Reddit says the vast majority of users will not be affected Is that because the vast majority of users are bots? π€
this post was submitted on 05 Mar 2025
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I remember Reddit. I used to like it there.
Reddit is a piece of shit.
I'm glad that I don't use Reddit and have no intention on doing so. I remember there was a very talented artist who was wrongfully accused of using AI and banned on the art subreddit. That artist got banned even though receipts were shown to the mods proving the art was not AI, and I guess with this policy, I'd be at risk of being banned from Reddit altogether because I for sure would've upvoted the art if I did have a Reddit account, it was amazing.
fuck reddit
you know it's bad when ohanian and rose have gotten together to make a new digg
F*ck those Reddit guys. Why is anyone still at that corporate swamp ?
Social media should never be corporate, ever. Fuck reddit, fuck Meta, fuck LinkedIn, and all the rest.
Except Tom from Myspace, he's cool.
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It's so awesome seeing all these new people here bailing from reddit. Welcome!
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Is this after it is banned or before it is banned? Either way, seems ridiculous
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I barely used Reddit - good riddance, this is what spurred me to sign up here. The right wing infestation of social media is nasty.
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Nobody elected the mods or the admins. And the management has shown itself to be, at least, MAGA-adjacent.
Reddit really likes it's exit waves
This is actually what got me to swap as it reminded me some content will be banned, and so the social media I've had for over a decade and thought was going to be the only classic site to retain freedom of speech and expression had proven itself that they will not be afraid to start taking baby steps towards controlling and censoring media. And in the contents section of this post was a person spreading the news of this alternative. So here I am.
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Finally made the permanent switch over to Lemmy. I left a link in the Reddit Safety post so anyone else could convert easily.
Itβs an absurd overreach to say the least; good riddance to the corpo-bot platform.
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Yeah, I just moved over. Its a shame but things are going to get crazy online.
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I'm gonna buy a Luigi board to ask the guidance of Aaron Schwartz because I'm sure he is dying to get revenge
I got shadowbanned after finally actively posting... On r/BuyFromEU... idk man
Shadowbanning in Europe is very hard to pull off without crossing DSA and GDPR rules, which require transparency and informing of the user. Specifically DSA Article 17.
Here's a Dutch case regarding it: https://dsa-observatory.eu/2024/08/06/the-dsas-first-shadow-banning-case/
I'm posting this because if you are European, you should be informed of any shadowban, which makes it a normal ban by definition. If you had to investigate and found out you are shadowbanned, your rights have been violated. I think the best way to get something going is by using a certified out-of-court dispute settlement body, although there's probably a lot of other ways. And if you don't want to return to Reddit anymore, it might be fun to throw some legal shit at their shit platform on your way out.
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I suddenly have an urge to upvote banned content. Talk about being insecure. That post was soon followed up by another of the "we investigated ourselves and found we did nothing wrong" sort.
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