i'm surprised I quit reddit cold turkey and never looked back, i was fairly addicted to that place. reddit was getting bad before 2023, when i left, but at that point was getting clear that wasn't getting any better

The Nintendo community here is no better. I got banned for the same reason here on Lemmy.

Fuck Nintendo.

[…] please delete all of your participation in the subreddit in question (regardless of if it is positive or negative) […]

So it’s guilt by association.

This particular example isn't specifically a reddit problem; it's a power tripping moderator problem. A problem that has existed long before Reddit, and will likely always exist on all forms of social media. Even Lemmy. Hell, we have a couple communities specifically to point out instances of admin/mod power tripping.

Literally r/BannedFromPyonyang behavior

Ive been on it for over 15 years now and in most ways its gotten worse. For one thing there are FAR more bots that are posting and commenting. Quite a few times Im sure replies have been from bots looking for more "engagement" as thats reddits bread and butter. The ads are getting more prolific, with some "hey what do you guys think about x product" becoming more common. The moderation in some areas has gone a bit bananas. I used Redact to erase my comments in all forums and got permabanned in one for doing so because Redact posts a self link. No warning, just a ban. The only thing thats improved is that a lot of trolling a-holes have also been banned so there are less outright vitriol than there used to be. And some of the worst subs are gone. But its not going in a good direction overall.

which requires me to use revanced reddit now

Actually it doesn't require you to do shit. You can just not use Reddit.

This also exists on Lemmy

Nintendo fandom is feeling super defensive rn

They are arbitrarily nuking peops to replace with bots. My wife got banned for laughing at a ratty pic near a whole wheat wrap and saying yum. Reddit said it was inciting violence. 2 days ago there was an actual picture of a rat in a wrap and no one was nuked. I also was nuked a month or so ago.

its called crossbanning, if the mods of a sub feels like another sub is too controversial they will premetively ban you, now with the new reddit filters, your at risk of getting sitewide banned.

famous one is participating j roegan sub, and you get banned from multiple subs, but j rogegan sub is only criticizing him, not fetishsizing his gop support.

I used to be big contributor on reddit and it's has been completely taken over by power users who are just shilling. Many subreddit mods are actually in bed with businesses and take straight up bribes or have their own conflicting interests.

It's been a thing for years, way before api shitshow

If you want to avoid censorship you picked the wrong lemmy instance to join lol

Now if you have an alt and you accidentally comment there without knowing you got banned on another account, you get instantly permabanned across all accounts, like they know you're banned so they'll ban you for upvoting/downvoting content from that sub or posting a comment, yet will still show you that subs content with no warning.

I created a new account to post in my regional swinger subreddit and it immediately got deleted by a power hungry mod. He said my post was low effort at the same time as there was a literal dick pic with the text "hit me up" on the subreddit's front page. I tried to post again with a little more detail but my post never showed up so I messaged the mods directly. They responded a few days later that they had approved my post. Thanks for nothing reddit and reddit mods.

So they have a bot check to see if you've posted in a sub they don't like, which then auto-bans you if it finds you there.

The thought police are unpaid volunteers using bots now, I guess.

Subreddits have banned people for activities that users do in other subreddits since long before the API changes. Reddit was bad, long before the API changes. The writing was on the wall when they first changed how votes were displayed, its what started the mass trend up karma farming. There used to be a lot of novelty accounts going around, the small user base kept things grounded and on topic. Then users like gallowboob took over, flooded the site with repost after repost, farming karma, other users began doing the same and now its nothing more than karma hell.

Comment threads are rarely helpful, usually full of trolling, or pun threads, or jokes, or other useless unhelpful crap.

Once a community, any community, becames large enough, the quality of the output drops. If you have 10000 users in a sub/community, and only a couple hundred that actually like the topic, the trolls and the off topic karma whores will take over. Low effort, low skill, low floor, low ceiling. Enshitification isn't just a word, and it didn't just happen over night. It's been happening for a while. The internet will never be as good as it used to be, sure we can do more, watch more, send more, download more, play more, etc. But the smaller close-knit communities that helped cause the internet to thrive in the first place are never coming back.

Enshitification and dead internet theory have made sure of that.

Now the latest saga involves subreddits now banning you for participating in other subreddit they think are bad.

This isn't new, and a significant reason that I segmented my alts was so that I didn't comment in "opposing" subs.

This is just an extension of the political ban waves that became huge in 2020 / 2021.

Welcome

Last couple of years? You mean in the last decade.

To be fair, the mass majority of things have gotten worse.

That's not a legit reason to ban someone.

I quoted "a banned comment" with quotation marks and asked if it was the reason that Redditor was banned.

Next thing I knew, I was banned.

That's stupid. I am done with Reddit

It's the new 4chan. lmao

Yo dawg I heard you like gatekeeping and purity tests, so I got the algorithm here to Pimp Ur App!

TBF that’s happened here, too. However, it isn’t institutionalized like reddit is doing.

Reddit is like all news sites these days, you simply can’t even quote the people discussed in the thread and not get banned. Reddit has made a choice to follow the current administrations guidelines on what should be banned. And the millions of users make jokes and stay there. They also think they are making a difference there.

I’ll check it if there is some news I want to know more about, but I’ve pretty much given up Reddit and on all social media. I cary a book with me and just read if I have a few minutes. I may be less connected and informed but I feel happier.

Of course here I am complaining about one place on another.

Equally ridiculous as the holy war some idiots are leading against the TanKieZ