Lots of people have been banned, across all their accounts, with no recourse, and new accounts suffer the same fate

My fiancée lost over a third of her followers overnight, and asked a mod she knows what was happening.

She was told that anyone who had been banned, for any reason whatsoever was being indiscriminately purged, with device fingerprinting and other mechanisms used to keep them from finding a way back in

Apparently it has been happening in stages, so that’s why there are waves of mass-bans

Reddit seems determined to cut themselves off at the knees, so here’s hoping that Digg and Lemmy can shine and learn from the mistakes of Reddit

  • theneverfox@pawb.social
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    4 days ago

    I can only think they’ve decided to change course and go all in on manufacturing consent… Remove all the real users who might spot a bot and use LLMs to say whatever you like