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.

Reddit community is probably the worst and most toxic group of people I've ever had the displeasure of interact with on my life.

It's nearly impossible to have a serious discussion without a single rage bait comment.

I tried for the last time talking about a theory I made up, pretty serious post and a little long, then I go back to read if someone kindly tried to argue or show reason in the comments, the first comment I see is:

You don't have a theory, you have a fantasy

It's just insufferable, I don't know why I keep interacting on that shitty platform.

While it's true you see the same behavior on Lemmy sometimes, it's incomparable to Reddit. I truly hope there's not a mass migration from Reddit to Lemmy in the future or it's just the beginning of the end for Lemmy as well.

I've seen some Reddit-like toxicity here a few times but it was pretty rare overall. It's a reasonable decent place to discuss and interact with others.

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.

I was in a sub yesterday dedicated to pro cannabis growing.

Floraflex is a major brand and has been out of a product called

1/4 gallon quickfills since November last year.

Somehow I got banned long with every account on my IP address in my house.

I said there is a sketchy website that when they answer has a heavy middle eastern accent and they claim to be in Denver. i posted the website name and spelled dot com so they would not be able to enjoy a backlink from my post.

They are using a virtual office service so they appear they are in Denver. Floraflex contacted me today and confirmed everyone is out of stock worldwide. Yet these guys are happy to take almost $7k from me for fake stock that will never arrive. My thanks for warning other pro growers was to get a permanent ban.

I have no idea how saying a sketch site with heavy middle eastern accents is hate and enough for permanent ban of a 15 year old account.

I’m looking for participants to take part in a study about people using tools (like Redact or PowerDeleteSuite) to delete old Reddit posts and prevent the use of their data to train AI.

Participation involves completing a short intake form and joining a 1-hour online interview. The study is with the University of Toronto.

If you’re interested, you can hear more details and sign up at: https://qualtricsxmfw76s26sl.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_5uxalY9uIDKrctU

(As a token of thanks, you’ll receive a $30 (CAD) gift card for Amazon.)

Not sure if it’s just me but Reddit has been feeling a bit weird lately.

Seeing more posts about bans, shadowbans, AI stuff popping up, and even some big threads don’t really feel as “normal” or casual as they used to.

Could just be overthinking it or spending too much time here tbh.

Been messing around with a small side project called Hideout that kind of came from that feeling — just trying to make something more low pressure and simple to use, nothing big.

Anyone else noticed this or nah?

The Hideout

Just checked in on the subreddit mentioned in this post. It's still getting bot posts in the same style, which get upvoted accordingly and commented on with the vast majority not noticing or caring that it's slop. Mods still out to lunch.

Likewise, there's now a post on /r/all (seen using old.reddit, the only way to get to it now) at #10 and climbing with the same style but targeting povertyfinance, a bigger sub (one with a pinned message claiming to be a "heavily moderated subreddit"). If you look at the users, you can see the details of how they create a couple comments in random subs until one of those comments get several dozen upvotes, then go for the viral post. All accounts make a move around 8 days after creation. And it's working, no problem.

Two bot profiles that just reached this point for comparison/posterity:

https://imgur.com/a/6bz8XxI

I don't know who Sabrina Carpenter nor do I give a shit. I am interested if rich people's lawyers think they can remove shit on Lemmy.

link to the removed post: https://www.reddit.com/r/Fauxmoi/comments/1sijtm5/during_coachella_someone_did_a_zaghroot_an_arab/

I just found out reddit sold everything we wrote to AI companies... and honestly I don't know how to feel

I just found out reddit sold everything we wrote to AI companies... and honestly I don't know how to feel

So I was reading about Reddit's API controversy from 2023 and fell down a rabbit hole.

Turns out every post, every comment, every opinion you've shared here - reddit licensed it to openai and google. No opt-out. No warning. Just. - done.

And that's just reddit. Meanwhile Google, Meta, and basically every major platform are quietly building a profile on you — your interests, your political leanings, your daily routine, your insecurities. All from things you said or clicked on "anonymously."

The wild part? We already knew this was happening. It's not new. Yet here we all are, still posting.

So I'm genuinely curious — why do you still use reddit (or big tech in general) knowing this?

Is it because:

• The alternatives (Lemmy- kbin- etc..) just aren't there yet?
• You've accepted it as the price of the internet
• You actually don't think it's that big a deal?
• Or you simply never thought about it until now?

Not judging anyone — I'm still here too. Just want to hear honest answers.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/66918676

Reason number 5,386 to delete your Reddit account and encourage your friends & loved ones to do the same.

cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/44753223

The story of how Reddit became ensnared in an ICE-related grand jury began early last month, when the company received a request to turn over the name, address, phone number, and other data associated with an account belonging to a user identified in court records as John Doe.

The request was what’s known as an administrative summons or administrative subpoena, a powerful legal tool typically associated with serious crimes such as child trafficking. Under Trump, the subpoenas, which do not require judicial approval, have increasingly become a weapon wielded against opponents of the president’s immigration policies.

While it does not disaggregate ICE’s activities from other law enforcement agencies’ requests, Reddit reports that January to June 2025 marked the highest volume of requests the company has ever received in a single reporting period. Sixty-six percent of the 1,179 requests came from agencies in the U.S., including 423 subpoenas and 27 court orders. Reddit disclosed user data in 82 percent of those cases. While most requests concern child safety, the next highest category of data sought by law enforcement agencies falls into what Reddit lists as “other/unknown investigation types.”

In the John Doe case, Reddit received an initial request on March 4 from an ICE agent in Fairfax, Virginia.

“Failure to comply with this summons will render you liable to proceedings in a U.S. District Court to enforce compliance with this summons as well as other sanctions,” the summons read. “You are requested not to disclose the existence of this summons for an indefinite period of time. Any such disclosure will impede the investigation and thereby interfere with the enforcement of federal law.”