Seriously, wtf is going on? All the big platforms are going ban happy on a lot of people as of late for no reason, no explanations, nothing, or for extremely vague bogus reasons if they even say anything at all, a lot of people are getting randomly screwed out of the blue on years long accounts, they literally didn’t do anything to warrant it at all, even I got randomly nuked and locked out of most of the internet without any warning, discord is the only one that hasn’t been going crazy lately.
When the heck did it get this bad? Why are they going after people doing literally nothing wrong but leaving porn/scam/AI bots and actual TOS violators be without an issue? How do they benefit from banning everyone with no reason? What’s the goal here? Because it sure isn’t for stopping bots or scammers, those are running rampant more then ever now, and I don’t see how they gain money by banning and discouraging people who create content for their platforms, isn’t that like, bad for them?
EDIT: right, forgot everyone here is super duper political. Fyi I’m not much of a political person (sorry y’all), and I don’t really understand how any of this benefits them politically in anyway to begin with, or what any of this has to do with shareholders? How does any of that benefit those guys in anyway? I’m talking about normal people getting randomly banned without any politics even involved, people just hanging out in normal spaces and suddenly getting the ban hammer out of nowhere with no explanation.
You might not be interested in politics, but politics is very much interested in you.
Sure it might be fine to not be overly obsessed with politics but if you make a post about something that even remotely is indeed affected by politics, you should be prepared to receive political responses.
Oh cmon guys I didn’t mean to get all political
As for a response to your question, I’m not exactly sure, but as soon as Reddit went public, I saw the enshitification happening. Once they closed APIs and third party apps, then try to push their shitty ui website redesign, that’s when I moved to Lemmy and never looked back.
I decided to make a new Reddit account yesterday after deleting mine back a bit after they shut down the mobile API.
I deleted it again this morning. I might have some minor issues with Lemmy, but my god Reddit is a toxic cesspit. People just suck there, and I’m not sure exactly why.