened to my appeal.

My account was recently banned for cussing at the mods of BlackPeopleofReddit. I responded to one of their messages about a post removal with, "fucking racist"...as a sarcastic joke. Reddit says it's an automatic 3-day suspension for using profanity in messages with mods, irrespective of the context.

That sucks!!!

I'm shadowbanned and annoyed because I'm about to lose my 789 day streak for 1000.

At least I can fully commit to Lemmy/piefed

Be evil. Just reply like that to already deleted comments.

Nah.

Can't make me put em back.

The sort of task AI is quite good at, ironically.

All of mine got edited multiple times before deletion. If they want to tear through iterations by all means.

I left a ton of those when I bailed. Fuck them, they don't get to make money off me.

Reddit is now an advertising tool only. A slip land, ruins by orcs, the once lush forests have been usurped for sometime now.

If you really want an alternative you can’t keep supporting the beast.

It still has to be done in the right order. A smaller scale version has been ongoing for a few years with gaming wikis: fandom . com used to be the place to collect and find any information you wanted about a game, having supplanted GameFAQs old-school style (and actually acquiring it while it fell apart for other reasons, it's a whole thing). But fandom has been aggressively enshittifying in a lot of ways so many communities abandoned it, either to discord (boo) or wiki.gg (yay). And in their wake, lots of the fandom sites have been intentionally sabotaged to drive engagement to better places.

But! The alternatives were established first because driving people away when there's no second option makes them do something else entirely and they aren't going to come knocking when you're finally ready for guests.

The deleted comment in this screenshot was 8 years old. What are the odds that comments on the Fediverse will still be around in 8 years, outside the databases of AI training companies of course?

To me, it's about making reddit less usable and valuable to users, so they seek answers outside of reddit.

This is a bit like the chicken and the egg though. "You have to keep your content on reddit because there's no strong alternative" just ensures there will never be an alternative. If you really want an alternative you can't keep supporting the beast.

Deleting only removes your username, that's why you edit, otherwise the post/comment stays up.

If we're talking about making sure people can still find the solution you found to some obscure tech problem, all that matters is that it's indexed and findable on a search engine, not how many comments it has

1. Lemmy is not an actual alternative to reddit. There's fuck-all here unless you like Star Trek, center-left political memes, doomscrolling American politics, or Linux. Sports, gardening, Magic the Gathering, they're all ghost towns. Even the generic gaming community gets like one post per day with ~6 comments (god forbid you want discussion about a specific game). The fediverse does not have the critical mass to support people that are not specifically interested in the fediverse.

2. (opinion) Burning books is never the right answer.

There aren't other noses for most things though, unfortunately. The narrow-interest forum of the late 90s is mostly extinct. Virtually all discussion boards condensed into reddit or Discord, and only one of those is actually searchable.

Why would you want to help a parasite

I don't want to help the parasite, but an alternative has to exist before you can push the public toward it. Burning everything down and telling everyone to build their own houses doesn't actually help anything.

This is the internet, there are other noses. Why would you want to help a parasite when you could push the public toward a non-parasitic nose?

1. We're on an alternative right now, if something is valuable you can repost it somewhere
2. (opinion) It's better that someone can't find an answer than to have them find it on reddit and continuing to give value to its evil overlords.