i actually knew one of these powerusers in the early 2010s. he had leukemia, and i signed up to be a match to donate spinal marrow for him. i visited him in the hospital a bunch. he hasn’t acknowledged me since. that was a real bummer, but, i tend to see friends where they don’t exist so that might be on me.
i am a little bummed that i got permabanned just because i was so close to all of the reddit founders and early employees. i personally prevented alexis from getting arrested for trying to openly smoke weed on the street in pittsburgh when it was still the kind of thing that got you put in prison for a few years if your skin is darker than popcorn.
steve huffman in particular is a shitter and always has been. think of that kid you knew growing up who would make up that his dad worked at SEGA and that Goku was going to be in the next Sonic game — that’s spez, still, to this day. he is “mr. namedropper.” steve, genuinely, i do not care that you saw Beyoncé at the airport.
ETA: since people are being weird about phrasing, i signed up to be a match. his alias back then was Dacvac. i literally sat in bars and watched him mod /r/pics on an iPad. believe me or don’t, i’m just some schmoe online after all.
believe me or don’t
It doesnt really matter either way but I’m inclined to believe you because you aren’t exactly going to get kudos for being close to reddit founders on the fediverse so this is more like a confession than a brag. FWIW I enjoyed the context.
Idek what reddits target audience is anymore seems to be chronically online teen girls typically on snark/fanfic social media pages are becoming the majority, all they talk about is random drama and reality shows so they arent getting banned for saying stuff lol
he had leukemia, and i signed up to donate spinal marrow for him.
if you had actually donated bone marrow, you would know that’s not how this works.
i had signed up to see if I am a match, which i would have donated if i had been selected. please show me where i mentioned actually donating bone marrow.
That sounds quite different. Wording matters, especially in times of bot posts and clout posts.
Also, no one signs up to be tested for a match with a specific person, not at those odds. So your new wording still doesn’t reflect how typisation (not sure about that word) is done.
The fuck? Yes it does, I lost a close friend to leukemia, and a ton of us went in to see if we would match with him. I don’t know where you got your info from but you %100 can do this. It works the same damn way with organ donating as well.
That sounds like it must’ve been rough. I’m sorry for your loss.
I don’t wish that shit even on people I don’t like, watching him go from a big happy guy who was 3 years from retirement to a skeleton in like 4 months was devastating. Adult leukemia is such a fucked up thing. He didn’t even know he had it until it was to late. Any time my wife and I, and his wife go out to our favorite Mexican restaurant, it’s like a nice little reminder he is with us still joking and eating the hottest salsa they make. I really miss him, but do remember the fun years we had with him. Really sucks he’s gone though.
Get your blood tested on a regular people, it might save your life.
I am sorry but you misunderstood the process. You do not check whether you match with a specific patient, but rather typisation is done to add potential donors to a larger database, from which hopefully a donor match is already available even before, because the chances for a match are so low that you can have a couple million people checked until you find a match. This is not blood groups.
Not even close, we worked with his doc and all had HLA tests done to see if we were a match for him. They also did the larger registery match list as well, but saying we didn’t is bullshit.
It seems the doc validated your feelings that you wanted to help your friend then, but also set you up for disappointment by not telling you the odds, and that you were much more likely to be a match for some complete stranger.
The hell you on about? People do that all the time.
I’m part of a big group now that is in a pool doctors all over the US can check to see if they can find a match for people, because a friend of mine died from leukemia a long time ago. They couldn’t find a match for him, but maybe I can match with someone else someday.
BTW, gonna shamelessly plug NMDP. They do good work.
See you mentioned the important bit: we get checked to be in a large database pool for potential patients. Not to match with a specific friend, because as nice as that would be, it is very unlikely to ever happen.
Jesus fucking christ, shut the fuck up.
your continued effort in this conversation is admirable and also an admission…
Interesting… Can anyone verify one way or another?
Who fucking cares?
Yes, those people who know how bone marrow type matching works, and what the odds are. Also, OC has confirmed in their response that they didn’t get to the point of a donation. And found better - albeit not entirely correct - wording for the process they allegedly signed up for.
Stop doubling down on stupid shit and admit that you fucked up. It’s not that hard.
Want to know what’s fucked? People on Reddit are openly advocating for Concentration Camps and the Mods have ID gated subs like alcoholics anonymous but if I bring up things like the leader of a sitting political party not only saying we should fund the Taliban with tax payers money but presenting it as a flagship policy for this party, I get my comment removed and my account shadow banned.
That’s where we are on Reddit right now.
Their Contributor Quality Score is basically the social media equivalent of a Social Credit Score. Not like karma, it’s a whole other system that demands you produce content for them or get shadow banned. It’s bonkers.
Jesus that’s Dystopian.
I’m not sure how that’s different at all to Lemmy. This place regularly hands out bans and removes shit all the time.
And you can Look Up everything in the Mod log and complain about the ban on other instances. Or even host your own instance.
Practically that doesn’t change the end result. You’re still just creating a new account and evading bans. You still have to deal with. Ml people right? Did bitching about it in discord do anything?
You can migrate entire instances to new domains if you want to go crazy with it.
Complaining about the ban does about as much good on Lemmy as it does on Reddit.
That said, the anti-multiaccount checks are far worse on Lemmy than on Reddit.
The difference is here it is actually a human and you can reason with them. Reddit banned me because I reported CSAM being sold on the site too often and made too much if a stink about this.
I disagree entirely for many, if not most communities. I also have my doubts about Reddit banning you for CSAM. There is more to it than that, or you just were extremely inaccurate.
I was perma banned from reddit for reporting an ICE raid… reason? Promoting race based hatred.
I’m not saying the auto bans haven’t gotten out of control. I’m just saying I don’t believe they were banned for reporting CSAM.
I’d believe it.
I mean it wouldn’t be the FIRST time an inexplicably beloved and dementia ridden Republican has funded the Taliban.
I was referring to the UK. IIRC Farage is very much a monarchist.
Subs are ID gated because of laws like the Online Safety Act in the UK. Yes I had to contact my MP about that. The government apparently care more about concerned moms than they do about the opinion of actual technical people or freedom of speech.
The government apparently care more about concerned moms than they about the opinion of actual technical people or freedom of speech.
You are the first person I have actually encountered in any discussion of the OSA who mention “concerned parents” because I don’t think they’re getting enough blame for what the OSA has done. Like they’re constantly either running articles like “The OSA would’ve saved my child’s life” or “The OSA doesn’t go far enough” and they have been the the crux of the whole shitshow from day one.
Like we know Data Collectors, Social Authoritarians, and Government Spies have been the people doing most of the leg work but I don’t think it would have passed if not for the years of “think of the children”. Even the parents of Brianna Ghey, the murdered transgender teen, is saying that “if we had the OSA, my child would be alive”, ignoring the fact the mainstream press and the government itself played a bigger role in her death than the internet ever did. The current fucking prime minister MOCKED TRANSGENDER PEOPLE in front of Brianna’s father along with the then Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.
Should? We’ve been funding al queada…
AA is Id gated? what?? I’m pretty sure I’ve just posted on that subreddit within the last month and id never give it my id. not to mention it’s fucking anonymous.
I straight up don’t believe you
Yeah, so fun fact: a lot of support group subreddits were blocked under the OSA. Some were unblocked, but the point still stands.
The reason why they got blocked is that, when you look at sections 60 through 62, it’s actually really vague and could block a lot of dark, distressing but necessary content. Like children’s charities have voiced concerns over this. A forum for single dads and forums for people with certain medical conditions in the UK have had to shut down, and some sfw subreddits have been age blocked for LGBT content.
Also, there are two parties who effectively decide what gets blocked: The website and the Government, and the Websites don’t want to get in trouble with the government so they overblock. Some people have used the OSA for propaganda purposes, for example, the OSA gives an exemption for news media, so you can talk about things like Jimmy Savile and terrorism, but Twitter blocked posts that would be legal under this exception to claim it was the government who did that.
On top of that, it’s the websites and services who have to run the age checking service, which is why a lot of sites have shutdown or geoblocked the UK, because they don’t have the money or resources. In short, the law is vague and service providers had to overblock to cover their arses.
what does any of this have to do with AA
Because some of the age gated subs included help forms for alcoholics.
Me: This video of a POS attacking a sleeping person (literally drop elbowing him in the head with the potential of snapping the neck) on the NYC subway with malicious assault says more about all of the people watching and filming while doing nothing about it than the attacker.
Reddit: You are permanently suspended from Reddit.
3 days ago.
Well, you referenced the potential death of a human which their advertisers definitely do not approve of. Luckily for them, the mods caught your horribly violent comment before it could reach the masses. The fact you were only permabanned, and not charged with a crime against humanity, is a blessing indeed!
Please be careful in the future when using words that might make someone else feel something, especially if that person (who you don’t know) might have to face an uncomfortable reality. It’s only fair that we censor genuine human expression in the name of brand image. After all, the advertisers are what’s keeping the lights on around here. If we stopped listening to their demands, god knows what kind of horrible society might emerge.
This happened to me about a week ago
And then somehow my account got banned for 3 days
And then once the ban was up Reddit let me know that they’d looked into it and found nothing concerning
Gotta love automated banning
Hey dude, he’s an attorney threatening to shoot people on the internet. If you legitimately know who he is, go see an attorney. He’s fucked and you can get some money. I am literally the only person in my immediate family who is not an attorney, and I worked in a legal-adjacent field for a long time.
🤣 ssshhhhhsh hunny, adults are talking.
Its like a microcosm of US media in general.
Lemmy has that same problem, maybe even worse since our user base is way smaller
No because almost all the accounts here are people and it is unlikely there ate many psy-ops going on here unlike Reddit.
Were you here for US election season? Because there were piles of astroturf comments pushing a don’t vote narrative, with activity vaguely correlated around Moscow’s time zone. And they all shut up and disappeared right after the election.
And you could tell the difference between the psyop trolls and the genuine tankies, because the tankies are still here doing their tankie stuff.
A short video on the subject:
Talks about ex Mods that have since either been defeated, or have just changed their names. “Cyxie”, “Gallowboob”, “Merari01”, “Siouxsie_siousv2” and “Awkwardtheturtle”.
Reddit post talking about Cyxie’s account being deleted:
https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/gk569a/cyxie_account_gone/
Fuck reddit.
Gallowboob being a mod in retrospect makes a lot of sense. Fucker was probably taking content, reposting it and deleting the original constantly.
Holy fuck the comment section of that video.
“CIA trannies”, references to Terry Davis’ “Glow in the dark n*****s”, etc. Someone mentioned Ghislaine Maxwell potentially being a mod and “wonder who all these people are IRL”, got replied with the singular word “Jews”.
Honorable mentions: “Nazi-communists”, “left-wing echo chamber” (uh why did I keep getting shown conservative and the donald when I browsed logged-out then?)
So glad to be out of that cesspool.
Me too, fuck reddit
My first Lemmy acct was banned for wrong think in a specific instance. It can be shitty here too. Not like Reddit. But don’t say certain things.
More info needed
I simply disagreed with Israel and the over all support from the Jewish community. I’m from a people of genocide. So I understand where they are coming from. But it’s an endless cycle of death if no one is willing to give up the hate. And I got banned for talking about it plainly. So I don’t try to bring it up anymore.
I’ve been called a Nazi and banned for saying I don’t automatically believe women in rape cases and pointed out it was abused.
This place is ultra ban happy and sensitive if you don’t pass the progressive purity test.
This place? Which place? Because there is no “this place” for lemmy since you can join or make many instances.
The great thing is that instances can be 10000 times more fucked than Reddit if they want. If you get banned you can just join another one.
Why is Reddit used for anything but porn these days?
It’s where people are. If you want to have any commercial success on the internet you almost need a presence on places like Reddit and Twitter
You don’t need quantity. Just quality.
for many video games it’s the primary or even only place the devs communicate
either that or twitter which is frankly an even worse cesspit
Coding also, and computer science
“Yeah but how is lemme any different?”
Because you can’t really ban someone from a lemmy instance. The userbase is the type of people to get around rules like that if they want.
Yeah, Lemmy is different, reddit is hell. Lemmy is a little irritating, but Reddit is full of cops and fascists
Digg went sideways because of “power users,” among other things.
I think we are in a much different time than the Digg days. Reddit has much more power over their users than Digg ever did. If you leave Reddit, you are leaving all your niche communities and the boatload of user created content.
I left as an active user, but if I want to see conversations about the latest episode of whatever show I’m watching, there is always an active discussion on Reddit. Or if I’m looking for some BIFL suggestions, I almost always end up on a Reddit thread from 2 years ago with exactly what I was looking for and 8 different opinions.
I am hopeful that all this stuff will slowly make its way to Lemmy, but until then, Reddit is in no danger of losing its user base.
a lot of people aren’t old enough to remember that when the digg exodus happened, reddit didn’t even have subreddits yet. it was just links on one page, and we built our little subculture in the comments of each thread. that’s why there is such a culture of commenting before reading the article (if at all) — it used to be a big, disorganized blob of chatty nonsense, much like Fark or MetaFilter were at the time too.
reddit is a lovely example of how tech companies from 1995 to 2020 fell into success and figured out what their product does later down the line. to quote homer simpson when asked what his tech company does, “we’re a website that sells computers… or… a computer that sells websites, I haven’t decided yet.”
Wow, I’m definitely old enough, but I didn’t realize that.
check it out: https://web.archive.org/web/20060117004220/http://reddit.com/
if you look at a lot of this stuff now, it’ll be assigned to a subreddit called “/r/reddit.com”
Eh. There’s more than one kind of poweruser. The “people who are too online” are very different from the “accounts that exist to leverage social media for advertisement”.
Social media thrives on the whale users who are churning out content and hungry for engagement. It goes to shit when you’ve got your front page clogged with Native Ads and other shameless marketing gimmicks.
Digg’s powerusers were often revealed to be selling their influence.
Many of these accounts weren’t just freelancers. They were set up by marketing agencies, often with the explicit support of the social media hosting firm.
Like, its in the fucking business model to sell artificial engagement and promotion.
Might not even be a bad business model per say, if the promoted material wasn’t so consistently slop.
Mrbabyman
“churning out content” aka reposting old memes
The Internet, the fediverse included, seems like it’s mostly just different buckets all containing the slop.
Lol well played
“Five websites filled with screenshots of each other”
Rest in peace, I_RAPE_CATS.
While this is true, it’s funny to watch them wrestle with the exact same problems right now. Literally on the front page of new Digg right now is converstions about fragmenting the user-base with blocks/bans, and how to establish friend groups.
Wait is digg making some kind of comeback now?
Its web 3.0 bullshit from what I remember when everyone was hyping it up on reddit.
Apparently.
One of my older Reddit accounts was blocked on several top subs for abusing the report button.
One of those super mods posted a photo of someone endangering their pet on multiple subs. The content was literally against site-wide rules but also broke sub-level rules on each of the subs it was posted. I reported the photo on each sub it was posted to separately. Unbeknownst to me at the time, that super mod was a mod of every single one of those subs. So, they had the ability to ban/block me on each one for “abuse”.
It’s kinda sad really that reddit mods get a power trip from banning people when reddit accounts are disposable unless you care about karma for some reason. I got banned site wide and from various subs multiple times and it would only take a few minutes to be up and running again with a new account. I even had a script to transfer over my subscriptions. Never got done for ban evasion either, despite having a static IP address. It got to the point where I’d create a new account at least once a month even if I wasn’t banned just to have a clean slate.
I permabanned reddit with these additions to my hosts file:
127.0.0.1 old.reddit.com
127.0.0.1 www.reddit.com
Fuck their astro-turfed corporate censorship.
It’s better to use 0.0.0.0 which cannot be routed. 127 will connect to servers on your local machine, if they happen to exist.
the advantage is that one day he might set a self signed SSL and redirect the request to libreddit
At one point while I was still on Reddit I learned that there was another site that indexed the users with the highest post and comment scores. I looked at the top of the list and saw accounts that were relentless repost monsters. I went ahead and blocked all of them, and my Reddit experience immediately improved, as I stopped seeing the exact same shit reposted over and over, day after day. Then the API-ocalypse came, and I walked away and never looked back.
Is it all that much different to Lemmy instances?
At least on Lemmy I can go create my own instance and not have corpo mods forced into it and me forcefully removed. I’d much rather have that with 4 other members than a massive community I risk being ousted from for dumb bullshit any day
100% different since one company owns all of reddit. No one owns all of lemmy.
I know there’s at least one admin that also moderates r/news. That’s how I got permbanned a second time. They don’t like it when you point out obvious bots.
You’d think Spez’s “landed gentry” would have better things to do.
So thats why Ibwas perma banned too
Hmph. As a one time mod or top mod of several “default” subs I can confirm that the image is true.
I’ve been a mod of several niche subreddits and entire reddit is absolute 100% gamed and astroturfed. Being a mod is incredibly lucrative to the point that’s full career for many mods.
In all fairness it was bound to happen and it’s similar on all social media groups. The power and lack of transparency makes it incredibly easy to start profiting of your positions even when the goal is noble at first. There’s this great podcast on cat drug black markets which perfectly illustrates this.
I find it funny seeing people complain about LLM hallucination and inaccuracy turn around and prefix
site:reddit.comto their search queries in pure, blissful ignorance.I remember there was a guy making 6 figures in the CSGO community by posting ads for gambling sites disguised as memes.
