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This astroturfing issue on Reddit is still relevant in 2025!

Just an observation but I feel within the past year, that sub is dominated by links from the daily beast.

I know Reddit is kinda trash at this point but I still occasionally browse but I absolutely cannot stand that rag of a media website. Their headlines are attention grabbing clickbait IMO.

Just curious if anyone else has noticed. I haven’t crunched any numbers or anything because I don’t really even give that much of a crap.

story by Alexander Willis

... is this a blog post ?
(( crossposted from Reddit, then to politics community on lemmy(dot)world ))

Holy shit.

starting in late March 2026, there will be a new limit of 5 high-traffic communities per moderator. Only communities with greater than 100k weekly visitors count toward this limit, and there are no limits on communities under that amount.

For those who are impacted (less than 0.1% of active mods), we’re rolling out in several phases over 6 months to ensure mods have sufficient time to prepare. We notified all impacted moderators last month, and you can also check your status anytime here.

More details in the thread.

We could also consider policies around this on an instance level. I don't think it's that big of a problem yet, and "X communities with >Y users" might not be the best metric for us, but it's worth discussing

Edit: Oops, it is /r/Tennessee, not /r/ProgressiveHQ

I found Lemmy thanks to a guy on reddit wich answered to my comment. I said that we leftists generally lacked a place where we could express some opinions without te fear of being banned. infact Reddit moderation (both admins and mods) suck and doing their "job" and there are instances of people being banned just for saying something completely normal or just some bugs. I am still active on Reddit but would like to make the Lemmy community grow so mabye it can become and actual alternative.

Sorry for any disturb, bye :3

P.S.

Ban evasion control is stupid and I fucking hate permabans, since they are so common for the minimal stuff.

My account has been banned by reddit for a most absurd reason.

First, I recieved warnings text of which said they were auto generated. Since auto generated content is least reliable, I ignored them.

Second, the warnings were themself irrational. Social media always has a share button. If a post is supposed to remain private, either it should be mentioned on top of it or shall be posted in a private community. Posts I shared were on public pages and I did not claim copy right. In fact, details of model and photo studio were explicitly visible.

Now I'm very very disappointed by Reddit. What sort of naive policy is it. I had an account with 10K karma. Had made some original posts with 100s if likes n shares. I want my reddit account back. I don't want to make a new one. I want my original account un-banned. Kindly guide me how may I proceed??

This was the weirdest thing I've seen today. These are only the ones I've spotted.

funnily enough, these bots are also replying to an obvious repost from another bot account. It's at the top right now! Beautiful

https://www.reddit.com/r/goodnews/comments/1p8dt2a/_/

tipping points:

1. consuming so much AI content has led to me able to see subtle patterns
2. They're all saying "exactly" and saying the same thing"
3. their usernames are similar, flower/nature related, two words, no profile pictures
4. All of their profiles have the exact same format of comments with the agreement, summary
5. and they all have porn on their profile. oh

edit: tf?

Happened a couple of weeks ago, but all API access has to go through a manual review process and seems like they're rejecting personal 3rd party use. The only way you can use the API now is if you create a game or mod tool that "lives on reddit".

The people that create access tokens to use third party apps won't be considered a "responsible use" for the API, right?

Correct and this hasn't changed since we made our updates back in 2023. The goal is to enable developers to build great products for users and mods, powered by Reddit on Reddit.

tl;dr: r/AmITheAsshole?

So I'm a Reddit refugee late by two years. Before all, I'm from somewhere you'll need VPNs to access the real Internet, and people aren't familiar with how Reddit works.

I got permabanned in an anime subreddit for calling out someone straightly said "the manga is f***ing disgusting" bc fanservices. My language is at worse "I hope you're satisfied rubbing your uncivilizedness into [manga author]'s face" and my ban reason was "mean language & hate".

Well it was just a ban in one singular sub and smaller subs for same anime exists. But my deadass didn't think through and rage-deleted my 3y-old Reddit account, planning to "start again" before learning how Reddit treats newcomers, alt accounts and VPN users the hard way.

Now I have created some alts and all got either banned or shadowbanned for "ban evasion ", or may had smth to do with me using VPNs. Ofc I had to use an alt account now since I can't retreat to my old one. I can't even browse Reddit without logging in bc "blocked by network security".

I admit it's my fault rage-deleting my account recklessly; I admit it's not Reddit's fault they had to prevent spam and ban-evasion; but do I really deserved this?

Having turned my sub-wide ban into a Reddit-wide ban and learnt my lesson, I'm now here in Lemmy.

It all started on Tuesday, when a moderator for r/JoeRogan wrote that “all political posts are now banned on r/JoeRogan.”

“Today we are making the decision to ban all political posts indefinitely,” the explanation read. “After careful consideration, internal discussion and tons of external feedback we have collectively decided that r/joerogan is not the place for politics anymore.”

That post was not received well. One contributor wrote, “Every reddit mod is a hall monitor dork, change my mind. Youre banning the topic he talks about the most. You guys are hypocrites and anti free speech. If you cant mod effectively then go paint your warhammer figurines and let someone else do it.”

They deleted their account, so maybe they're here?

Last update: https://old.reddit.com/r/epoxyhotdog/comments/y3p3ix/2_year_update/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lj0XC2aHxrM

Rogan's conspiracy-minded audience blame mods of covering up for Rogan's guests, including Trump, who are named in the Epstein files.

Did anyone else here noticed?

No matter the subject or your opinion, there's always people down voting you.

I don't care about up/down votes but we can't deny that's a way to know the acceptance of your thoughts by the community.

I tried to make some posts absolute neutral, just asking simple things to see if people discuss and interact which each other and me, I just got down voted out of nowhere.

Right now I'm seeing the karma count fighting going up and down, some people just down vote out of nowhere without any possible logic explanation.

Did anyone figure out what's up with those people?

Discussing on Reddit feels like a fight to know who has the best opinion of all, you just aren't allowed to think different or they'll down vote you to hell.

😬

I knew it happened, I didn't realise how brazen it was...

https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/4340948903

Made a snarky, obviously sarcastic comment basically word for word: "Yeah, women didn't even exist until the 1920s and Asians are a myth" In response to a racist jerk complaining that a depiction of 1880s Chicago was "too diverse".

So 4 days later Reddit slaps me with a permanent ban for violating rule 1 "hate".

The really effed up part is the offending comment was summarily removed and therefore not even quoted in the ban notice. Meaning that after 4 days I didnt immediately recall the now missing comment and could only appeal based the general fact that I mock racists.

This is some absolute bullshit. And now that I recall the basic wording I cant even add to the appeal.

Is Reddit trying extra hard to suck now or what.

Any alternatives to force a response and ecpme action of this nonsense?

Has anybody here experienced this? I got banned from Reddit for as far as I'm concerned unfair or no rational reasons. I was just warning people of things and talking political things.

My account is several years old. I am not sure what I did wrong. I was posting political content and certain warnings which included I guess Reddit that was the main part.

I explained how I didn't respect vets doing Trump's betting and lost respect for them. I posted about how the Venezuela war is likely over oil.

All resources, I used to back up with sources. I then warned this one user and it seems the ban was immediate. It was regarding privacy.

I responded to one person talking about content, if it truly hides it. I responded no, and if Reddit's DB is ever exposed. It could be leaked like ATT was. This wasn't illegal or violation of ToS. I was explaining he should talk on there like he does in real life, as if it's his real identity. I got into how Google paid Reddit money to surf their content.

It immediately told me to reset my password. I did. I then noticed none of my posts got any views. I then thought I was shadow banned. So I looked, and then looked in incognito mode. It said my account was suspended.

I appealed it once, no response within 24hrs, I did it again in another 24hrs. I did it under help. I was going through all of my posts deleting them.

I heard on another website, if you find the infringing post, it can possibly lift your ban. So I did. Removed over 100 (took forever). I then woke up, and couldn't even log into my account.

Wrong user/pass, even reset I can't. I removed my 2auth factor earlier. I tried everything since I wasn't getting a single response from Reddit.

Is it gone forever? I thought they would at least give me some kind of explanation of what I did wrong. Nothing, crickets.

I wasn't making a threat to Reddit about their database being hacked. I've had my information leaked multiple times from other forums. I know what it is like. I don't even know how to hack.