I think he's ready to pull the cord and stop hearing "fuck you spez" 999 times every minute

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.

A duck?

Given that the Meshtastic team just released a fancy new color UI that they spent about a year on, I'm not sure who this is for, unless someone wants to reskin that UI to work on this monochrome display.

I'm here because I got shadowbannned for some unspecified reason.

Almost like the sites need the users more than the users need the sites.

Not just restrictive of free speech. Openly abusive to users. Shadowbanning with zero indication of what is going on, or why.

Watching Star Trek with my pants down

I watched the video on the Digg.com front page and it was a bunch of very rich dudes sitting on a couch, with the same energy and words of other very rich dudes. I don't think it will be better. They just don't live in the same world.

Heve Stuffman

Reddit is the Titanic, leadership is the iceberg, and the fediverse is the welcoming ocean.

Everything he does basically invites people to say mean stuff about him.

Perhaps he could just stop doing those things? Thinking out loud here,

Oh noooo! That's teeeeerrible! Oh noooooooo etc etc etc lol F Reddit in the A with a big rubber dick!!!!!!

I was seeing pretty normal-looking accounts disappear in greater and greater numbers in the couple of weeks before they zapped my account. Couldn't figure out why, just a lot of comments or threads only hours old, and the users were already gone. Couldn't figure it out at the time.

That's the transparency you can only have when revenue isn't in the front seat.

Theoretically, but it would only work on one instance (server), and that would put an instance in such bad odor that other instances might not want to peer with them anymore.

Ironically, it would be likely to get that instance isolated from much of the network, if not all of it. That behavior is detestable to many who came here.

Update: Created a new account (there are two subs I still want to follow... obviously any others are a lost cause) and the account is half-broken. It can apparently comment, but the profile and my avatar won't load.

I'll leave it for a few days and see if it improves, but I'm not hopeful. I don't think I'll bother trying to use Reddit for general purposes unless they get a better CEO. By that time, my guess is that Lemmy and the new Digg will have vacuumed away enough sane users that Reddit will never recover.

They never needed to redirect to do that in the first place. It's probably just done for convenience. Websites quietly tracking outgoing links has been technically possible since the '90s.

Once I got past the "college student w/ first mustache" phase it lost its appeal.

There is no central control, which means there's no CEO to influence into doing ghastly shit to the users. It's basically one step up from the non-federated Internet forums of old.