the entire internet taken over by bots since last two years. gen-z still part of human genome but no different than robots in conversational level.
It does feel like a large shift took place about 2-5 years ago.
Has anyone else noticed Reddit being taken over by shills/bot/trolls
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#52> last year I dunno, a bit before that my only account of 10+ years got sitewide shadowbanned without warning or explanation, with everything I ever wrote (and all replies to it) vanishing from public view. I used their appeal page, got a message saying it was an error and my appeal was approved ... and then it stayed broken and and appeals won't work because it says the account is normal . I resurrected an ancient c…
I briefly talked to Huffman (u/spez) about this during ModWorld and followed up with him later. Many of us made it clear that the appeal process is essentially a black hole. Send me an email (on my profile) and I will ping you if I get any further info from him.
So if you know someone you can get out of shit. We're in a privilege-based society.
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#53https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Internet_theory
how does reddit's stock price continue to go up even though it is a textbook example of dead internet theory?
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#54Earlier quoted context omitted.
I briefly talked to Huffman (u/spez) about this during ModWorld and followed up with him later. Many of us made it clear that the appeal process is essentially a black hole. Send me an email (on my profile) and I will ping you if I get any further info from him.
So if you know someone you can get out of shit. We're in a privilege-based society.
Well, that's usually the case with everything, sadly. The only way I know how to get Meta accounts back is generally to pay an employee off to put a ticket in.
I don't have a banned account with Reddit (fortunately), but I know those who have had bad experiences, so I thought it was worth bringing up.
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#55The last couple times I tried to make an account, it was instantly hellbanned. Guess they prefer the bots. So I come here and go on Mastodon for ocean-pissing
It's probably your IP? Try a VPN is my only suggestion.
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#56I tried posting on Reddit a couple of times when I had new blog posts but found my posts were immediately deleted because I didn’t have post history on the subreddits. Haven’t used Reddit since!
It's getting really hard to post anywhere on Reddit with a new (low karma) account because so many subreddits have installed karma gating to stop low karma bots doing exactly what OP is talking about.
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#57I was on Digg, and I switched to Reddit prior to the Digg exodus. So it's been a while, at least 15 years that I've been there. I think the quality of discussion on these sites has definitely gotten worse, but it's always been pretty bad. Digg people would post absolutely idiotic shit, even by today's standards. The thing that sticks out to me is something that I don't even think is appropriate to mention here, but I…
I prefer Reddit over Discord because of the archival aspect of Reddit. It's near impossible to find anything in search on Discord.
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#58Many large sub reddits are insufferable at this point but I still see great value in smaller niche topics.
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#59Yes, about a decade ago. Why do you ask?
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#60https://x.com/reddit_lies/status/1870220129255981364?s=46 You see the themes everywhere. Similarly worded comments and posts made at the same time and upvoted in order to manipulate thoughts and emotions.
Weird consensus for new movie trailers is so bizarre.