Reddit

I wanted to get an outside perspective on my Lemmy experience, so I go on /r/redditalternatives and bring up my experiences that I've described elsewhere here (tl;dr Lemmy communities are either filled with non sequitur ragebait or completely empty).

I get plenty of responses echoing my sentiment and offering suggestions like blocking and filtering. Plenty of others pointing out how Reddit sucks in its own way and how Lemmy addresses those issues (no creepy AI bots pretending to be real people). I feel my OP and the ongoing discussion is constructive and in good faith, and most people myself included express a desire to see Lemmy and the fediverse succeed despite our frustrations. But oops out of nowhere I get muted and banned with no explanation.

Fun times.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/2653874

OMG

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/shit/p/1193177/reddit-moderators-be-like

The post in the comments

Fuck that shithole, I deleted my account.

I get the sense a few more users have joined Lemmy/Piefed from Reddit because of something that happened over there. Welcome to all the Reddit refugees out there.

I'll just put out a quick PSA that in addition to a multitude of mobile applications to use Lemmy and Piefed (see this megathread), there are web applications that change the UI to give you a more familiar experience without needing to install an app. Most exist on a per-site basis so you'll have to see if the instance your account is on installed them (or you can browse as a guest). Check the instance sidebar or ask your local admin.

Here are a few notable examples:

• Alexandrite a.lemmy.world, alex.lemmy.ca etc. Clean, full image previews when scrolling.
• mlmym (Old Desktop Reddit style) old.lemmy.world, old.lemmy.ca etc.
• Photon p.lemmy.world, photon.lemmy.ca, well laid out for mobile use but works well on desktop
• Blorp blorp.lemmy.world, blorp.lemmy.ca etc. more optimized for mobile
• Voyager and tessaract and more.

Each are maintained by 3rd party mostly volunteer developers, so be aware, in case of breaking changes to Lemmy that might affect how well these frontends work.

Gained around 11 karma in a day, just by commenting under sub reddits without Karma restrictions. Yet, this is what happened. Does this mean it is shadowbanned? It is, correct me if im not wrong!

I can't get rid of it, it's obnoxious. I've tried filtering the element with my adblocker but it keeps reappearing. As much as I find Reddit useful (unfortunately), especially for information and discussion relating to my country, I will never install their proprietary garbage app on my phone just to use their website.

Oh well. I've used the Internet before Reddit existed, I'm sure I can get used to doing so again.

Needed to look up old posts for some technical support. Man, they are really trying to clean up their decimated image huh?

Thankfully uBlock removed it.

At this point there's no way to disable this view which features algorithmily selected posts from subreddits your not currently subscribed to. You have to manually switch to "Following" every time you visit the homepage to see normal view of posts from subscribed subreddits.

Hello,

Sorry, first post here but guess I might be using it more.

So on Reddit, I was banned from a news sub on my main account a long time ago, and then got a push notification on my phone (one of their breaking news ones) that I clicked on and made a comment on. Well, I guess I got the push notification on my alt account that I pretty much never use, and it was from that sub I was banned from on my main account, so later in the day, both of those accounts got banned. Complete accident, did not intend to evade any ban.

I submitted an appeal, but is there any chance of that appeal working? Or am I pretty much screwed?

Reddit users are being targeted by a growing wave of sponsored scam ads impersonating major news organizations, including the BBC, the Financial Times, and The Guardian, according to new findings from Bitdefender Labs.

The campaign promotes fake AI-powered investment platforms such as Wencoin STX, Warrior Coin AI, and Nevo Coin, using fabricated celebrity endorsements, cloned news websites, fake interviews, and invented financial success stories to lure victims into depositing money.

Yeah like everyone else here… Venting about how shitty Reddit is. In the last 2 years I’ve been getting 7-day bans every few months for the dumbest things. Seriously ridiculous how relatively unoffensive my comments are. Half of which were bot bans. This last time I decided to use my alt account during a ban and got my main account permanently banned. Submitted an appeal but I don’t have high hopes and even if they lift it, fuck them. Not to mention individual sub bans for simply joining other subs or having a link to my OnlyFans on my profile. I’ve had enough.

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/shit/p/1175662/reddit

I've been using Reddit is fun on my phone using my account's API key and it appears the ship has now finally sailed.

I would be curious to know if others are still able to access RIF/other third party clients, or not, so we can get some basic idea if this is a single account or them finally closing the last loophole.

It's also completely valid to not care at all about Reddit because clearly this is an abusive company and for me personally, I can only see this being beneficial for my mental health.

So I made a joke a Reddit and got again a ban for excouraging violence. Their automoderation is just a broken piece of shit. I never encourage violence, nor would anyone with half a brain interpret it that way. I'm so fucking tired of walking on egg shells on the internet these days. And it's not just Reddit. Pretty much any social media feels like it's cosplaying as 1984 Big Brother. I 'm tired of all the selfsensoring like pdf or s*x. Can we get back to being treated as adults please.

It was on this thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/TrueAnon/comments/1tugq26/snowflake_alert/

I suggested that the account holder of X account StopAntiSemitism was a Jewish Supremacist to try to make sense of their claims. The comment was instantly deleted, and my account of over 10 years permanently banned. The message on the top says to check my inbox for info, but there's nothing in the inbox.

To be clear, I am not an antisemite. My antipathy towards Jewish supremacists is the same as my antipathy towards white supremacists, for example. I reject positions that claim or implication that any human group is inherently superior and deserving of special treatment or rights.

This is a sequel to this rant. I came to the realization that Lemmy and the broader fediverse aren't really fun for me. The constant ragebait and politics shoehorned into everything was dragging me down, and the only communities without ragebait are also without content in general.

So I caved and made a Reddit account after 3 years and it's gotten so, so much worse. First is probably the "gamification" of everything. Reddit already had karma, which had its own problems, but it was simple. Monkey brain like number go up. Now they show you analytics on your posts and comments, and encourage you to improve them, as though you're meeting a metric rather than trying to connect with other people. It's gross and cynical.

Then there's the notifications. I get a notification every time a post is upvoted, not just for replies. It feels engineered to squeeze every drop of dopamine out of you and keep you feeding the content machine.

This one's more subtle. The simple Reddit gold awards that existed when I first joined in 2012 had already ballooned into a myriad of different little trophies when I left in 2023, but they've redesigned them and now they look like assets from a free to play mobile game, with the way the awards shine when you mouse over them to that particular bright plasticky round art style. It's not damning on its own, but combined with the above points it's another nail in the coffin.

Sponsored posts I think were already a thing when I left, but now there are ads in the comments as well. There used to be one ad on a specific dedicated spot off to the side. It was unobtrusive without being hard to find. I felt that was fair. But it's not about keeping the lights on anymore, now the whole things screams "You're the product!"

But worst of all are the bots, AI masquerading as real users that make superficially genuine posts and comments. Discriminating between AI and human content is probably a skill that I could hone with time, but I shouldn't have to go on a witch hunt every time someone compliments me. I've even been tricked into wasting my empathy on them, all so they can farm me for content.

So yeah, maybe I should just throw away my router and go outside.

Since yesterday the Home feed on Reddit shows this. Sometimes it shows some content, like 3 or 4 posts, then back to this.

The Popular feed still works unfortunately. Better it didn't because it sucks majorly.

Anyone with this issue too?

Rdx is a free Reddit reader that emerged after the API controversy. It was always limited - couldn't post, couldn't login, but utilized a hidden feature of reddit - you could just add .JSON to the end of a subreddit url and get the content back in in a useful format for an app like RDX to ingest.

From the RDX developer:

Last night reddit disabled JSON feeds that is affecting your usage of rdx website and app. I am trying to find ways to fix this. Maybe I can fix the apps using some workaround, maybe I can't but I will try. You can keep the apps or get the apps from app stores.

Thanks for your support for RDX for over 3 years. A small project that reached millions of people.

I'm looking for a free tool that can delete my comments and posts only from specific subreddits. I've tried the following tools, but none were able to properly finish the task:

Power Delete Suite

• Generally works, but I think it can't see your entire Reddit history. After deleting a few hundred comments and posts, it stops deleting.
• I tried running it again, and it deletes another hundred or so. And then a couple more until it completely stops.

ereddicator

• Killed by Reddit's recent API changes (disabled users' ability to create new API keys)

shreddit

• Killed by Reddit's recent API changes (disabled users' ability to create new API keys)

Redact.dev

• Doesn't delete comments/posts. It only edits them.
• Costs money.

Does anyone here have any other suggestions? Or alternatively, does anyone know how to retrieve the Client Secret code from an existing Reddit application? I have an existing Reddit application setup on Reddit, but don't have the Client Secret.

EDIT: Changed text formatting.