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FourWaveforms@lemm.ee 6 days agoI posted stuff about politics and my account suddenly couldn’t comment. Weird error messages, no actual communication from Reddit about what or why or how long. Decisions about functionality are being made in meetings by people who are absolutely not interested in the users as anything but things whose only value is whether they can be monetized.
ameancow@lemmy.world 6 days ago
I experimented a few times with throwaway accounts and yeah, they’re locking or shadowbanning people just for engaging with politics or social issues. They don’t want humans influencing these topics, they want people to read what the bots are saying without distraction.
TangledHyphae@lemmy.world 6 days ago
They sent me a warning of being flagged and monitored because I upvoted a comment about Luigi. That’s how cooked reddit is now.
FourWaveforms@lemm.ee 6 days ago
This is the exact arc of enshittification that Cory Doctorow described. Reddit used to be great up to a few years ago, but it’s clear that the board is in full-on vampire mode, and they’re going to bleed it dry until it’s time to parachute.
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