Screenshots of reddit.com/r/all on mobile as it appeared immediately after loading (did not scroll), taken at 12:34 and 12:40 PST; look what suddenly disappeared from the #1 post spot! That’s a rather specific “server error”…

I happened to take the first screenshot (12:34) because I thought it was suspicious enough that they were suddenly dealing with an unspecified “error” right as bad news about the site hit the top of r/all. Then a few minutes later (~12:38) the site didn’t load at all. A few minutes after that, the bad press post is gone from r/all. If you go to the post now (https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/1jl6smd/elon_musk_pressured_reddits_ceo_on_content/), it says “Sorry, this post has been removed by the moderators of r/politics” (marked as “off-topic”).

    • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
      16·
      5 days ago

      sell outs

      Well, yes. That’s entirely the point. It started years ago with the quarantining of fringe subs like WPD or Spacedicks, followed by allowing extremist subs like T_D to continue unfettered. Those were red flags many recognized, and Spez made it plainly obvious he was planning on commercializing Reddit and wanted a platform for advertisers. He didn’t lie about that, it was openly stated. Those events were followed up by cramming the Reddit app down our throats, the closing of the API, removing mods and communities protesting Reddit actions, the cleanup of anti-Spez art on /place, forcing ads into the feed, etc., etc. Now we have tacit support of censorship in support of an oligarch.

      IOW complaining that Reddit “sold out” is a bit late. It happened a while ago. Now they’re licking the boot

  • kelpie_returns@lemmy.world
    54·
    6 days ago

    Is this why I just got permabanned there for explaining that “globalist” is an antisemetic dogwhistle? They said I was using hatespeech and when I contested it, my sub ban (r/dandadan of all places) became a permanent site-wide ban.

      • kelpie_returns@lemmy.world
        27·
        6 days ago

        Genuinely nothing bad. Someone used the term “space globalists” to describe a faction in the manga, so I explained why globalist was an antisemetic term by explaining the context it gets used in irl as well as by providing specific examples of Alex Jones using the term and examples of him explaining why he uses it (he has, on rare occassion, said that you call them globalists instead of jews because the latter is a bad look, essentially). I did use some vulgar language and imagery, but only in quoting/paraphrasing what these types have actually said about their own beliefs.

        The part of the ruling that said it was off topic was, imo, fair as I did break that rule, but specifically using it to disallow people pointing out hate speech, while also deeming it hate speech, and while leaving the dogwhistle I responded to up all makes it feel very sus ngl.

        I asked their mods how what I said was qualified as hate speech and instead of getting any explanation, their response was a 2-day sitewide ban. After bringing it to admins, they, again instead of giving any reasoning to the ruling, just banned me from the site fullstop.

        • witnessbolt@lemm.eeEnglish
          18·
          6 days ago

          “As I mentioned before, exposure to true information does not matter anymore,” said Bezmenov. “A person who was demoralized is unable to assess true information. The facts tell nothing to him…show him a concentration camp, he will refuse to believe it, until he receives a kick in his fan-bottom. When a military boot crashes his balls then he will understand. But not before that."

          https://bigthink.com/the-present/yuri-bezmenov/

          The article is actually much more damning and urgent than this, but I don’t want to seem too off topic.

          They’ve all been brainwashed into believing the propaganda (globalist!!11!!1) or are tuned out of politics entirely

          Dark times

          • kelpie_returns@lemmy.world
            1·
            4 days ago

            Haven’t read your link yet, but with your point, I can absolutely concur; these are dark times, indeed.

            If there was ever a time to get to know your neighbors and start building up community allegiance and solidarity, that time would look a lot like right now. Good luck and stay clever, all!

            • witnessbolt@lemm.eeEnglish
              2·
              3 days ago

              Some key quotes:

              “What it basically means is: to change the perception of reality of every American to such an extent that despite of the abundance of information no one is able to come to sensible conclusions in the interest of defending themselves, their families, their community, and their country.”

              “Bezmenov described this process as “a great brainwashing” that has four basic stages. The first stage is called “demoralization” which takes from 15 to 20 years to achieve…minimum number of years it takes to re-educate one generation of students that is normally exposed to the ideology of its country — in other words, the time it takes to change what the people are thinking.”

              “As I mentioned before, exposure to true information does not matter anymore,” said Bezmenov. “A person who was demoralized is unable to assess true information. The facts tell nothing to him…show him a concentration camp, he will refuse to believe it, until he receives a kick in his fan-bottom. When a military boot crashes his balls then he will understand. But not before that."

              “Once demoralization is completed, the second stage of ideological brainwashing is “destabilization”. During this two-to-five-year period, asserted Bezmenov, what matters is the targeting of essential structural elements of a nation: economy, foreign relations, and defense systems. Basically, the subverter (Russia) would look to destabilize every one of those areas in the United States, considerably weakening it.”

              “The third stage would be “crisis.” It would take only up to six weeks to send a country into crisis, explained Bezmenov. The crisis would bring “a violent change of power, structure, and economy” and will be followed by the last stage, “normalization.” That’s when your country is basically taken over, living under a new ideology and reality.”

    • Agent641@lemmy.world
      8·
      6 days ago

      I still have 3 unbanned, high karma accounts that I don’t use anymore. One day I might need them to do a thing.

      • Ilovemyirishtemper@lemmy.world
        1·
        5 days ago

        I had been planning on deleting my… I think 15 year old account? that I haven’t touched since baconreader stopped working but hadn’t pulled the trigger yet because I put so much work into those years of posts. But, you make a good point. I may need it for a thing someday.

    • SirQuack@feddit.nl
      4·
      6 days ago

      Dang, I removed my account before the bans started flying.

      I did have to re-delete a lot of comments very often, and then the bulk deletion app was suddenly enshittified

  • oppy1984@lemm.eeEnglish
    20·
    6 days ago

    I still get on reddit, but I just read I don’t vote or contribute in any way. I noticed today that anything critical of trump or his administration was having a difficult time loading, but yet non-trump related content loaded just fine.

    Totally not suspicious.

  • lasange@lemm.ee
    12·
    5 days ago

    Write a review of Reddit on the App Store saying about people being silenced. Reddit can’t remove it unless you write something offensive

  • justsquigglez@lemm.eeEnglish
    11·
    5 days ago

    I had already deleted my reddit apps on my phone and such before switching over to Lemmy. But now that I see Muskrat directly going after reddit similarly to how he did with Twitter, I went ahead and deleted all my accounts. Fuck that place.

  • -☂️-@lemmy.ml
    13·
    5 days ago

    ive seen that happen before, on the anniversary of 9/11 a few years back, some guy posted a video of the retaliatory bombings, and it was removed pretty quick just like this. no trace.

    • Stern@lemmy.world
      6·
      6 days ago

      That, along with hide on up or downvote, is a account setting, and iirc isn’t on by default.

      • azalty@jlai.luEnglish
        6·
        5 days ago

        I believe the algorithm skips already seen posts so that you don’t see them again, whether this is on or off

          • azalty@jlai.luEnglish
            1·
            5 days ago

            Because it wasn’t seen. As you can see, the texted isn’t gray, but white

        • Stern@lemmy.world
          1·
          5 days ago

          It could have changed in the last year (I left in late 2023 personally) but I don’t think thats the case, also the other comic would have disappeared too if it was.

          • azalty@jlai.luEnglish
            1·
            5 days ago

            The comic post is still shown as it wasn’t viewed, indicated by it’s white title rather than gray title

  • ResolverOshawott@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    6 days ago

    Edit: I mistakenly thought the post was about the comics in the screenshot, my bad.

    Your post got removed probably because it presumably violated Rule 14 of the subreddit on their disallowed submission types.

    "Disallowed submission types

    /r/Politics is a serious political discussion forum. To facilitate that type of discussion, all submissions must be articles, videos or sound clips. The following are also disallowed:

    Satire or humor pieces. These submissions are better suited to /r/PoliticalHumor. Political cartoons can be posted in the Saturday Morning Political Cartoon Thread.

Links that solicit users (Active petitions, signature campaigns, requests for money, surveys or polls).

Submissions that are user-generated content without editorial oversight (ex: C-SPAN clips, selfposts/textposts, reddit polls, any submissions with user created text)

Political advertisements as submissions. Advertisers should buy ad space on reddit.com if they wish to advertise on Reddit.

Submissions which are entirely a copy-paste of the original reporting, or that add one paragraph or less, with a "read more at" link to the original content. Articles or videos that add another take on a subject, or include different verbiage or context are otherwise allowed.

Live blogs/live threads/live articles"

    That server error also happens occasionally on their app for basically no reason. It’s not due to any post, I sometimes become unable to see my profile for like a minute before it goes back to normal.

    I get and don’t disagree that Reddit is pretty fucking shitty, but not everything has to be or is attributed to some sort of conspiracy on how everything is getting censored because of blah blah whatever. Oh, and breaking a subreddit’s rules and getting your post removed or banned for it isn’t censorship (waaaaaaaay too many people do this istg).

  • Puzzlehead@reddthat.com
    4·
    5 days ago

    I got mysteriously site wide banned without any warning. Only been warned once on the platform and never been suspended. I believed I was following the reddit TOS and guidelines but was banned for "violating “multiple rules.”

    I have never been alerted about it by reddit ever what content of mine violated their site wide rules. I hope the admins here are more fair and actually respond to requests than using AI and algorithm and ignoring requests about wrongful suspension.

    Did reddit team just start to hand out banhammers to accounts randomly? My alt was banned and then my main one was banned hours later. It was just a generic message not really telling me what content of mine violated their site wide rules.

    • Shardikprime@lemmy.world
      1·
      5 days ago

      Well it says the ban was due to content on your other account, so maybe check the message in there? It’s not that big of a mystery

      • Puzzlehead@reddthat.com
        2·
        5 days ago

        I have that same message in both accounts. i even reached out to reddit support for more information when my appeal was denied for both accounts. Still awaiting to hear back.