I like how our society places so much responsibility on private companies to manage communities, really what could go wrong. Just institutionally protected employees that are nothing more than power tripping Reddit mods because Reddit hired a decent amount of them and put them in high positions, solidifying the toxic moderator culture they already had.

I’ve seen the admins go on really petty vendettas against people for just mentioning them in threads, shadow banning them for the dumbest reasons. Just know your ban doesn’t mean you failed in any way, this company is just morally bankrupt, as are many other companies like it in several industries.

While there’s certainly a lack of content (and by extension diverse voices) compared to Reddit here, there’s definitely less corporate manipulation. It’s a nice palate cleanser of that gross astroturfing fiefdom.

These were my old accounts, they are forcing a password change, probably in hopes of me clicking their referral links and self-identifying my current IP with my old accounts. Shady behavior in any case.

My current Reddit account I carefully curated and built is unbanned but associated to a different email, but my primary email is actually receiving new emails as of this week that my old accounts are permabanned. That alone is not noteworthy, but over the past couple months some of my other alts have had their passwords reset at random, with emails asking me to verify. These are not phishing emails, but actually from Reddit. I think they’re on to me and trying to get a confirmation, but not clicking those links so they can do their IP identification. Sociopathic, vindictive, people run Reddit apparently. Like sorry for dissenting and calling out specific employees that have bullied me, your operation is surely not corrupt. /s