Comme c'est excitant!

they banned and shadowbanned so many people, they nu-users to compesate for the loss of engagement.

I don't know how difference france is from the US, but I generally believe people are kind of ignorant and thoughtless. These will pull in people. People click on "Four things that are secretly unhealthy - #3 will SHOCK you" chum all the time.

join, just so they can ban you for calling a Nazi a Nazi.

My favorite reddit ban was when I was making a very obvious joke about how white people suck or something, and some worthless dumbfuck called me racist and I got an immediate permanent ban.

raises hand

Literally in the top 1% of karma users in 2023. Banned in 2024 for.....

checks notes

........posting a comment that my bike was stolen when I was 7.

Reddit claims the ban was done by a human. However I just cannot see a human looking at the post I got banned for, and saying "This guy deserves to get banned".

My best theory, based on the timeline, is that they offered me a presale enter IPO offering before it went public. At the time I was on cancer treatment, and had $0 income, with my two sisters and mom paying for my apartment.

I had no ability to buy an IPO.

3 days after it went public, I still didn't own stock, and was banned. Because I said my bike was stolen 30+ years earlier.

I got banned for saying we should have hanged every part of the Confederate leadership for treason.

They've done it before in the USA. My guess is that they want to push their non-English offerings, which is something they've only focused on recently.

I help friends and family with minor plumbing repairs and they will tell me:

oh I had "x" company come and they did that

" well it's all wrong "

They charged me a lot of money for that!

" why on earth would you have called them"

Because I saw their advertisement on TV. I thought they were good

" nah they're crooks"

Mullvad is good though

use the extension libredirect, one of which gets you to reddit scrapers that aren't reddit.

You can insert ‘old.’ before any Reddit link (old.reddit.com) to bypass that crap

Switching to old Reddit is a still-working loophole for that.

I just redirect to a redlib instance, it works 99% of the time.

These are all valid and important questions that need to be discussed... ;-)

Oh good, I was starting to distrust my French.

These were/are popular post from the r/France subreddit. I'm a bit out of touch with reddit some I don't recognize.

🙏

I could use a nap, cheers friend

I have never noted anyone's username regularly on Reddit. Unless it's because they consistently had terrible comments, then they would stand out as either a troll or an idiot; honestly, it could go either way with many of them.

Lemmy is small enough that I see some of your names daily.

Y'all better stay off my lawn.

Isn't 4chan dead and gone?

It's worse than ever. Once you work your way up to being able to say anything - BAN! It's more of an echo chamber than ever before.

The good gteen texts always end up on other platforms anyway.

reddit recently became hostile to new users, and inactive users(users that suddenly decide to use thier old accounts to comment) they just shadowban most of them now. the only people ive seen that succesful are the ones that are using other methods(not vpn) to hide thier device, fingerprinting, IP adress etc. even this is temporary, since reddit is also catching up to the other methods.

Moved here and haven't looked back.

I do keep a Reddit account that is strictly used for informational/support type stuff (i.e. "help me figure out what type of widget I should buy for this task"). I avoid anything controversial on that account.

The fucking acronyms and in-jokes don't help, either.

The guy that used to mod /r/jailbait? Yup. That guy.

I hate that still some troubleshooting that I need to do is much easier when I look for answers through Reddit...

Because I like pit bulls and deisel VW's. Nobody here likes them enough to post every day ...or even once a month ...or even once every 6 months...maybe once a year

But I'm confident they will one day ! Viva la Pit Bulls !!! Viva La Lemmy!!!

they haven't yet banned all the anti genocide people.

I don't use it for discussion, but for some information/support it is helpful to have a larger community to discuss with. I stay the fuck away from anything that has a hint of controversy though.

It is still a very good place to have information on a variety of topics.

have fun finding a lemmy community on a niche topic thats active

there is almost no topic specific activity here, aside from Linux and unix

Netflix made up their minds the same way before tanking their subscriptions.