They have bots roaming the site, banning people, seemingly at random. I went from never having been banned on reddit on a 10 year account, to banned for 3 days twice, and then permanently banned all in the span of a month.

And when did this happen? The week after the IPO went public.

And what kind of messages got me banned? Well one of them was in /r/Cleveland where a guy posted a security camera picture of the guy who stole his bike. I made the comment that the theif looks like a guy who stole MY bike in the early 90s, and that maybe this was his son. Keeping it in the family business.

I was banned for that comment for "Harassment and abuse of reddit users". The action was performed by an AI bot. If I wanted an appeal I could appeal. So I did. It SAID the appeal was handled by a real human. They still sided with the bots decision, which tells me that it wasn't handled by a real person.

So now I'm here. Just don't steal my bike, ok guys?

[–] ConstipatedWatson@lemmy.world 24 points 5 months ago

Hey dude, I've been looking for you for so long, since my Dad stole your bike and that was a turning point in my life, since I made a point of stealing your son's bike.

It is said that this will continue for generations until the seventh son of a seventh son, who'll transform into an upside down toothless vampire who likes garlic.

In order for this prophecy to come true, please ensure all your progeny keeps buying bikes.

PS Welcome to Lemmy!

[–] can@sh.itjust.works 20 points 5 months ago

I made the comment that the theif looks like a guy who stole MY bike in the early 90s, and that maybe this was his son. Keeping it in the family business.

That's hilarious. They don't deserve you.

[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Just don't steal my bike, ok guys?

I won't!

...but what kind of bike and where is it, just so I know what I'm not stealing and where I should avoid stealing it from

[–] mesamunefire@lemmy.world 29 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

reddit is about the same in my opintion, but I do see a lot more activity on the lemmy side. I think its a combination of:

Less rules around communities. The barrier of entry is much lower here to post, and things dont get auto-removed because of trigger happy mods.
2% of users post 90% of content. And a lot of them moved over to lemmy.
Servers can be brought into existence and removed at will. This may seem like a bad thing, but what it means is that the best lemmy servers can evolve and be successful in a way reddit cant. Some have different modifications to make them more user friendly, some have excellent uptime, etc...etc...
People from mastodon/misskey/other fediverse instances can comment/post. Even if that is not what a vast majority of us do, it does help the numbers and will continue to help engagement.

Also to @Blaze@reddthat.com Do you know if the sats above take into account the generally banned instances of lemmy? I know that a lot of instances earlier this year decided to become de-federated from the general fediverse. Do you happen to know if the website take into account those servers?

[–] Blaze@reddthat.com 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Also to @Blaze@reddthat.com Do you know if the sats above take into account the generally banned instances of lemmy? I know that a lot of instances earlier this year decided to become de-federated from the general fediverse. Do you happen to know if the website take into account those servers?

Not sure about this unfortunately

[–] mesamunefire@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

Fair enough.

[–] Moorshou@lemmy.zip 2 points 5 months ago

This one had .zip and that's why I choose it.

[–] can@sh.itjust.works 19 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The cracked apps using personal API keys stopped working a few days ago. Already fixed now I think.

[–] grysbok@lemmy.sdf.org 15 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Yep. That's why I'm here again. My reddit app may work for now, but the writing is on the wall in bigger, bolder letters.

[–] can@sh.itjust.works 7 points 5 months ago

Welcome back! Hope you like what we've done with the place.

[–] Blaze@reddthat.com 2 points 5 months ago

Welcome back!

[–] YellowMerigold@lemmy.world 12 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

They actually did, for a few days no 3rd party apps worked at all. But now they do again.

[–] toothpaste_sandwich@feddit.nl 10 points 5 months ago (4 children)

I thought all third party apps already stopped working?

[–] can@sh.itjust.works 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Have you heard of ReVanced? Most commonly known for patching youtube to allow more features, mainly adblocking. Well they have patches for a ton of apps now so if you have a reddit account and say you're a developer you get your own API key they can be injected into some apps. It didn't work for me for a while but I eventually got it to work for the random search result from reddit.

[–] mesamunefire@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

Self hosting piped helps too. Love my little system.

[–] jawa21@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 5 months ago

They were working around it by using personal API keys iirc.

[–] Remorhaz@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

Not all of them, Dystopia for example was allowed to stay as is because of accessibility features that the native app lacks. It was even working just fine during the recent outage.

[–] Klaymore@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 months ago

I use Geddit occasionally, I don't know if it supports voting or commenting though since I just browse.