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.

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.

Apparently Reddit has a bot problem, not the bots posting and replying but the ones scraping so Reddit is a little bit usable. When Reddit blocked API access 3 years ago I built and launched https://rdx.overdevs.com/ a read-only, open source Reddit website and app.

I have been bombarded with comments and mails asking why it is not working now, and the reason is this. Reddit has blocked JSON endpoint to access whatever limited data it allowed to acceess and is thinking of blocking RSS feeds.

Reddit announcement - https://www.reddit.com/r/modnews/comments/1tq9vxo/protecting_communities_from_scrapers_and_platform/

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.

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?

The US Justice Department is seeking the names, addresses, and banking information of Reddit and X users, ratcheting up efforts to identify social media critics of government deportation efforts.

The anonymous users, who learned of the subpoenas from the platforms and hired lawyers to challenge the government’s demands for information, haven’t been told what possible offenses are being probed. Their lawyers believe the investigations could relate to allegations of revealing a federal officer’s location data or other types of perceived threats, but dispute that their clients committed crimes. Even if no charges ultimately are filed, the attorneys contended in interviews that rooting out identities of dissenters is at the very least an intimidation tactic.

• The recommended subreddits are all just repost farms where people pretend not to get the joke or repost videos with less context each time
• The games they put into the mobile view are fun for about 1 play but now they are half my feed
• my local subreddit is so obviously being astroturfed in preparation for November that you normal users are calling it out

It seems like on all fronts Reddit is getting so much worse.

But is it getting worse faster or is it just because I have a new account and I took the bait and interacted with dumb features?

I got banned by AI about a month ago, being the sucker that I am, I created a new account, so I'm not 100% if this is the experience new redditors get/want or if it's being pushed on everyone.

Its been few months since I am not using reddit bcz if my mistakes so ended up here everything looks slightly complicated.nit giving the vibe of reddit but ig its good

How is ur experience till now Thanku

I posted links to help people know that there are sites that will detect AI images, and… lo and behold, a dipshit clown for a mod banned me because I “spammed my site”.

LMAO!

The dipshit actually thought I was advertising my own website! And in true ‘puffed-chest bravado’, he muted me so not only couldn’t I point out how fucking stupid his accusation was, but that I was spamming a link to an AI detection site- ON COMMENTS MADE BY BOTS!

Man… It’s so true that any moderator with half-functioning brains have abandoned that shithole long ago.

This was too fucking funny!

EDIT: HOLY SHIT! LMAO! Get this,

So, the coward just unmuted me, wrote a few paragraphs digging further into their stupid decision, then re-muted me after telling me that my ban cannot be unlifted. What a pathetic little chode!

I was probably one of the few people calling out the bot slop in that sub, and the only reason I didn’t mute it was because AI whack-a-mole is a weird way I pass down-time.

If anyone was wondering, the sub is r/funny. Go check out all the bot slop those clowns are too stupid to notice.

Some good comments here . Very interesting. Top post:

Answer: It was determined and made public that the majority of posts on that sub are from 3 accounts all based in Russia and are promoted by an army of bots. 
The ones leaving were bots removed by Reddit  

EDIT - wow, did not expect this to get so much attention and awards - thank you!  

https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/1p1vx9n/oc_nearly_every_day_two_users_on_rconservative/

cross-posted from: https://lemdro.id/post/40102952

Needed a pickling mix recipe I remembered only vaguely, but before I navigated to the community that held it, I noticed how horrifically botted the front page was. I did a cursory account check of the posts on the top sort and found that nearly half of the front page was comprised of bot posts or bot boosted accounts. Which is, under no uncertain terms, horrific.

Lemmy has its issues, but how someone could see this toxic landfill and choose to plant their flag there, I don’t understand. Glad to be amongst the people who cannot tolerate this.

Lemmy Deep Lighthouse

I built a Firefox extension to help people bring their own Reddit posts over to Lemmy.

It lets you map subreddits you post in to Lemmy communities, review queued posts before publishing, and post through your own Lemmy account. Settings and credentials stay in your browser; there is no hosted service.

This is intended for republishing your own work, not scraping or reposting other people's content. The goal is to make moving from Reddit to Lemmy less tedious while keeping authors in control.

Firefox extension: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/lemmy-deep-lighthouse/
Source and releases: https://codeberg.org/sanitation/lemmy-deep-lighthouse

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/63993430

2nd account I had in that BS site. Not only did my post 'magically' got deleted

Sorry, this post was removed by Reddit’s filters.

But now I'm getting this...again?! I used VPN and everything. What the crud! I just wanted to post on fan subreddits. This is BS. And I can't even post for help because those will get deleted too the moment i submit.

A few months ago I was unnecessarily banned on my reddit account first, but then even if I use different computers and a different Internet, it somehow realizes that it's me and bans me. When I open my account, there is no problem, but as soon as I write something, it is banned.

cross-posted from: https://discuss.online/post/39213608

On Thursday, users of the prominent Reddit community known as “r/Epstein” uncovered that “u/maxwellhill” appears to have been reinstated as a moderator for the influential Reddit community “r/worldnews,” among the platform’s largest communities that has more than 47 million subscribers.