Bout time really. I felt like a frog in the slowly boiling water over there. They had plenty of opportunities over the years to improve things, and now this is where it’s at…
It is why I am here, the straw that broke the camels back. So at my wits end with it. From killing third party apps, forced ads jammed inbetween every post/comment, declining communities, autobans on nonsense, a UI that forces misclicks into awards instead of upvoting, and this paywall is only a signal of worse to come as they monetize content that is not even their own!
I am here because i got perma banned in such a short time for being pro ukraine. Nothing happened for 7 years same behaviour and phrasing of comments. Then suddenly openly posting pro ukraine and BOOM 3 Days then 7 days then perma.
It's crazy that you can get banned for simply writing some pro-Ukraine comments, but it takes Reddit weeks, months, or years to suspend/ban people who send threats and literal predators. Today I was made aware of a subreddit called "r/Grownkids". The name is a reference to, I assume, teenagers under the age of 18, and the posts are filled with people sharing telegrams and other ways to communicate and "feed" each other -- presumably sending/sharing CP, given the name of the subreddit and the suspiciously vague nature of all of the posts wanting to take communications off-platform to fishy platforms like Telegram instead. This subreddit has over 3,000 subscribers. I reported a few of the posts. Reddit's bot immediately got back to me to tell me they were already reported, but they had determined that no rules were broken.
As of posting, this subreddit is still up and likely won't be gone for weeks now.
Fortunately, they were able to permanently ban you very quickly for supporting Ukraine, clearly the real problem on Reddit.
patreon accts, how some youtubes peddled thier patreons, and found out theres very little difference between the 2. might be different for a STEM channel.
Since Reddit is only a platform and the users provide the content (well mostly bots and reposts now), does that mean Reddit will pay users for their content? Personally, I wouldn’t pay one cent to read posts.
probably thats why reddit has banned OF accs en masse recently, they couldnt get money from thier OF promotions. im betting with the paid system, they will allow some form of approved botting for those channels in the form advertisements.
OF creators have to go through a rigorous process to verify themselves. I can't imagine reddit doing anything close to that, but I might be wrong. If not, it will be a playground for scammers and stolen content.
the addicted powermods will fall in line, i bet and hide some of thier larger subs behind a paywall as premium content. i see the political subs doing this r./politics, r/news, r/conservatives these only 3 i know are the top subs especially since they are spammed on the front page.