The mods at r/popculture pointed it out. And then the screenshot above.
The subreddit drama
Spez getting a little nervous?
He’s getting a little power boner.
Reddit became a clownshow 2 years ago, how are people even still enjoying the place?
It’s still the only major community hub for loads of hobbies and such. As an example: the Magic the Gathering community here has 1300 members and almost no activity.
pokemon,yugioh, mtg are sitll all on Reddit. pokemon specifically the card game has direct line of communication(sort of) with the devs, it will be impossible/difficult to convince them to switch here. theres also certain companies that uses thier specific subs too.
It’s been limping for a while, but the momentum was huge to begin with. The niche subreddits still had good participation, not great, but good enough. These latest shenanigans might be the final tipping point, though.
there are niche subs there i vist that usually cant replicate somewhere else, and people are addicted to the news and political posts.
For a brief few years we had communication platforms that could topple dictatorships but now here we are.
Yeah, now we have platforms that can topple democracies
Victual the affluent.
So do we all sign back into our old reddit accounts to say “Luigi” until permaban?
Masticate the bourgeoisie
I have a suspicion that I was followed by a mod who banned me and accused me of “throwing a tantrum” and muting me from contacting him again when I asked him to justify his ban for “promoting violence” when I very plainly hadn’t. I kept getting bans for the same thing across various other subs for similar non promotion of violence, rather laughing about the idea of a politician possessed by the ghost of GG Allin ruining their life with antics, and for harrassment for some post that wasn’t even deleted when I got my ban, so I have no idea what it even was.
No time for that kind of nonsense. The “you’re in trouble for liking the wrong comments” step is the final step into full mean girl pettiness. Reddit has become an HOA.
some large subs can crossban you, if the bots of a specific sub detects you went into a controversial sub they deemed as “brigrade threat”. i once commented in joe rogan was immediately banned from 2 subs. eventhough the people on that sub, criticises joe roegan more than it supports him.
Honestly, that sounds like a blessing in disguise.
I mean this is political censorship. Just plain and simple. Well done reddit. And i am against violence. But the thing that touches me the wrong way is the idea that not guilty until proven completely got lost in this case. And dont get me started on the united healthcare topic. Ia this still allowed on reddit or will it get shadow banned?
You think Trump is innocent until proven guilty? Because that’s what the post is about. Luigi is only mentioned in the title, in quite poor taste imo
A major difference, even so, is that Trump has several felon convictions and impeachments.
I lost my 14 year old Reddit mod account. That modded a million plus subreddit. Because I made a joke that McConnell was close to death. Which he is. But they banned me before having to offer me stock options. Cunts.
reddit is making way for right wing-only content, they allow “other side content” to drive up engagement.
Remember what killed Digg? Sarah Palin super users getting Republican content to the top of Digg. That will just kill Reddit off sooner.
People often think it was the encryption key controversy that broke Digg. Nah, the massive vote brigades and cliques operating blatantly on the open were the first nail. The second nail was Digg redesign with the stated goal of “power users are good ackshually and no way this will go wrong”
If random ordinary users don’t have any power on the site anymore - won’t be heard and will just be punished for ordinary actions - what has Reddit really become?
Why was your 14 year old a reddit mod?
“check for violence” for any comments that contain the word “Luigi”.
This is gonna make Nintendo retro-garming discussions really awkward.
as if Mods will spend time to check every single “luigi” comment, they arnt going to be bothered by, they will just auto-ban or use a bot to give a “Reason” to ban.
IRL Luigi’s Mansion
Normies will have to face the censorship they prefer to ignore
We all know what’s gonna happen next. The Admins will lock out the remaining mod and take it over for being “unmoderated” and install their own puppets like nothing ever happened.
It’s that whole “slash funding, complain it isn’t working, privatize” approach on a smaller scale.
Damn I thought reddit would stay save from the new usa censorship. Next step will ban liberal or anti trump posts and communities for sure. Seems like I moved to Lemmy at just the right time.
I don’t mean to be belligerent, but what made you think that?
Well, maybe I was just in the wrong reddit spaces to notice. I didn’t see any occasion (or article) that mentioned censorship like it’s happening on Twitter. Even things that are commonly censored in social media like posts about death and suicide were not censored. I’d love to know more if this was happening outside my bubble.
Probably because culturally reddit has historically been aligned with the US narrative. The haven’t needed heavy handed censorship.
Given how much spez mainlines Musk’s farts, how is any of this a surprise to you?
I guess I was just unaware of spez’ opinions and political alignment. It will just solidify my decision to dump American social media all together.
he kinda made that know like 2 years ago, when musk bought twitter, he started to “polishing his knob and trump” around that time.
This is awesome. Are they going to start banning any reference to the SuperMario Bros IP, now?
e.g.
“This guy is looking more and more like Bowser every day, someone ought to do something about it”
“Princess peach has had it, time to go get the parasol”
“I’m sick of these motherfucking goombas on this motherfucking Earth”
Luigi is a hero and should be honored as such.
In Smash.
Everybody log into your reddit accounts and post “Luigi” everywhere you can.
Why don’t they just say what they really want? They want you to be docile, not challenge the echo chamber, and upvote everything and smile like an idiot. I’ve learned this lesson and pretty much just block all ragebait subs and mostly sit quietly in the corner. Just watch the ads like a good data point.
they dont want to be the ones saying it, they use through thier right wing propaganda arms to do it.
Luigi Luigi. Luigi Luigi Luigi. Luigi, Luigi Luigi hahaha. Luigi Luigi.
Refreshing to see a comment like this. I was dumbfounded when I opened the Reddit thread this morning and found NONE of this. The Reddit of Old is quite dead. Long live the Reddit of Whatever the Fuck this is; or, better yet, platforms like Lemmy.
Fuck king Krasnov, hail luigi
they enshittified themselves when they enforced the new forever scrolling feature of posts on the site.
The entire stuff going on is too stupid for me. I was using Lemmy for lurking and Reddit for other shit. I’m staying here now.
