Lots of people here keep mentioning that most shadowbans were caused by things they said, usually related to politics, but I've been instantly shadowbanned (and then suspended) after posting a comment about gnats fungus in the houseplants subreddit that, as far as I know, had nothing to do with politics.

Before this, it happened after posting a comment about digital art (which again had nothing to do with politics); so the question still remains: What is the point of all this besides making people frustrated and disappointed?

Probably why they are banning so many REAL users at such a high rate.

LMFTFY

Battling to ensure right wing users stay at the center of the social network.

Fixed it.

"remain"? They really don't use their own service, do they?

And controlled by 15 mods.

I'm wondering if advertisers are starting to notice - that's the only thing that'll make these fuckers try to clean house. It's maybe two years since I left reddit and even then it was absolutely infested with bots. They didn't give a fuck, only cared about the IPO. But advertisers are going to care when they get lots of engagement but no customers because all the engagement is bots.

It's gotten to the point that if someone were to ask me what my super power would be if I could choose, I'd say that I'd like to be able to see what is human and what isn't when I'm online. Very boring super power, but it would make some things a lot easier.

Ironically I also lost count on how many times I was accused of being a bot near the end of my time on reddit. I wouldn't be surprised if those who accused me were bots themselves. It was just insane sometimes.

But good luck with that, Mr CEO. I'm sure you care very much about your human users on your goofy platform.

Bots dominate Reddit. This will never change. Straight lying to everyone's faces.

He said, in his best human voice.

Ah ! so when do they roll it back ?

not this human

sent from my pinephone

And we're supposed to take his word for it?

So he wants it to be a huge testing grounds with ai for anybody that uses it, got it.

Use the platform? You are talking with and training AI.

I'm guessing he hasn't browsed his own site recently then.

Probably nothing there to interest him since they banned /r/jailbait

Maybe he shouldn't have permabanned all of us power users after the Inauguration. He might have some active humans posting if he hadn't let the DOGE Goblin intimidate him into firing all of his best posters, the ones who built Reddit into what it was over the past decade. WE were Reddit, not bots, and now we're gone, and only the bots remain.

Good job, Spez.

"Trust me!" says yet another capitalist.

...with AI admin and moderation. Anyone who's been banned from reddit will tell you that, hell it says as much in the message they give you. I was banned once for saying "slava ukraini" which according to my ban was a direct attack at a minority (apparently russians are a minority according to reddit bots) and then another for asking how long before citizens begin shooting at ICE agents which, again according to reddit bots, was inciting violence on a minority (ICE agents are now also a minority according to reddit).

the vast majority of posts and comments are bots. the obvious reposts with misleading titles to generate karma to allow said bots to have enough karma to then post on various other subreddits to push whatever bullshit agenda or product they want to push.

I don't believe him.

If we don’t look for bots, there aren’t any. Sounds more republican every day. If we don’t record covid deaths, there aren’t any.

Starting when?

That ship has sailed.

Half of the comments are from bots and everyone gets autobanned.

Reddit is quite literally on autopilot

Fuck, can this loser just fuck off into oblivion already?? You got your money pig boi now piss off!

Pretty sure all the humans left Reddit like two years ago.

brands were increasingly exploring hosting a business account and posting content on Reddit to boost the likelihood of their ads appearing in the responses of generative AI chatbots

no one cares

He didn't say entirely or how many, lol. If there's 2 humans writing, it's technically still, "It's the place you go when you want to hear from people."