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.

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.socialEnglish
    5·
    18 days ago

    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.

  • Darkassassin07@lemmy.caEnglish
    4·
    19 days ago

    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).

    • CheeseToastie@lazysoci.alOPEnglish
      1·
      19 days ago

      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.

  • zephorah@lemm.ee
    0·
    19 days ago

    “Eat the rich” is specifically cited as a violent and violence encouraging statement, bannable.

    Upvotes of such statements will also be given bans.