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  • I got shadowbannned after posting about politics.

    I never called for or celebrated violence, didn't upvote pictures of Luigi (which they have a STRANGE hard-on for) or any of that. I just posted neutrally-worded opinions.

    Shadowbanning is an abusive behavior and Reddit has been about that for well over a decade. On Twitter, you do something they don't like, they just tell you, "you have to delete this tweet and wait 12 hours" or whatever. On Reddit, your account just gets "weird" with strange error messages. You have to go digging for information on the phenomenon because they don't display a message or send an email about it.

    The cute little aliens are there to paper over the fact that Reddit's leadership has no concept of user advocacy. You're just rows in a few tables to them. You're the product that's being sold, and as far as they're concerned that gives you the same rights as any other product on a shelf.

    They are still sending me emails with cute little aliens in them, even though my account is hosed. This is how disjointed they are.

    Someone else wrote that on Reddit, the users and admins hate each other. I think that's true.

  • I saw more and more recent comment authors had the "closed account" icon before they shadowbannned me. A noticeable uptick in the last two weeks. That wasn't uncommon to see before, on comments that were years old, but I saw it more and more.

    I think they're using AI to get rid of anyone who's "too much trouble." I broke no rules as far as I know. Didn't glorify violence or bother anyone. But I did talk about politics.