Reddit seems oddly quiet these last few days. Its kinda eerie. Posts that would normally generate a ton of comments just have 2 or 3 comments. It feels a bit like a calm before the storm.
Anyone know whats up?
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probably them banning bots again, they purge alot.
They banned all the legit users, so now it’s just bots.
50% prior to the purges were already bots, now it’s probably skewed higher percentage for bots. Also with the invasion of New bots
If I were to guess their utilization of AI to deal out bans has come back to bite them in the ass. Anything that remotely suggest protesting for example will result in an automatic ban. Anything that could potentially go against the grain of ad revenue will result in a ban. Moderators fearing for their “job” are also way more heavy handed and they were previously.
Thus they’re gradually killing off their userbase and instead what you’ll find are bots and agenda pushing accounts in their place.
Shadowbans , are probably the reason behind this, once you get shadow banned it’s next to impossible to use another acc, without them banning you immediately, the only way to use it if you have a different, device, IP and browser to evade their detection. As opposed to actual sitewide bans, that they still allow you to use another account, provided you don’t interact with the sub you were banned in.
The purges this time around were different, they were just linking accounts and banning them all at once now. Also from another forum, I read they got better at detecting the methods that they were using to evade bans.
Bots. I presume they’re gearing up and are about to do something massive soon.
It’s busily dying. Activity and engagement has been falling for years, but only recently reached tumbleweed territory.
I mooched over there recently. Saw a post in /r/UKPolitics that looked interesting. The overwhelming majority of comments were by frothing right wingers who want to see all immigrants drowned at sea.
I unsubbed.
Everyone I know, including myself has been banned and they will not allow new accounts, and many subs refuse to allow posts from accounts with no posting history, which means no new users.
All I can guess is that they paid for some awesome AI moderation.
Not my experience at all, but I hang out in niche subreddits only.
I will say that I am noticing a trend where if I sort top posts by year, damn near everything is 10-12 months old. Between that and just a general lack of good info on recent topics, it’s clear a lot of the subject matter experts have moved on. To Discord, maybe.
Their indiscriminate AI ban hammer with no real appeal system is probably a large part of it as well. They have likely IP banned a large portion of the real humans that previously used the site.
I used it for over 11 years and was a top contributor or whatever before randomly getting axed for no reason
i noticed it alot on the shadowban sub, people are still get shadowban for no reason, additionally they sometimes do large purges at once. Their nov-april purges was pretty much nonstop, which was unprecedented, they probably realized they got rid of too many actual users, and is trying to hide the numbers right now. Theres also significant amount bot/ai posting reposting old threads or new propaganda
