spez uses AI-assisted profiling to have mods determine if a member’s content is ideologically-biased and make comments about violence, and usually anyone using violent language even casually is marked for a permaban. So by this rule a lot were permabanned, many of them progressives.
What in your country/area is totally normal but visitors get excited for?
This is so mundane fried chicken for me, just comfort food in the Philippines, but no thanks to some influencers, tourists flock to this specific fast food restaurant expecting it to be some culinary treasure.
It became slop ever since Schwartz died and spez took over and started turning it into a Trump/Musk shill machine.
I used to love Reddit.
I was never invested in it, but then Facebook was overrun by right-wing nutcases so forcing me to take refuge.
Even before I got banned for criticizing spez’ idols, already the country sub where I once hanged around was getting filled with doomers, supposedly smart young people but being assholes to anyone lower than them.
Why? Why does this make sense to them? Who are they serving ads to?
The major subreddits – the ones frequently visible on r/all – are filled with bots now powered by the same AI which the techbros are throwing money into, and then use all that information to simulate online human behavior and content. Already Xitter is also plagued by this AI morass, many of them with Arabic or Indian names.
Matter of time before they start reinstating previously banned political subreddits, and let the fucking Kluxers march in.
It used to be a good system until spez realised the importance of engagement in social media, and then karma became a dopamine-inducing instrument to keep users on the site.
Of course that’s what sells – being engaged as much as playing an MMORPG.
That given enough karma, the account can then be sold to anyone with money.
progressive
Was, before Schwartz died. That the more politicized popular subreddits (as opposed to niche hobby subs) are specifically targeted for being filled with right-leaning content.
Most of those ideas are not feasible with a very low budget you want because eventually rot will get to the hard drive and thus making the contents unreadable. So – depending on what you want to preserve – it’s either writable media or printed out in acid-free paper or in microdot negative film, and of those methods, only print media – written, typed, from a copier, or with a laser printer – might as well be cheap.
In the subreddits that have anything to do with politics and/or lambasting right-wingers, any comment or post with even the mildest language criticizing a certain controversial personality now gets a fucking instaban. They don’t care how you defend yourself, a spade is a spade to them.
Otherwise some mods do tend to be on a powertrip.
basically bootlicking just to keep his reputation intact… among other techbros.