Reddit seems to have introduced sitewide AI moderation bots that are sweeping up users and outright banning them, without warning or explanation, for crimes like including links in their posts. This has started to hit some pretty well-known artists in r/comics.
It’s inconsistent and unpredictable - which makes it worse, since you don’t know what the rules are. As companies like Reddit give up more and more control to unaccountable machines, this kind of thing is getting more common.
Reddit has always had kind of a strange relationship with contributors and what is often called “self-promotion”. On one hand, it wants Content… But it can’t seem to decide where it wants the content to come from.
It’s nice that we’ve got alternative spaces like this.
Anyway, have some links:
- More comics:
- Patreon
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oh my god I missed it on my first scroll, I can’t believe you’ve done this
This is shit, yet their banning people has always been inconsistent and unpredictable without knowing why. I got banned 3 years ago with absolutely no explanation why - just “your banned”. When I did the auto-appeal I just got a response “sorry, your banned.” Never a word as to why so fuck Reddit.
Is that loss²
Missed opportunity to make the actual comic loss to get loss^2. Or lossception if you prefer.
So, honest question, if creators want to ditch Reddit, where do they go besides here? Fediverse ain’t that big yet.
For comic artists, there already seems to be a decent and growing community here. I’m a musician. There is (used to be?) a vibrant community on Reddit for songwriters, home recording enthusiasts, amateur producers…and it was a good place to network. I won’t go back to Reddit for any reason, so where do I go? Those communities here don’t have enough users to be active. I’ve tried.
I’m sharing my stuff wherever I think I can find an audience… Reddit will be included until it becomes untenable. (I exclude Xitter from that because I don’t like Nazis.)
Don’t think on a where to go permanently basis. Just go where your target people are, forget about how a specific platform gamifies their algorithm. Subscribers and followers, upvotes don’t matter in the slightest anyway. Make sure, instead, to always refer people to a place where they can engage directly with you. Either listening to your music, buying it, buying merch, or getting some interaction. But don’t put much stock on platforms, it’s there for the corpos, not for you.
In short: just make another reddit account, because this is where most of your readers/viewers are.
Unfortunately, yes. Each person has to establish their own ethical framework for what they consider proper or not. But there’s no two ways about it. You either show up on the place where people gather, or no one will know about your thing. A good way, for example, is to make it clear that the main channel is the fediverse, mastodon or whatever. Like I said, have a hub somewhere everyone can arrive to and know immediately where to find your stuff. There are degrees of interaction, you don’t have to tie your entire private life and existence to one account in one platform, but you don’t build a community sitting alone in your own bedroom, no matter how comfy and ethically safe it is. You have to go outside and meet people where they are.
Hm… You know, dustyData, that really explains why so many projects now have a Discord server as their primary channel.
This is so ironic, considering that linking to other websites used to be reddit’s entire point.
meanwhile they cosy up to advertisers and introduced hiding post history so no sane person can tell whether somone is a bot from their history.
Something like 90% of reddit users are bots. I wish i could find the link but someone did a little investigating and that is the number he found. They also found that most the new users are from India.
Those numbers will vary a lot between individual subreddits.
Reddit crappy automoderation had been known in the Spanish speaking communities for years.
“Negro” in Spanish means black as the colour, but the AEO may interpret it as that some countries who do not usually speak Spanish may use it as a racial slur.
This is no joke, once they auto-ban me for talking about how a black coloured wall would hide the grime better.
this is lies to cover up the racism problem in the hispanic reddit community.
we banned you cus youre even racist against walls!
best regards
reddit automod
beep boop
Reported
it’s not just AI Mod’s it’s Human mods. Especially when you have one group of PRO OS users in a sub, they can flame a OS but if you try and tell them of there crappy os they ban you
Beep is spez confirmed
Got a three day ban by the automod, just because I referenced a joke Russel Howard made on taskmaster, where he (and so I) used the words “yellow peril”.
So just mentioning those words is apparently racist…
I got banned for saying “what’s this bitch’s address, I’m going to drive over there and kick her in the cunt”. Regarding Johanna Harrer, a nazi doctor who wrote books about abusing babies to make them compliant. She’s been dead for 38 years but I’m banned for threatening violence and trying to doxx her and using the c-word. I’m not going back.
I mod a very very niche emotional support forum, as a community service. It’s been absolutely blasted with spam since they went to AI moderation. The whole site is structured and run by volunteers. I don’t see them coming back from this.
I’ve posted this before, but I’ve got banned twice for inciting violence on posts that there not inciting violence at all. In both cases, I was banned when my browser refreshed to the posted screen. Instant ban. No human saw my post. So I deleted my account. Seems like they feel that they are too big to fail and are just trying to clean up its userbase before it goes public.
I was banned for blaming the victim when I said Israel should stop genocide. Don’t know how they made that thought process.
Yup. Same. The first one I had actually indicated I was legitimately worried that the situation would lead to violence. Instead it flagged me as advocating for violence. The exact opposite of what I’d said.
I got banned for violence saying something about shooting coyotes in a post about coyotes being a problem.
Seems like they feel that they are too big to fail and are just trying to clean up its userbase before it goes public.
that is thier end goal, except it kinda backfired a little now AI is so pervasive and theres very little interaction on that site.
That’s not a healthy environment for creators.
always send them a link to the fediverse instead of trying to fix a broken platform.
Post over here! We would love the comics!
Fediverse people are fun and actual people. Well other than the furries.
I do post here! I don’t have my whole archive here, but I started !loveandhex@lemmy.ca recently and crosspost from there.
Subbed. Thanks! Its a great comic. Didnt realize it was you!
sounds like loveandhex needs another subscriber
Nothing to see here
Am I blocked or something!?
Communities aren’t populated automatically. Maybe your instance hasn’t fetched any posts from there yet?
I appreciate the info!
Nothing from that community has federated to your instance yet. Visit it from the host instance, and you see plenty of recent activity: https://lemmy.ca/c/LoveAndHex
Someone from your instance has to subscribe to the community. I believe that causes future posts to start getting federated to your instance.
Thanks. There’s still so much about the fediverse I need to learn…
I don’t know, I haven’t blocked anyone. Different apps might render community links differently?
Plus 1. I support anyone fleeing Reddit.
indeed, some of us are things rather than people ;3
