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  1. No Reddit shills or trolls. But if you have a good argument for why Reddit should live, we'll hear you out.
  2. Try to be civil and intelligent. Be angry at Reddit, not each other.
  3. Provide evidence as much as possible without doxxing or harassing people.
  4. Should probably avoid linking directly to Reddit. Use archive.today and archive.org links.

Will add more rules as needed.

If you're concerned that your post might be astroturfed/brigaded by pro-reddit individuals, give us mods a heads up beforehand, and we'll try to monitor the thread.

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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 
 

A while back, someone made a post on an AITAH type subreddit, then updated it saying it was generated with AI. Like 3/4 of the comments left after the update were responding to the story as if there wasn't a big bold THIS STORY IS FAKE update at the top. I've been trying to find this post again for weeks, but no variation of "reddit AITAH AI generated post" offers anything useful on any search engines. Am I remembering wrong? Did I dream this up???

UPDATE: Thank you phlegmy for finding the post!

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cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/60259940

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/27610195

Summary

Reddit shares have dropped 50% from their February peak, when the stock had soared over 500% from its $34 IPO price last March.

Much of the early enthusiasm came from AI-related deals allowing Reddit’s content to be used for training models, but recent doubts about long-term growth in the AI sector have dimmed that optimism.

Analysts remain skeptical and some call the stock “super overvalued,” noting Reddit still is not making any money.

Market uncertainty and early investor sell-offs continue to weigh on Reddit and the broader tech sector.

Non-paywall link

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/27666716

Just thought it was funny

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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by Blaze to c/[email protected]
 
 

To disable it, on new Reddit, click the bell to open inbox and then "Mark all as read". Click the cog to go to notification settings and disable all or send to inbox. Go to community notifications to disable subreddit notifications.

If you are using old reddit redirect you can use these links https://www.reddit.com/notifications https://www.reddit.com/settings/notifications

https://old.reddit.com/r/Enhancement/comments/1jlo6y4/can_i_make_the_notification_area_with_the_bell_go/ https://old.reddit.com/r/Enhancement/comments/1jlo6y4/can_i_make_the_notification_area_with_the_bell_go/

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cross-posted from: https://fedia.io/m/[email protected]/t/1986569

This is a Peertube exclusive video where I'm just ranting about Reddit.

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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by Blaze to c/[email protected]
 
 

[email protected] if you want to help to promote Lemmy/Mbin/Piefed

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cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/59705025

Heise blacklisted

The post

After Trump's decree: fight for US funding for Tor, F-Droid and Let's Encrypt

Censored, all comments locked.

The removal reason

Site is NOT privacy-friendly since it requires agreeing to allow them to use tracking cookies on end device for personalized add and content. Now blacklisted.  ......... Please use a credible source, and try to link to the original author’s work, not a blog trying to steal their thunder (or clicks).

Why this is bullshit

This is not a normal removal message. Most of this removal reason is from a template, the portion including "Now blacklisted" was manually added and has never been used before.

Heise is based in Germany, where the best privacy laws (the GDPR) are enforced strictly. If this site is blacklisted, then any site can be blacklisted.

"Please link to a credible source" is part of the original community rules, and maybe the moderator who edited the message forgot to remove it, because Heise is credible.

US border security questions are suppressed

The post

Traveling into the US with an iphone: question about border security  [question tag] ....... So I've read that you should delete any apps that may have anti-Trump content (social media, WhatsApp, etc.), but even if you factory reset your phone, all the phone messages are still there, right? ........ Is there a way to save text messages in the cloud and have them NOT on your phone (and restore them later)?  ......... Maybe just traveling with a burner phone is the only way.  ......... I just saw two stories of American citizens being detained at airports and ICE searching their phones for anti-Trump stuff.

Censored, all comments locked.

The removal reason

Your submission could be seen as being unreliable, and/or spreading FUD concerning our privacy mainstays, or relies on faulty reasoning/sources that are intended to mislead readers. You may find learning how to spot fake news might improve your media diet.

Why it's bullshit

Their post is based on legitimate concerns from legitimate news sites. There is no FUD here, there is no attack on any "privacy mainstay" unless the moderators believe the US surveillance apparatus needs to be protected by them.

And if we needed more evidence the moderators are protecting the DHS, they also removed this comment from the thread's OP:

DHS revokes legal protections for 532,000 Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans: https://www.npr.org/2025/03/22/nx-s1-5337214/dhs-revokes-humanitarian-parole-cubans-haitians-nicaraguans-venezuelans

Bonus: mods censor a guide to safe border crossing

The post

"How to protect your phone and data privacy at the US border," by Johana Bhuiyan, The Guardian - https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/mar/26/phone-search-privacy-us-border-immigration .......... To safeguard your phone and data privacy when traveling to the United States, especially if you're a visa or green card holder, prepare for potential device searches by CBP. Decide beforehand if you will comply with a search request, keeping in mind the risks of refusal, such as device confiscation. Turn your phone completely off before entering the United States (to ensure a heightened state of security and to clear the memory) and ensure it requires a strong password for decryption, disabling biometric unlocks. Instead of wiping your phone entirely (which could raise suspicion), selectively delete sensitive data and empty trash folders. Encrypt your device data and consider moving data you don't want searched to a trusted and secure cloud storage, as CBP policy restricts searching online cloud services. Remember that border enforcement can be unpredictable, so these precautions can help minimize risks during inspection.

The removal reason

carrotcypher: Repost as a link post

Why this is bullshit

No rules were broken. Moderator carrotcypher cannot even be assed to fabricate one. (Why not just blacklist The Guardian too?)

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So, I've now had a 9 year account and a 13 year account both permabanned.

They've linked them as the same user and banned me for a benign post on r/pics.

I lost all faith in reddit when they changed the api then Relay for reddit stopped working.

Base model app is shit.

Comments constantly erase and empty endpoint error.

Can't even say 'I like that player two energy on super Mario bros', because that's 'violent'.

I've posted tens of thousands of comments and only recently had issues.

Got banned for saying 'Elon simps in our midst' referring to mods....who proved my point.

And finally now, they are paywalling shit soon.

Adios.

Anyway, I left digg in the great exodus for reddit, now this looks like my new home.

Rant over lol.

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Reddit is down (downdetector.com)
submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 
 

Does it work for you?

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My old Reddit account gets regularly scrubbed because Reddit keeps restoring shit. First, all posts get deleted (again), then all comments get replaced with crap, and after a few months, they too get deleted.

A mod looked at my profile and couldn't wrap his little brain around it. Hundreds of thousands of comments and post karma, but no posts. How? LOL

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cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/26060585

You should use archive.org or archive.today links.

The best way to influence the Domain Authority metric is to improve your site’s overall SEO health, with a particular focus on the quality and quantity of external links pointing to your site.

You can use the Wayback machine addon to easily get archived links https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/wayback-machine_new/.

And a bookmarklet for archive.today:

javascript:void(open('https://archive.today/?run=1&url='+encodeURIComponent(document.location)))

FYI, if you’re worried about archive.today going down and references being lost, you can manually leave in the original URL by adding https://archive.ph/o/ in front of any URL, after you archive it. IE: https://archive.ph/o/https://sh.itjust.works/post/26060585 will redirect to the archived page, if it exists.

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I don't use Discord, but I don't use any Discord-alternatives either. I think matrix.org would be the main one?

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cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/12881747

r/redditalternatives thread: This is why I don't trust anything on reddit. A r/modcoord thread full of anti-fediverse comments, and all of my pro-fediverse comments are removed and the mods won't answer why. https://web.archive.org/web/20240111205116/https://old.reddit.com/r/RedditAlternatives/comments/193iuf1/this_is_why_i_dont_trust_anything_on_reddit_a/

Content of deleted post https://archive.ph/cV8X6

Removed comments https://web.archive.org/web/20240111211111/https://www.reveddit.com/y/briangutaccess/