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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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).
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.
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.
They started enforcing a new policy that will warn, or even perma ban you, for simply up voting content they deem as being against their rules. As well as removing anti-1% sentiments like “eat the rich” or even “Luigi;” even in the context of talking about the Nintendo character.
Luigi stomps on turtles, this promoting cruelty to animals. He also promotes drug use through the consumption of mushrooms with performance enhancing effects.
The only reason I can think of as to why Mario isn’t also banned is because the rule was made by the older brother.
I’m gonna keep doing that until they ban my reddit account
In the current climate that won’t take long
Then i guess i won’t stay on reddit for very long
And you will go down in style
I did mention luigi a few days ago… nothing so far but I was expecting something.
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.
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?
Well basically the same things that makes other Europeans mad at the USA. USA has proven to be unreliable in about everything (climate, trade, stability, economics).
Honestly the only positive is that the EU is finally stepping up and getting rid of our dependance on the US.
Yes I get that. I’m British so we’re not in the EU anymore 😢 😭 😢
You’re still with us in spirit.
Sensible. What’s made german people so mad?
Elmo got mad at reddit in his tweets for unmoderated “inciting violence” in r/whitepeopletwitter
The users that aren’t bots or nazis are leaving.
You have been permanently banned for asking.
If this was reddit, I’d get a warning for upvoting this comment.
“Eat the rich” is specifically cited as a violent and violence encouraging statement, bannable.
Upvotes of such statements will also be given bans.
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.
No I mean are the reddit admins trying to destroy it
No, but yes.
Everything Reddit does these days is for the sake of the shareholders, advertisers, and Spez’s whims. They’re not intentionally trying to destroy Reddit the website as much as they’re trying to turn it into algorithmic social media slop that promotes doomscrolling and advertising revenue over community and genuine human interaction.
Throw in a sprinkle of Spez aspiring to be Elon Musk’s left shoe, and you have absurd censorship designed to drive away dissenters and users who don’t conform with Reddit’s target audience.
Ahhhhhh of course…they just want facebook 2. Their behavior shows thar.
