• eleitl@lemm.ee
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    4 hours ago

    I read only one community on old.reddit.com, with VPN on. The moment they start asking for login there will be the moment my last contact with that site goes away.

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    9 hours ago

    Speak the following sentences clearly to your phone’s microphone:

    I did not “silence” with that woman.
    I am not a crook.
    Poop in Spanish means shit.
    Shit in Spanish could be anything.

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    “Extra Verification steps”

    I know how large social media companies operate. This is all about increasing the value of Reddit users to advertisers. The goal is to have a more accurate user database to sell them.

    Zuckerberg literally brags to corporations about how good their data is on users:

    https://www.facebook.com/business/ads/performance-marketing

    Here, Zuckerberg tells corporations that Instagram can easily manipulate users into purchasing shit:

    https://www.facebook.com/business/instagram/instagram-reels

    Always be wary of anything available for free.

    There are some quality exceptions (CBC, VLC, The Guardian, Linux, PBS, Wikipedia, Lemmy, ProPublica) but, by and large, “free” means they don’t care about you. You are just a commodity that they sell.

    Facebook, Google, X, Reddit, Instagram… Their goal is keep people hooked to their smartphone. The recipe is very simple. You give them small dopamine hits (likes, upvotes) followed by a small break with outrageous content/emotional content. Then another dopamine hit.

    Keep them hooked, gather their data, and sell them ads.

    The people who know that best are former top executives :

    https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/oct/05/smartphone-addiction-silicon-valley-dystopia

    https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/01/business/addictive-technology.html

    https://www.today.com/parents/teens/facebook-whistleblower-frances-haugen-rcna15256

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    21 hours ago

    Reddit still isn’t able to fight back against those simple repost bots that copy old posts with the same title. That should be easy to detect.

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    23 hours ago

    Sounds like Reddit wants to ensure that 90%+ of all traffic gets blocked.

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      That was pretty much always an option. Just a setting. The problem isn’t mods, though some of them are part of the symptom.

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    It already blocks me from reading access for some time because of VPN. I have to use libreddit on the web or redreader on mobile to access. This made me lurk reddit less, never had an account there anyway.

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    So they will break the system more. I opened my Reddit account and shadow-banned after two days later and didn’t even receive any reason for that. I swear Reddit will be better place if they just stop to alter it.

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      Well if they didn’t like your content and they were able to finger print you, they won’t allow you to create a new account unless you get a clean slate.

      Except now you can’t really get a reddit account unless they can ID you

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        So they probably don’t have classical music taste. Because I didn’t even do anything else wandering in music communities. Such a shame. At least we have Lemmy.

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          I think in that case then, you just caught up in their AI model tools tbh. It would interesting to know what triggered it.

          Alternatively you might have been reported by malicious actors but again they usually dont bother on less there is some thing controversial they didn’t like.

          Either way, fedi is the way. I don’t think we have a classical music community so there is an opportunity there if you got it in you to mod.

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            Yes, probably I have caught to AI. Then reported for some days but they didn’t care and I deleted my account.

            Also yes I already created a classical music community. It’s little but I’m happy with it.