Dead reddit theory
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people might not even notice right away that they were shadowbanned.
It's feeling very strongly like their ideal platform has millions of shadowbanned users, or more correctly, millions of users in their own instanced versions of reddit, populated entirely by AI creating the impression of community, influencing and shaping the attitudes, behavior, political beliefs and shopping habits of entire nations.
The massive influx of bots pretending to be humans doesn't really bode well for the future of social media.
the most recent ones, palintir was blatantly obvious, i dont know if reddit has done anything about these subreddits that PALINTIR is using right now,
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The engagement farming is reaching facebook levels.
wrote last edited by [email protected]that is what reddit is trying to achieve, become a facebook clone. matter of time they push the verification that FACEBOOK uses to make accounts, if they get"suspicious"
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Always did not like Reddit..
As an ex newgen reddit user reddit banned me for literally no reason.. Did not receive any reason, just some strange invisible ban (I could log in to account, do anything and etc and it would say Server Error)..
Also this karma sh**..I had an alt account, I accidentally upvoted my main account's post and got shadow banned. I didn't realize for 3 months when I was like "why the fuck does no-one reply to my comments and does not even downvote let alone upvote my posts". But that was like 4 years ago.
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I had an alt account, I accidentally upvoted my main account's post and got shadow banned. I didn't realize for 3 months when I was like "why the fuck does no-one reply to my comments and does not even downvote let alone upvote my posts". But that was like 4 years ago.
literally same but I did not like myself bru
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Random Rant:
I feel like reddit died after they banned all the "unmoderated" communities. All the posts became sanitized. Now reddit is adding AI and streaks and NFTs to keep people on a platform that has no more content. -
I fully appreciate the advice, and I have been hammering the block button, but every time I do a small part of my faith in humanity chips away like a crumbling old statue the represented a forgotten empire.
I am sad that so many people are unthinking, unfeeling, or deeply unserious where it matters. But here we are, forced to prune and further the atomization of our failed world because there is no alternative. There's no arguing nor reasoning with people who interact with others only to address their inner feelings and not with care or consideration that we share an objective reality we have to agree on.
With AI and immersive experiences, this is all going to get even worse.
Talk about dramatic. Bro just block people and get on with your life.
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Then why the fuck is there a report button?
For the sub rules.
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The worst part is the Contributor Quality Score, which is the subjective version of karma.
If you're not a bot, then you have to spend a lot of real time producing acceptable content to get to do anything YOU want to do. You literally have to grind Reddit to be able to post in some subs, even if your account is older than the hills and has positive karma.
First time I'm hearing of the CQS. Wow, just wow. Dystopian shit.
New account experience on Reddit in 2025:
- Create an account;
- Post something on a subreddit that has AutoMod configured to instantly remove posts/comments from new accounts, accounts with low karma or accounts with low CQS;
- Get a site-wide shadowban because your first contribution was removed;
- If you're unaware of shadowbans, keep using the site, leaving comments, thinking nobody replies to you because you're not that interesting;
- If you're aware of them, keep trying to appeal with zero effect.
Fuck Steve Huffman and fuck his enshittified site.
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Fun fact: the "Enshittification" article on Wikipedia has Reddit among the examples.
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Does changing your MAC address help? Using a browser instead of a phone app?
If an app can scrape phone info without prompting for extra permissions, you can bet the app dev is scraping that data and storing it alongside session data for security purposes.
Web browsers are much more sandboxed. Still plenty of ways to fingerprint tho -
browser canvas size, fingerprinting, they look at your screen resolution, your browser size, the current version, if your browser is minimized,,,etc. there are ways to hide that, but you probably have to go to a different forums how to do it.
I heard about that from my darkweb days. It's amazing how much of a fingerprint everyone leaves. I decided that if I have to fire up TOR and encryption to talk to redditors who are often bots anyway, it's probably a dead platform
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First time I'm hearing of the CQS. Wow, just wow. Dystopian shit.
New account experience on Reddit in 2025:
- Create an account;
- Post something on a subreddit that has AutoMod configured to instantly remove posts/comments from new accounts, accounts with low karma or accounts with low CQS;
- Get a site-wide shadowban because your first contribution was removed;
- If you're unaware of shadowbans, keep using the site, leaving comments, thinking nobody replies to you because you're not that interesting;
- If you're aware of them, keep trying to appeal with zero effect.
Fuck Steve Huffman and fuck his enshittified site.
I recently started what's probably my 15th account for a single topic. Same exact thing happened to me.
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Feels like some apps a speeding the enshitification, before the beta is even public the app is dead from AI bots
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Same reason people never bothered to do a proper search when all knowledge on the internet was indexed on forums - people can't be bothered, and want another person to find information for them before they make a real effort to find it themselves.
This. If it isn't 0 effort, people won't do it.
