Conspiracy theorists for the last few decades: “The government is trying to murder us!”

The actual government in 2025: “Yes, we would like it if a grand majority of you were to die”

Conspiracy theorists: crickets

Considering they must have known they couldn’t get away with this undetected, I suspect there will be a sizable amount of rubles being deposited in his bank account or that of one of his relatives soon.

14 years worth of curating subs will suck to redo, but oh well, life is change.

Please feel free to create the communities you find are missing still! Things are smaller and slower here, but that means that even in the popular threads, people will actually see and read your comments rather than them disappearing in an ocean of bots or (DELETED).

You get an achievement for that? Cuz I’m eligible.

Absolutely, but they’ll have to jump through a few hoops to get it, which in practice already makes a massive difference.

Upvoting/downvoting history is a goldmine in terms of both marketing and surveillance. Every user with over a year of organic activity is a goldmine. Maybe you’ve never ever posted a single controversial opinion online. But you might have upvoted someone else’s - BAM, on a list. Or rather, category I assume. Those innocuous clicks reveal a lot more about you than you think. That information WILL be used against you. If you’re lucky, only to try and sell you shit you don’t need. If unlucky…

I think a shadowban used to be all or nothing, but now it’s possible on a sub by sub basis and possibly even temporarily.

Yup that’s shadowbanning for ya.

I don’t really agree that it’s much easier to start on Reddit. Especially nowadays.

-Post from an IP that was once used by a banned account? Also banned (after first being shadowbanned)

-Try to post in any niche sub of your choosing after making an account? Forget it, wait three weeks and farm 3K karma first (which encourages shitposting and reposting, lowering quality)

-Deviate a fraction of an inch from whatever sub’s 500-page rulebook? Banned.

-Try to argue an unbanning? That’s a permanent mute.

-Post anything - and I do mean anything - in a “wrong” sub, get immediately permabanned by a slew of subs you didn’t even know existed.

-Some mod doesn’t agree with something you posted? Even if it was 5 years ago in a sub that has since been deleted? Banned and muted.

Reddit is an absolutely terrible experience for new posters. How they even manage to retain a tenth of them is beyond me. I encourage them to keep it up however, more traffic for Lemmy.