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Shadow bans.
My wife tried to post a bunch on art related communities only to have her account banned without us knowing. She does oil paintings and other such art pieces. You had to have a history before you could post…which no one was willing to tell her. So her account got shadow banned. She gave up after a while on reddit. I dont blame her.
I hope we never get so petty.
You mean like how you will never see this comment because I made fun of Rimu and Piefed on memes only posted to lemmy.ml so my account was deleted from piefed.socialcredit instance with the reason “Nasty” having never posted there?
Subreddits that do not represent the title and instead hate it.
I’m looking at you /r/china.Perhaps its too late for the largest instances, but the idea of a site like this being a spectator activity, about consumption, rather than creating communities. Some smaller instances, and even some larger ones, have an actual unique atmosphere and have larger projects across the instance. When we suddenly got a flood of reddit users escaping from the third-party API fiasco and the Luigi bans, that was huge enough to dilute some of the communities with large amounts of people used to simply voting and commenting, or having a website premade for them.
The Reddit culture of just hating on random people’s objectively harmless hobbies/interests/preferences. Think “snark” subreddits and similar. And if you call them out on it suddenly you’re the problem.
Channel that hate toward things that actually do harm if anything.
Corporate control
Unsolicited bot comments.
One to correct a minor grammar mistake, a second to call the first pedantic, and a bunch of good bot/bad bot replies to both, and now half the comment section is noise.
They’re rarely funny or interesting past the first time you encounter them, and their creators never willing to acknowledge that they’ve unleashed a pest.
Overly restricting and subjective deletions and bans for low quality. (Eg: /r/casualuk)
Hear me out - restricting based on low quality sounds great, right? Until it’s your post that’s blocked. And you know it isn’t low quality, is unique and offers a new perspective. Some mods have genuinely forgotten that it’s (mostly) humans at the other end of their actions, or haven’t forgotten and enjoy being dicks.
Karma farming accounts. Bot commenters.
A hivemind that likes propaganda
I think that might be 99% of the population. It’s like the zombie apocalypse happened yesterday and nobody noticed.
everything i hoped to never see is already here and has been here since the original redditor exodus after that whole API fiasco
the misogyny, the barely-disguised racism, the western chauvinism, the excessive hostility and pedantry, and did i mention the misogyny? holy shit there’s so much misogyny
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This.
Underrated comment.
(Under the very top comment or something incredibly basic and lame.)
“This is the way”
Certainly karma.
