Once you have shareholders, users don't matter anymore, you serve them instead.
this post was submitted on 06 Mar 2025
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They don’t even serve shareholders, they serve the money they will give them if profits increase short-term.
I was permanently banned from reddit recently. Reason? There was a moron in a game sub who kept saying that I am dumb and my stats must be shit. I shared my stat and commented, “It must be tough to think and breathe at the same time with just one brain cell.” Boom. Banned for violating some policy. The moron who was being toxic is still active and pissing other people off. What’s more funny is that they even rejected my appeal.
I was banned for saying fascists need to be hung, appeal rejected. While you got that r/conservative sub and others like it being well, fascist and calling for Liberals demise.
Seems to me Reddit is a OK with hate speech as long as you hate the right kind.
It's just like Twitter. Now that Trump is back in the white house, tech companies can get away with whatever boosts profits, even if it means being a toxic cesspool of conservative hate speech (it's ok because the president does it amirite)
Fuck reddit. My ban is a badge of honor for not being a fucking snowflake.
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The beatings will continue until morale improves.
You’ll eat your new reddit and train any AI models that we decide to feed your data to and you’ll enjoy it. Reddits clients are probably passed that all their models end up turning into incels.
Can't have anyone taking about the abuses going on, it makes Glorious Leader look bad.
As always, fuck reddit.
Define 'violent.'
Does activism count as 'political violence' does posting things that upset people count as 'emotional violence'?
What about being part of a minority? 'ethnic violence!' How about someone that's trans, Gay, or otherwise part of the rainbow? 'Sexual violence!'
I said something like "billionaires should remember that the alternative is guillotines", just a bit of history, and an admin deleted my comment and gave me a warning.
I ate a three day ban for talking about the morality of killing Hitler if you had the chance. In an animorphs sub, because that happened in one of the books.
'It's Hitler. He Dies.'
- Tobias.
I got banned from r/politics in 2019 by replying to
We should treat Trump exactly how he treats immigrants.
with
What do you mean, shoot him?
Appeal wasn't ignored. Instead, it was mocked.
So yeah I'm going to get banned. But not before I poison their AI data pool as much as I can.
They no longer need users, they are just training their AI
You can't expect Reddit moderators to have the bravery of a hawk
In fairness. Most Hawks don't have the bravery birdboy had.
If he only had a hawk-sized watch, we wouldn't have this problem
Define ‘violent.’
No. You will simply receive a warning if we don't like your activity on the site.
Really, what are you doing interacting with this website to begin with? Stop posting. Stop commenting. Stop voting.
Just. Consume. The. Content.
We need your eyeballs for the ads. Everything else is driving up our costs.
Violent is what people in power want to oppress. Right to abortion ? VIOLENT! DEI? VIOLENT! Workers rights? VIOLENT !
There are still human users over on reddit? This must change. More punishment on reddit please!
Delusional. There's like 100 users on Lemmy. Reddit has grown its userbase this year.
I think it's a joke about dead internet theory, rather than userbase size
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Internet_theory
The joke comes from an increase in bot use on Reddit, and the subsequent false positive / false negatives in trying to figure out which ones are bots
Lemmy has that problem too, but it's much smaller in scope. Mostly because there's less of a reason to try and control the narrative on this smaller platform, but also because the goals are different. Lemmy instances get no benefit from a bunch of fake engagement, and public upvotes makes it easier to catch manipulation
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Guys! This is how we could attract more users for the Fediverse! We could......UPVOTE VIOLENT CONTENT!!!
....ya know what? It sounded more epic, and made more sense in my head. Saying it out loud it just sounds like something a nutjob would yell out randomly in an Arbys in Iowa one quiet Tuesday.
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If you are still on Reddit, that is pathetic. The API pricing was the reason to leave.
Funny enough, I just made this account after getting banned from reddit for reporting violent content. Apparently it constituted "abuse of the report button", go figure.
I got banned for telling a mod “spank spank spank. Thats the sound I make as I spank you. Yes yes yes. Thats the sound you make as I spank you.” And I don’t regret it
I wouldn’t regret that either.
The amount of censorship taking place on that platform every day lately is kind of staggering.
They are trying so hard to stop the civil war they are creating.
Just one side
The Digg alternative was fine with td
What if i think «guillotine » is the most beautiful word of 2025? I know some would argue Luigi should be first here, but i stand by my conviction.
fucking normienet. why not punish users for overthrowing democracy and spreading misinformation , being bigoted and everything else that got us in this mess?
Because that generates 🌟ad revenue🌟 😍😍
Users are concerned that this moderation tactic could be abused or just improperly implemented.
This is the key bit. It's good to try and make safer online spaces. But Reddit's automated moderation has been bad for a while, and this might get more users caught up in false positives
I've seen comments tagged as abusive regardless of the context:
- someone quoting a news article
- someone making a hyperbolic joke (especially in gen-Z subs)
- actual abuse
For well moderated subs, the vast majority of those reports became false positives over time. For the mod queue, this didn't affect the end user since mods can dismiss the false positives. But automated 'scores' won't account for that.
We're going to see even more annoying algospeak like "unalive", only it's going to be in news quotes as well
Reddit ... punish users...
Newest news!
In theory that doesn't sound so bad, but in practice, what are they actually labeling as violent and does some violence get a pass?
There have definitely been inconsistencies in the past where certain types of violent rhetoric gets a pass but other content that even comes close gets axed no question.
Hegemonic violence, state violence, capitalist violence...
These will continue to not be acknowledged as violence.
Shit site full of mentally handicapped pedos is shit, who’d have guessed?
I can't find it anymore but they had the same experiment around 2015 I guess. If you upvoted too many trolls or far-right people, you could be punished for this. The idea is not new.
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