“Come make friends on Reddit”

  • Insane_Turnip@lemmy.world
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    14 hours ago

    Reddit is the most new-user-unfriendly site I have ever been to. You’ve got to farm an unknown amount of karma before you can post or comment in subreddits. There’s a reason I’m at Lemmy now. Fuck Reddit. (Also, 4chan is a toilet. The occasional nuggets of good stuff aren’t worth trawling through pages of shitposts for.)

    • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today
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      6 hours ago

      reddit recently became hostile to new users, and inactive users(users that suddenly decide to use thier old accounts to comment) they just shadowban most of them now. the only people ive seen that succesful are the ones that are using other methods(not vpn) to hide thier device, fingerprinting, IP adress etc. even this is temporary, since reddit is also catching up to the other methods.

      • Psythik@lemmy.world
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        5 hours ago

        That’s funny cause all but one of my alts was banned, which so happened to me the only account I didn’t use the same email address for. So I figured that email is the only tracking method they use. I’ve had no issue making new accounts under different address.

        • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today
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          5 hours ago

          were using the same IP address, my last account is shadowbanned, after the great purge where they targetalled peoples multiple accounts.

    • Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works
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      12 hours ago

      It’s worse than ever. Once you work your way up to being able to say anything - BAN! It’s more of an echo chamber than ever before.

      • Korhaka@sopuli.xyz
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        6 hours ago

        They don’t even let you see what you were banned for. Links to a comment that doesn’t exist within your ban notification

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          6 hours ago

          AI bans dont tell you that your what you were banned for, its always the generic “you have violated mutliple violations, on your ACCOUNTS” message. they also use AI moderation to shadowban people too, which i think is much more severe than the sitewide banning. they originally shadowban people for using ban evasion accounts, but now they are abusing to ban anyone indiscirminately(aside from a selected group of users).

          i think reddit also gatekeep new users, and inactive users.

          • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
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            1 hour ago

            They are carefully curating their membership so it’s more MAGA-friendly. They’re turning it into Twitter.

    • EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com
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      11 hours ago

      Moved here and haven’t looked back.

      I do keep a Reddit account that is strictly used for informational/support type stuff (i.e. “help me figure out what type of widget I should buy for this task”). I avoid anything controversial on that account.