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Not positive, but I came to Lemmy today (would've came sooner had I known about it) because I was IP banned from Reddit overnight for agreeing that Jimmy Kimmel's show shouldn't have been canceled in a random comment.
Not here to make any political statements, just mentioning it because it seems like Reddit is on a banning spree and getting rid of anyone with opinions lol
If I were to guess their utilization of AI to deal out bans has come back to bite them in the ass. Anything that remotely suggest protesting for example will result in an automatic ban. Anything that could potentially go against the grain of ad revenue will result in a ban. Moderators fearing for their "job" are also way more heavy handed and they were previously.
Thus they're gradually killing off their userbase and instead what you'll find are bots and agenda pushing accounts in their place.
I mooched over there recently. Saw a post in /r/UKPolitics that looked interesting. The overwhelming majority of comments were by frothing right wingers who want to see all immigrants drowned at sea.
I unsubbed.
They banned all the legit users, so now it's just bots.
It's busily dying. Activity and engagement has been falling for years, but only recently reached tumbleweed territory.
Not my experience at all, but I hang out in niche subreddits only.
I will say that I am noticing a trend where if I sort top posts by year, damn near everything is 10-12 months old. Between that and just a general lack of good info on recent topics, it's clear a lot of the subject matter experts have moved on. To Discord, maybe.
I feel like they've been shuffling chairs on the titanic to cover up their falling engagement. Their default sort is now showing things from 4+ weeks ago, "Hot" posts with 0 upvotes on massive subs, hiding total sub member count with a rolling view count, etc...
Not sure who they're trying to fool but it's not hard to tell that activity has dropped. Stale posts, niche subs have dried up, active readers in the single digits, deleted comments, etc... But their stock is higher than ever so that's nice I guess?
Their indiscriminate AI ban hammer with no real appeal system is probably a large part of it as well. They have likely IP banned a large portion of the real humans that previously used the site.
I used it for over 11 years and was a top contributor or whatever before randomly getting axed for no reason
Bots. I presume they're gearing up and are about to do something massive soon.
Are you sure you're on popular?