Hey redfugees! I’m a little OOTL… I know reddit has been going downhill for a while, but how has it suddenly nosedived? What triggered it? It’s bewildering, and they’re losing countless users.
Well there was the shift a couple years ago with Reddit seeking to dramatically increase ad revenue, so they banned the use of third party clients to force users through their monetization racket.
Along with that, they clamped down on the API preventing search engines or other applications from indexing data unless they paid reddit for it, ontop of selling user data to AI companies regardless of what the community thinks of that practice. (afaik, there’s no opt-out either)
And now, they’ve made a pretty big pivot in cracking down on free speach; banning users for so much as liking a comment that contains the word ‘Luigi’ (even if obviously video game related and nothing to do with politics).
I remember how downhill it went with the ad revenue it started to be more and more facebooky which can only be bad. Have they given any official statement on wtf is going on? And can you explain the API stuff I’m not savvy with it.
Elmo got mad at reddit in his tweets for unmoderated “inciting violence” in r/whitepeopletwitter
In my case, I wanted to get away from US American closed source social media controlled by US companies which ultimately are controlled by Trump and his narrative. Am German. We’re mad as hell.
They started enforcing a new policy that will warn, or even perma ban you, for simply up voting content they deem as being against their rules. As well as removing anti-1% sentiments like “eat the rich” or even “Luigi;” even in the context of talking about the Nintendo character.
Luigi stomps on turtles, this promoting cruelty to animals. He also promotes drug use through the consumption of mushrooms with performance enhancing effects.
The only reason I can think of as to why Mario isn’t also banned is because the rule was made by the older brother.
I’m gonna keep doing that until they ban my reddit account
In the current climate that won’t take long
Then i guess i won’t stay on reddit for very long
And you will go down in style
Reddit stakeholders are afraid of Luigi Mangione
