Wtf has happened to reddit?

Reddit is fucking dead. It's like 40% Russian psyops trolls, 25% bots, 25% Nazi trolls, 5% users, and 5% admins looking for shit to ban people for
- Remember back in 2022 when Russia disconnected from the global Internet? Reddit was great that day. The amount of trolls and devisive posts plummeted and discussions were much more civil. That was when I first started thinking about looking for a different place to hang out (I had been a pretty prolific reddit commenter). Then the stuff in spring 2023 happened and I found my way here, leaving Reddit for good. No regrets for sure.
  
  Oh that was a golden day indeed. You were able to have a civil discussion with someone who disagreed with you and both of you had a pretty good time. Not only on Reddit but also on fucking YouTube!
  Shows you how much Russia turnes anything it touches into pure shit.
- Apart from the 5% users, don't the rest all overlap entirely?
  
  Yes, but they make sure they have a separate account for each category, so the math works out.
- actually you can turn that 5% admin, to AI autobanning people, becauses thats been happening since janurary.
  almost all the appeals were AI responses.
- And 100% cunt mods.

I had a 13 year old account I simply stopped using in 2023 when compact.reddit.com was killed and the API changes fees were introduced. Lemmy was "good enough" get to get what I was getting from reddit. I stopped using reddit and haven't posted since.
- I did the same, but kept the account, just never log into it.
  
  I deleted my accounts.
  Burn that fucking bridge baby.

I'd say the most recent major influences were the IPO and the emergence of LLMs.
Reddit becoming a publicly traded company and the preparation to do so certainly initiated a major shift in its priorities.
Ai and large language models make it easier than ever to create shiny, but low quality content.
And the rest is just reddit becoming more mainstream leading to an overall shift towards banal rather than niche topics.
- i said they are following the facebook method, FB is now mostly AI using old accounts pushing right wing propaganda, i only see reddit will do the same eventually. or they try to look like a"both sides" type of site while allowing signicant astroturfing from russian trolls.
- I suspect they have been tweaking the front page algorithms to bury niche posts. Niche subs that I already follow don't seem to have changed, but r/popular and r/all have definitely lost their spark.
  
  pushing r/conservatives, and any sub that talk about politics to the front was pretty obvious of the manipulation. Also the "baiting subs" like glowups, gym is there too.

I got a 3 day site wide ban for saying that without due process, these ICE guys are just racking up hundreds of kidnapping and trafficking charges in a sane world. The ban said I was threatening violence. I'm done with Reddit.
- I figure they have AI chatbots making the decisions and it can’t ~~term~~ tell the difference between talking about violence and advocating for violence
  
  Or underpaid and overworked and possibly non native speaker human contractors
  
  It really seems like it. I had all my posts wiped for the night when I got banned. It bothered me that my posts in r/lockpicking got wiped after I made a post in /r/news. I just said ICE agents should be concerned with the amount of kidnapping and trafficking charges that they could see if sanity takes back over because it's getting into the thousands. Mods said that was violent talk and I was banned. I'll miss r/lockpicking. It was a fun community.
  
  When I got banned for 'promoting violence' they said that the ai had flagged it, but a human had confirmed it. The humans are just as fucking clueless about context.

Most of reddit is now a gross loop of ChatGPT shitting into its own mouth.
Like well obver 50% of the accounts are not real people anymore, moderation is also now handled by AI.
- True but point of OP is that it used to be liberal echo chamber but that has now changed.
  Clearly Elon wants it a different way so you post anything you like as long as it fits Elon's desired narrative.
  
  It didn't start as an echo chamber. Initially it was one of the few places online a progressive minded person could go and feel like they could express their opinions openly. And by "progressive" I mean both left and right leaning ideologies.
  Which, funny enough is now a foreign concept. We call everyone on the left "progressive", even though Biden and Kamala are clearly conservative Democrats. And we call Vance a "conservative" even though he's clearly a progressive Republican.
- there was an article a while back, said 50% were bots anyways, while i was on reddit, it got noticibally quiet when reddit decided to do one of these purges.

They want to be "Corporate Friendly."
Criticize corporations, or Musk and Trump for a week, enjoy your permanent ban.
We'll be here for you.

I got permabanned just for participating in /r/enoughmuskspam. We figured out Musk frequented the sub, and as an active member who mocked him daily, I had a feeling it was coming. I'm fairly sure he flagged me and other users for permabans.
Their excuse was that I said (((Soros))) to a Nazi MAGA claiming Soros was funding all the protests, which wasn't at all true. Why is that a bannable offense? Never seen censorship like that on the net in my life
My suspicion is that it's happening a lot and that they want to turn Reddit red like they did with Twitter. Musk and Reddit's CEO are pals.
- That was a honeypot to ban anyone critical of Musk, and corporations in general.
  I fell for it, too.
  
  You didn't fall for it, you were shown what the site really is and made a good switch to a better website.
- musk monitors reddit , since hes on xitter all the time. he has the time, because hes high on cocaine or adderall to give him that energy.

Billionaires are taking control of any avenue for free speech. Get yourself ready to switch to torr. Won't be long now until it's the last place free of misinfo/disinfo campains.
- Torr?

Reddit got threatened by a billionaire Nazi. Reddit caved to said billionaire Nazi.
- When you make a new account it's asks you for some of your likes. Sports, gaming, memes... Turns out Elon Musk is his own interest as well.

Reddits purpose is to create Nazis. You can post anything and use AI bots to do it as long as you push right wing propaganda.

Enshittification happened, a long time ago.

Got banned for saying that "Israeli people should be upset enough with Netanyahu to have his head on a pike" for "advocating violence". Even non-native English speakers are familiar with this expression which does not literally mean heads on pikes unless you somehow travel back in time to medieval Europe.
I've been on reddit since it's inception and while I didn't go there that often now that Lemmy exists the ban kinda seals the Reddit brand for me.
Another turning point was the April fools mini game this year which was universally hated. This has never happened on Reddit before. I think Reddit is beyond redemption at this point unfortunately and Reddit itself thinks that so they'll get their bags while they can.
- on pics i was able to get some people reported for the ops of those post trying to frame it as a BIDEN only issue(these gaza injuries pics are a biden caused issue) i was reminding them all republicans wouldve supported as well as any D president, which i reported as misinformation . and then i pointed out this was never the issue for the decades of the same violence while benajmain was in power, and suddenly it started popping up as propaganda against biden. remember trump told Netanyahu not to stop the attacks, because it would hurt his chances of winning, dint seen any railing trump for doing that, so it means all those posts were just to attack the dems.
  
  Tbh I'm 80% conviced that Reddit is infiltrated by Israel astroturf and I say that as someone who used to support Israel.
  All these bad actor signs that Israel justifies is actually doing a long term opposite if it can flip supporters like this. Extremely poor leadership of really unmatched levels up until recent US election of Trump imo.

Yep, also told off Nazis. Then, perm banned. I've been on that site for 15 years, moved over to Lemmy. Fuck Reddit.
- I was permabanned twice for speaking favorably of a certain green-capped man.
  
  Don't worry, you can say Luigi Mangione here.
  
  I preferred green mario
- i recieved a temp ban for reporting trolls on r/tech because they said " i reported too many people", which my understanding based on other reports it was going to be permabanned anyways after the temp ban was lifted.

I mean a lot of things happened to Reddit.
The most recent obvious decline was allowing AI moderation. That's when I finally checked out.
- Yup. No description other than ‘you violated the rules’ and you’re supposed to guess which rule. It’s like dating a gaslighting sociopath.
- it was pretty obvious when in feb, everyone was getting the AI ban message left and right, and on all your old accounts too. and then comes the luigi/violence banning, plus musk interference. and now SHADOWBANNINg at random for anything, its just to keep the user numbers low on the site. for normal users, and not spammers(of fans, links) instant ban for some, and then they accidentally commented ina sub where it might have requirements.

Oh good I’m not alone in believing something weird is going on like AI moderation. Random old account I had I wasn’t even using got a notification it was permabanned for violating a rule. No definition of which rule. Tried asking. Just a repeat that I violated a rule with no definition of which rule.
It must be just bots on there now.
- no your not, i noticed it was odd that i wasnt recieving the incident of the ban, like they usually give if you get banned. but its just AI message and autorejection. and then the last thing, other accounts i havnt used years ago is banned too.
  additionally, i had recieved a temp ban prior but it somehow triggered this.
  
  Thanks,
  I think I’m now just super creeped out at the thought of an entire site that is just AI bots now, updooting and responding to each other.
  Or maybe I should be relieved. I was checking some of the stuff over there lately and I’ve just been getting sad and depressed about how stupid people have been getting.
  Although it is Weird that Elon is getting offended by bots tho. Apparently he’s been asking spez to get rid of the mean dems saying bad things about him.

You think it's bad? Go look at "popular" while you're not logged in (no subs / filters). It's shocking how insipid the experience is.
- Going to the new section at night really shows how overridden the site is with bots.
- Just looked. It's basically Trump, Trump, vapid stuff, Trump, vapid stuff, vapid stuff, Trump on repeat

Reddit only wants plain vanilla, perfectly non-offensive content. Nothing controversial, nothing. As to why they've changed, we can kick that idea around all night long, but that's where they're at, what they want.
- right wing content, is hardly vanilla, they have been gearing for that just like FB AND youtube does now. right wing content drives traffic, specifically right wingers to the site, and hate watchers.

Elon whined to the admins, reddit is completely run by fascist bootlickers lmao. You can't even shit talk dusty evangelicals for being the amoral murder rapists they are without getting a site wide ban

It’s starting here too I called out a 5hr old account for being a suspected Russian bot and my comments were removed. I also got mobbed on by a manosphere group in a comment on an article about a book that a woman wrote about being doxed with revenge porn. The toxic Reddit culture is starting to come over.
- I find anything remotely pro women has always got shitty comments from the manosphere. We recently had a spate of shitty male comments on !WomensStuff@lazysoci.al
  
  Thanks for this response. I feel less alone. It’s pretty frustrating to see these manosphere mobs claiming victim status and accusing people of misandry when women speak frankly about their lived experiences. I was hoping that lemmy would be a better space for this kind of thing.

Me, too. 12 year account, 900K+ Karma. I was looking forward to crossing the million mark this year.
At first I was concerned about having fewer people on Lemmy, but for things like Politics, the quality of discourse is far higher than Reddit. Every Reddit post is filled with puns, idiots, trolls, Russian propaganda farmers, etc., all of which are far smaller or non-existent on Lemmy.
I still miss Reddit's active guitar subs, though.
- You need to delete all of your content ASAP because 12 year account can be 100% tied back to you. Everything you said and all of your history data might as well be public on the web with your name right now so you should keep that in mind.
  Its laughably easy to tie accounts to identities these days with machine learning tools and 12 years of data is a lot.
  
  they retroactively banned accounts because of that.
- Loved r/huskers the one here on Lemmy exists but it's pretty dead
- its the astroturfing from the russian trolls

Not to mention the reposts.
The number of old pics and videos that keep reposting is through the roof.
r/AskReddit has dropped in quality. It used to keep me busy and entertained for ages.
The only reason I use Reddit now are for old niche posts that answer specific questions. Other than that, I find my selfing going to lemmy first these days.
- askreddit went to sht when they started allowing people to ask political or entertainment questions, it was obviously getting the users riled up. people on another site said the safe subs were askreddit, but it wasnt because the sub is large and is heavily monitored.

Welcome to the reality! I saw reddit changing in a bad way 2 years ago and came to lemmy.
- It started getting shitty but pretty much when they killed 3rd party apps it just went in freefall.

Left about 3 months ago, has not been missed.

- Just in case you didn't know this, here is a program that let's you mass edit and delete all your comments on Reddit:
  https://redact.dev/services/reddit
  The free version only edits all your comments with random words, but for me was good enough just to delete my main account asap.

Loads of old accounts are now just getting perma banned site wide.
I had an accot that hadn't been used for commenting (just the every now and then looking for something) that got perma banned about a month ago. Reason? None given.
I'm guessing they want to rid the site of users that still remember how great it once was
- Account age was used when factoring the credibility/legitimacy of a user account when humans moderated.
  The AI moderators don't care, and making most non-banned accounts younger makes it harder to verify the legitimacy of the accounts, which is even a good thing if they are trying to flood the site with bots.
  
  this hasnt slowed down mass accounts from created instantly and to spam propaganda, OF accs, or Links to a business. i think what happen is they just upped thier sensitivity of thier spam filters, now its seeing botting everywhere, even normal people. and yes AI cant discriminate between a real person and a botter.
- I remember when reddit used to invite actual interesting celebrities to do AMA's. Things never were quite the same after they fired Victoria.
  
  There was even a time when AMA guests would just do the AMA for fun, or to get in touch with their fans. Not just when they are starring in a new movie or show / have "written" a book or some other financial motivation looming overhead.
  
  Oh good old Victoria.... I wonder what happened to her, I'm sure she landed on her feet.
  
  there is one that still does AMA, but he shills for republicans now, and posts propaganda(because he conveniently started doing this 1-2 months before trumps election as if he was shoring up republican support and this was right after coming out as hollywood republican) about vets/vet injuries, how he "Cares" about them, just because he was in a movie and visited a hospital.(reminiscient of how hilaria baldwin think shes spanish just because she lived in europe for a while)
- I heard you can get banned for how you vote now. No comments needed.
  
  You get bot warnings for "promoting violence" or some shit. They're basically making "thought-crimes" a thing now.
- .... How do you create an account without realizing?

I'm just there for the porn, these days. Any sort of meaningful interaction with people happens elsewhere.
- Uh... no offense, but why go to Reddit for porn when there's PornHub, Xvideos, and Jizzle?
  
  I have specific interests.

I canceled my reddit premium account a few months ago. I was shocked at how numerous and annoying the ads are.
- People paid for premium??
- You might be the first guy I've heard who paid for premium
- People use the internet without ad blockers??

Capitalistic facism aka enshittiffication.

I just got banned for saying that if RFK doesn't believe in germ theory we should dust him with anthrax and see what he says, lol.

Shitty moderation, biased mods, oh well

I got an account ban for stating how terrorists deserve to die, which I guess is a controversial opinion now. Bunch of pussies in charge of the place now.

That's the cute part about enforcing civility rules...
They are only cute when they do it to "Nazis"....
But when "Nazi" do it to you.... It is fascism
- Yes, when fascists do it, it is in fact fascism. If you in turn ban fascists, it's not "cute", it's wimpy. My grandfather killed fascists for the government during a thing called World War II which you can google more information about.
  Motherfuck fascists. They should be on their knees every night thanking their maker that it's not still open season on them like it ought to be if they hadn't succeeded in taking over.
  
  This is not WW2. This time the fascists are your little brother, your parents, your children... Your fucking government. You are going to need to find a better way than killing people, or you're not going to reach anything that can be meaningfully considered victory.
  I hope you do. Or the rest of us will have to do to you what your grandpa did.

Its been downhill for a while but seems to have picked up speed in the last 6 months or do. Hmm. Wonder why that is.

Lemmy is absolutely not beating the political tribalism allegations, holy.
Got banned for telling a Nazi off.
I hate to be that guy, but when you say "Nazi," are you referring to a literal 1940s National Socialist German Workers Party 3rd/4th Reich "Aryan Race is superior and Jews are evil" Nazi (aka a real actual Nazi), or someone with a different political/social opinion/ideology from you (ie, a Republican/Democrat/whatever is opposite of your political/social ideology)?
I was on Reddit for like 13 years and never got banned for less than positive interactions with people that said they supported real, actual Nazis.
- They might mean people doing Nazi salutes in 2025.
- You conveniently left out the mostly likely case of them being Neo-Nazis which have been around since post-WWII.
  
  I mean, was not when I said "4th Reich" including Neo-Nazis? I thought that is what I included.
  Just to be clear, I do not support Nazis or Neo-Nazis. But American Democrats and Republicans (or any other ideology that may be different from my own) are not Nazis or Neo-Nazis. I don't agree with either side of American politics, but that does not make me qualify them as Nazis.
  IMO, calling anyone that is not an actual, real Nazi, such as an American Democrat or Republican (or whoever else thinks opposite from me), a "Nazi" or even "Neo-Nazi," de-values the real suffering that people who are actual Holocaust victims had to deal with. Quite frankly, is insulting to me that anyone would ever attempt to equate the two. Its like saying getting hit by a fly swatter and a train will be the same level of pain and suffering.
  I might think someone who thinks opposite of me is stupid, but it is neither illegal or against any rules to be stupid (sadly). But I certainly would not call them a Nazi and de-value the suffering Holocaust victims had to go through.
- No.
  The names change, but the ideology is the same. "Nazi" is just what they called themselves then. Now they're "MAGA Republicans." The ideology is virtually identical.
  The ideology being blame "The Other" for your woes, when the Aristos are the ones fucking you.
  "The Other" now being Latino migrants and Transsexuals.
  
  Hell, trans people were one of the original nazis' first victims.
- Given how Reddit bans are currently being dealt out, it's likely a "Aryan Race is superior and Jews are evil" Republican.
  
  Well, Spez stated in an interview if society collapsed, he would be one of the ones in charge, due to his superiority.
  "Steve Huffman, cofounder and CEO of Reddit, is confident he can emerge as a winner after the collapse of the social order. As he told Osnos, “I also have this somewhat egotistical view that I’m a pretty good leader. I will probably be in charge, or at least not a slave, when push comes to shove.” This seems at the very least debatable—perhaps even wishful thinking."
  https://www.thenation.com/article/society/billionaire-preppers-strangelove-sbf/
  There was an interview where a tech reporter sat in on a meeting between Techbroligarchs, and they were literally discussing how to keep their security and staff loyal. The subject of "Shock Collars" was seriously discussed.
  https://naturalblaze.com/2022/09/ultra-wealthy-preppers-ponder-shock-collars-to-keep-shtf-security-personnel-in-line.html
  Good luck with that when the your Security takes your family hostage, Genius.
  These guys are that delusional.
  They are terrified. They should be. We should make them more afraid.
  
  on another forum(not lemmy) they said reddit has recently enhanced thier detection of people ban evading using paid methods, which uses things to hide thier browser ID, IP,,,etc. its getting worst actually. thier also doing bulk bans, if a stranger gets banned anyone that is similar to that acct is also shadowbanned(allegedly thats what other banned users are reporting)
- Found the Nazi
  
  Yes, of course. Because only a Nazi would be concerned with trying to be respectful of victims of the awful, inhumane treatment they had to endure under the rule of one of the worst, if not the worst, governments of all time. Thank you. I should have realized this sooner.
- NSDAP, of course. Their moronic administrative decision of having redundant public institutions compete with each other is simply nonsense.
  
  From the Führer perspective it makes perfect sense.
  What do you do when you are a totalitarian ruler afraid of ambitious upstarts? You give them administrative responsibility, and then subtly pit them against each other, making them tear each other down while competing for your favor. And if push comes to shove you use the conflicting jurisdictions to accuse whoever comes out on top of abuse of power.