Reddit @lemmy.world CheeseToastie @lazysoci.al 1d ago

OOTL... how did it get so bad?

Hey redfugees! I'm a little OOTL... I know reddit has been going downhill for a while, but how has it suddenly nosedived? What triggered it? It's bewildering, and they're losing countless users.

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Elmo got mad at reddit in his tweets for unmoderated "inciting violence" in r/whitepeopletwitter
In my case, I wanted to get away from US American closed source social media controlled by US companies which ultimately are controlled by Trump and his narrative. Am German. We’re mad as hell.
- Sensible. What's made german people so mad?
- Same here. Dutch and don't want to use any american closed source crap anymore. Dutch people are pretty angry of the US right now.
  
  Interesting. What's made Dutch people so mad at him?
“Eat the rich” is specifically cited as a violent and violence encouraging statement, bannable.

Upvotes of such statements will also be given bans.
- And like nobody wants to actually eat the rich, they'd probably taste terrible.
  
  Consider that the rich would do anything rather than become a regular-ass person
- Eat the rich??? Ffs that's absurd. Honest question... are they trying to destroy reddit?
  
  Someone posted their ban feedback around here somewhere, that’s how it read. Maybe we’ll get a link from someone more interested in keeping track of such things than I.
Reddit stakeholders are afraid of Luigi Mangione
- I don't understand why they aren't more afraid of losing all their users... Without any users there's nothing
  
  Synthetic users and bots are juking the stats.
- I honestly think that could be the motivation. There's a risk to THEM, and tbf, they may be motivated by their family as well.
Well there was the shift a couple years ago with Reddit seeking to dramatically increase ad revenue, so they banned the use of third party clients to force users through their monetization racket.

Along with that, they clamped down on the API preventing search engines or other applications from indexing data unless they paid reddit for it, ontop of selling user data to AI companies regardless of what the community thinks of that practice. (afaik, there's no opt-out either)

And now, they've made a pretty big pivot in cracking down on free speach; banning users for so much as liking a comment that contains the word 'Luigi' (even if obviously video game related and nothing to do with politics).
- The whole API issue was really a changing point in how Reddit publicly treated its mods and power users.
  
  Reddit was trying to pull power away from mods through passive decisions, but nothing had ever been done to outright harm the moderation experience until then. You could tell Spez didn't understand that the decision would have such a major impact on the user experience, but didn't seem to care.
  
  After that, you could tell that the relationship of the admins to the users became a lot more contentious.
- I remember how downhill it went with the ad revenue it started to be more and more facebooky which can only be bad. Have they given any official statement on wtf is going on? And can you explain the API stuff I'm not savvy with it.
  
  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Reddit_API_controversy
  
  https://gizmodo.com/reddit-is-cracking-down-on-luigi-mangione-content-2000576229
You have been permanently banned for asking.
- If this was reddit, I’d get a warning for upvoting this comment.
  
  We'd get a temp ban for looking at the post
The users that aren't bots or nazis are leaving.
Spez
Ingot perma account banned for saying "we have to fight back" meaning... Well, obviously figuratively..
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