• Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Well…the problem is reddit’s size.

    I’m not part of reddit anymore because they filtered me out for abusive content.

    The content that was so abusive? I told a story on /r/Cleveland about the time 35 years ago I got my bike stolen.

    I wasn’t accusing any current reddit user of being the theif. But reddit bots flagged me of being abusive to other users.

    We don’t even know if that guy who stole my bike 35 years ago is even still alive, much less an active redditor on /r/Cleveland. So who am I being abusive to, when I say it’s a bad idea to let strangers ride your bike without some kind of assurance you’ll get it back?

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      1 month ago

      Fair. +1

      But also, that just sounds like they’re cheaping out on content filtering. And, you know, kinda broke the enthusiastic community moderation that made it great in the first place.

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        1 month ago

        Yes, that’s true. This all happened like 3 weeks after they went public IPO. I didn’t buy it, because I thought reddit had a decent chance of falling on it’s ass on the free market. It’s a 10+ year old company that’s never made a profit. It’s reasonable to assume it might fail.

        3 weeks after I declined, and they went public, I suddenly get 3 temporary bans in a week, and the 3rd one was a permanent ban. All by autobots.

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          1 month ago

          Yeah same here, the last post I made was to argue for more disabled access to European historical sites n the r/europe subreddit.

          After everything I’ve posted, THAT is what got me banned.

          After loosing my appeal, I changed all my prior posts to AI generated gibberish.

          Fuck Reddit, salt your posts so they can’t use your content to make money on search or train AI.