> Nestler also suggested that this is an issue of personal responsibility, writing that “communities should honor the expectations they set – public communities should remain accessible to all; private communities should remain private.”<p>By that logic--functioning as a champion of casual visitors--shouldn't Reddit start being responsive when a moderation team gets taken over by a new clique and starts banning most of the regulars?<p>As a personal side-gripe: Their anti-spam/appeals process is also broken: A frequent account in good standing for over a decade can get l shadowbanned (including all comments anybody else ever made in reply), have the appeal <i>granted</i>, and then <i>nothing is fixed</i> and there's no way to contact anybody because the appeals page falsely claims the account is normal.
Dupe: <<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41698762">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41698762</a>><p>Also covered at the <i>Verge</i> (via an earlier, low-traction, HN submission):<p><<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41699483">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41699483</a>>
Moderators that ban users without due cause simply because they don’t like the viewpoint being brought forward will still be able to ban users anyway. These mods wont be suspended but rather be part of the Reddit gang who are in alliance to do what the Reddit lords want them to do.<p>The start of malice
I don’t see what the point of Reddit is anymore. Ever since 2016, the site has undergone a series of massive changes - purges of various subreddits, consolidation of moderator control, aggressive moderation/censorship polices, and a user hostile design. It’s an echo chamber and propaganda machine, precisely because no different opinions are allowed to exist or gain popularity due to the dictatorial control of site admins and mods. Everyone hates on X/Twitter but it allows a far more honest discussion than Reddit.
So what’s the next Reddit? Like, there are tons of projects working on twitter replacements, but is there anything with any kind of steam for a federated discussion forum?
I'm always curious why, since we have usenet, people keep using Reddit...<p>The quid, the platform way to attract people offering NOTHING better than someone else it's the key to milk people...
The problem with censorship it makes you feel so good for being so rigtous for doing it. But it's like eating at McDonald's, do it once and it might feel filling. Do it all the time and you'll smell like their French fries, and people will start avoiding you. Someone posted some stats on 4chan and in one of their top reddits only a handful of people were online. So at this point Reddit might be bots talking to bots being censored by bots.
I got permanently banned from Reddit for saying <i>Hamas must be destroyed</i>. The site is absolute garbage and I can’t wait until whatever’s next takes over.