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Reddit bought giant ads in Paris, urging people to join

"Come make friends on Reddit"

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Reddit is the most new-user-unfriendly site I have ever been to. You've got to farm an unknown amount of karma before you can post or comment in subreddits. There's a reason I'm at Lemmy now. Fuck Reddit. (Also, 4chan is a toilet. The occasional nuggets of good stuff aren't worth trawling through pages of shitposts for.)
- reddit recently became hostile to new users, and inactive users(users that suddenly decide to use thier old accounts to comment) they just shadowban most of them now. the only people ive seen that succesful are the ones that are using other methods(not vpn) to hide thier device, fingerprinting, IP adress etc. even this is temporary, since reddit is also catching up to the other methods.
  
  Reddit after banning literally everyone: "WE DID IT! WE SAVED REDDIT!"
  
  That's funny cause all but one of my alts was banned, which so happened to be the only account I didn't use the same email address for. So I figured that email is the only tracking method they use. I've had no issue making new accounts under different address.
  
  Not just an email address and IP address, but also knowing what browser and even user behavior, and banning the alt account 30 minutes after the main account being permabanned. The fuck they were possibly using.
  
  IDK then. Guess I got lucky. Either way, I don't use reddit anymore. Even gave up on my niche subs.
  
  were using the same IP address, my last account is shadowbanned, after the great purge where they targetalled peoples multiple accounts.
- It's worse than ever. Once you work your way up to being able to say anything - BAN! It's more of an echo chamber than ever before.
  
  They don't even let you see what you were banned for. Links to a comment that doesn't exist within your ban notification
  
  AI bans dont tell you that your what you were banned for, its always the generic "you have violated mutliple violations, on your ACCOUNTS" message. they also use AI moderation to shadowban people too, which i think is much more severe than the sitewide banning. they originally shadowban people for using ban evasion accounts, but now they are abusing to ban anyone indiscirminately(aside from a selected group of users).
  i think reddit also gatekeep new users, and inactive users.
  
  They are carefully curating their membership so it's more MAGA-friendly. They're turning it into Twitter.
  
  Facebook, because reddit starting blocking the words fb or facebook, so they know people are attributing reddit to fb.
- The good gteen texts always end up on other platforms anyway.
  
  And get reposted for decades to come
- Moved here and haven't looked back.
  I do keep a Reddit account that is strictly used for informational/support type stuff (i.e. "help me figure out what type of widget I should buy for this task"). I avoid anything controversial on that account.
- you have summoned me?
- Isn't 4chan dead and gone?
  
  Nah, still alive and unwell
- The fucking acronyms and in-jokes don't help, either.

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