“Sorry, you fell into our labyrinth of regex filters arbitrarily imposed by an unvetted volunteer on a billion dollar publicly traded platform. Your opinion doesn’t matter.”

When they IP banned me, I just turned off wifi on my phone and created a new account with a separate browser. But looking back reddit was never worth it. We’re all very addicted to this toxic form of crowd sourced moderated information. I’m not really convinced Lemmy is better on a design level, the upvote system is identical and doesn’t prevent echo chambers. I guess there’s autonomy with instances, so that’s nice…

Once you understand how reddit admins are basically mods themselves it kind of makes sense. The company has hired lots of power mods over the years that don’t “respect the human”. And the forces that be want to continue profiting from volunteer mods’ free labor. It says a lot more about the individual reddit admins that they make the lazy decisions they do.

That’s part of the enshittification rug pull, they take over as the hub of forums for most of the internet and then gatekeep as a power play.

I’ll use Windows 10 and pay for the updates for years while using old versions of office. Fuck Windows 11.