The website is attacking the users that made it the front page of the internet.
      • toy_boat_toy_boat@lemmy.worldEnglish
        22·
        2 days ago

        i started visiting reddit back around 2009 when places like digg and fark kept linking over there. i liked it because it had a design that the average person wouldn’t like - the old design. they sorted comments in a new way that i liked. it’s been a slow boil, but look at the reddit monstrosity now. the redesign is puke-inducing, and there really isn’t any point in the vote sorting any more because people don’t upvote for visibility any more insomuch as just use it as like/dislike. there isn’t even any benefit in trying to point that out any more either, because today’s reddit users just don’t understand that approach to votes - and it really, really sucks.

        • My_IFAKs___gone@lemmy.world
          3·
          2 days ago

          I want to upvote this because I like it, but now I’m conflicted because I don’t want to inadvertently abuse the upvote mechanism.

          • toy_boat_toy_boat@lemmy.worldEnglish
            4·
            2 days ago

            yo - upvote it if you think it’s worth it for other people to see it, whether you agree with it or not. it might spark a debate. it might sway opinion. but either way, voting for visibility is the best thing to do on a SMALL forum like this. Appreciate lemmy while it’s still small!!!

            AND fwiw - your upvotes should probably not be monitored. that would just be a huge dick move (sorry, it took me a sec).

    • FrostBlazer@lemm.ee
      68·
      2 days ago

      I feel like the admins over there really take for granted how much people care about Reddit. The more they degrade the sense of community, the more it continues to crumble until users feel that there’s no point in going back.

      With how many posts are just pure AI generated rage bait, it’s becoming more clear by the day how little worth there is left on Reddit.

        • FrostBlazer@lemm.ee
          7·
          2 days ago

          Did they change the way things are formatted? Such as the [removed] comments now just appearing as [deleted]? Deleted would imply the users removed their own content while removed would imply the mods or admins removed it, at least that’s how things have always been. However, I have only been seeing a sea of [deleted] lately.

          • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.socialEnglish
            16·
            2 days ago

            After the API kerfuffle, a lot of users who left also used tools to completely erase their content from the site, which explains the sea of [deleted] posts and users. You may also see comments and text body posts that are full of incoherent gibberish because one of the tools didn’t delete the content in the normal way, it simply edited the content to be a bunch of random gibberish.

            • aesthelete@lemmy.world
              6·
              2 days ago

              it simply edited the content to be a bunch of random gibberish.

              I used a tool that did this. I also used it on purpose because I figured it would make the content more difficult to farm. Lots of software doesn’t actually delete anything when you delete it, but it’s a lot more work to put versioning in and then you’d have to go search the version history to find a version that wasn’t mangled to farm it…so that’ll all theoretically make it more difficult for them to find what I originally wrote.

              • Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish
                1·
                2 days ago

                i just ended up deleted all my comments on my last 2 accts, so they cant be farmed, unless reddit undeletes them. wonder when reddit is going to pull a FB ressurection, revives your account but controlled by AI bots for right wing disinformation.

    • RoundSparrow @ .ee@lemm.ee
      181·
      2 days ago

      I think the USA has taken a deep dive in international standing since January 2025, and Reddit is a USA-flavored USA-centered content publisher in terms of front page community. Things were pretty anti-USA with all the support of Israel in 2024, but now in 2025 with Elon Musk being the center of all USA society attention every minute of every day, sites like Reddit are being turned away from (or people only reading to mock the USA) - where the HiveMind is extremely USA technology consumerism / technology lifestyle worship.

      For example, I never witness anyone on Reddit criticize Apple Computers for funding Twitter / X in 2025. It’s tech addiction as the primary religion on Reddit. And I think those outside the USA are sick of that machine lust / machine mind behavior of Elon Musk, Zuck, Amazon, etc.

      “Technopoly is a state of culture. It is also a state of mind. It consists in the deification of technology, which means that the culture seeks its authorization in technology, finds its satisfactions in technology, and takes its orders from technology.” ― Neil Postman, Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology, 1992

      • ungeee@lemmy.world
        5·
        2 days ago

        For example, I never witness anyone on Reddit criticize Apple Computers for funding Twitter / X in 2025.

        By funding you mean resuming advertising on the platform, right? I am not aware that Apple is financing X directly. In the end it is money in Musk‘s pockets, I know, but the distinction is worth pointing out nonetheless.

      • Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        2 days ago

        rather suspicious since only bots have those types of accts, i have a hunch reddit is actually accessing those accts or allowing bots to take over the accts. i heard people couldnt log back into thier old accts

      • Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        2 days ago

        worldnews was a plague, i had to block that sub. i was also reminding people in pics sub how the pict was about gaza and it wash bashing on biden pushing propaganda, and also gaza conflicts in the past had very little effect on elections, i just block and report those people. mostly it was inappropiate for that sub too.

  • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    681·
    2 days ago

    This article fails to mention that Huffman has previously praised Musk and how he runs Twitter.

    https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/reddit-blackout-protest-private-ceo-elon-musk-huffman-rcna89700

    Huffman said he saw Musk’s handling of Twitter, which he purchased last year, as an example for Reddit to follow.

    More importantly he’s a doomsday prepper with fucked up views:

    https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/01/30/doomsday-prep-for-the-super-rich

    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.

    • jonne@infosec.pub
      35·
      2 days ago

      If I end up on top after the apocalypse I’ll go out of my way to get him as a slave.

    • toy_boat_toy_boat@lemmy.worldEnglish
      12·
      2 days ago

      YES!! THANK YOU!!

      huffman caught whiff of what’s happening, and this is just a stupid empty move to stir people up and try to cause chaos. everything that’s happening is so that people can manipulate and exploit investments. i got my second (or third? fourth?) permanent ban for bringing it up… well probably - i don’t know because reddit removes the comment it bans you for and doesn’t let you see it. so fucking done.

    • Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish
      2·
      2 days ago

      they want something like a 4400 future, if you watched the show basically its the rich/wealthy enclaves in thier perfect city, while outside is like madmax/desolated. add in a little time travelling, superpowers and body possession arcs. i dont think it lasted many seasons.

      • SuperUserDO@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        10·
        2 days ago

        Kinda. We have a bunch of small instances each with its own set of rules/norms. Lemmy.ml for example is not going to take a very different approach to moderation then lemmynsfw…

        • Zahille7@lemmy.world
          42·
          2 days ago

          Everyone says that, but I haven’t run into any issues and .ml is the main one I use

            • Zahille7@lemmy.world
              51·
              2 days ago

              Since you deleted your comment within the last 15 minutes of posting it, it still shows up in my inbox.

              “Try saying something bad about China”

              Okay.

              The CCP is a blight on humanity, just like the IDF/Israeli government, Russia, and now including the US. Fuck China, I’ll never set foot in that country (except maybe Hong Kong) if I ever had the opportunity.

    • vaprz@lemmy.world
      22·
      2 days ago

      Reminds me of the HD decryoption key fiasco on digg. Everyone just kept posting it over and over in every thread. Moderators started banning people. People started jumping ship to Reddit.

      It’s what caused the first digg exodus, with the better known redesign failure being the second.

      • Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        2 days ago

        at least on reddit people are complaining about the shadowbanning thats been going on, they said it was also unearned and criticized teh admins why were some accts shadowbanned for 10years,.

      • uuldika@lemmy.ml
        1·
        2 days ago

        I don’t get it. Reddit’s so much more egregious than digg was - why haven’t more users jumped ship? the soul of the platform was broken with the API change, yet most users stayed, and the ones who did leave haven’t shown up here.

        was Lemmy just not ready?

    • ALQ@lemmy.world
      6·
      2 days ago

      If you’d only said it three times, you would’ve summoned him. So close!

  • flicker@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    352·
    2 days ago

    I actually suspected that this was part of all this.

    Real humans with lots of karma, some of it perhaps built up from before they started fucking with karma? Who might say something other than what the paid sponsors want?

    I think this is an intentional move to try and get rid of anyone with any authenticity who isn’t a bot or a shill.

    It’s just my little conspiracy. People with accounts like my old one would be very undesirable (lots of karma, ancient account age, not a capitalist stooge.)

    • pelespirit@sh.itjust.works
      6·
      2 days ago

      Maybe? They could do that anyway. It seems like drama to lure people back to me. The whole thing was written like an advertising in a warped way. Like those ads that make it to the front page that are slightly making fun of their product, but are ultimately advertising.

    • Pechente@feddit.org
      20·
      2 days ago

      You can always switch instances if your lemmy server implements policies you don’t like

      • Pennomi@lemmy.worldEnglish
        9·
        2 days ago

        Yep, you can’t control Lemmy, because it’s free, open source, and decentralized.

        The only way to control it is to make its users go away, and whaddya know, we’re still growing!

          • Lemminary@lemmy.world
            2·
            2 days ago

            easy on lemmy to leave a bad instance

            Too damn easy! That’s also why I have a couple alts lying around in case I need to jump ship again.

          • NaibofTabr@infosec.pubEnglish
            1·
            2 days ago

            That… doesn’t really answer the question. So it’s relatively easy to leave, but how would you know that you needed to in the first place?

            If the voting of posts on an instance were being manipulated, or the visibility of certain sources or users, or if commercial influences were affecting administrative decisions or moderator behavior, how would you know?

            How do you discover that you are in bubble? That the information being presented to you is intentionally skewed in order to project a narrative?

            How do you exit Plato’s cave if you don’t know that you are in it?

  • RabbitBBQ@lemmy.world
    7·
    2 days ago

    The entire system wants you to forget about Luigi and the entire issue. Sort of memory hole it like so many other things and let them punish him in secret. So it’s no surprise Reddit and others will try to Streisand it.

  • mesamune@lemmy.worldEnglish
    91·
    2 days ago

    I spoke with the moderation team for r/PublicFreakout, who told me: “It started with r/comics.” In late January, a cartoonist was permanently banned from the comics subreddit for “Nazi apologia,” after posting a comment dismissing the idea that Musk had made a Nazi salute at the inauguration (a gesture that, notably, had inspired a wide swath of moderators to block X links from their subreddits). Musk found that cartoonist’s tweet and called his ban “insane,” inspiring his followers to assail r/comics.

    That’s some bull shit. Well we are seeing a serge. So come on down! The fediverse will talk when reddit won’t allow you.

  • Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    5·
    2 days ago

    Not that anyone cares but this same shit is happening on Tictok as well. Anything pro Lulgi, PaIestine or anti lsraeI is banned. I assume it’s the same on Meta’s other properties as well. Straight up fasclsm!

  • laranis@lemmy.zip
    41·
    2 days ago

    Please stop propagating click bait titles. For all that is holy, this is Lemmy and we’re better than that.

    Right?

  • Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish
    2·
    2 days ago

    i was reading the same post on reddit, people agree with the enshittifcation process going on,.