Now i get random ban, even if i have legitimate use.

I just comment around, nice word. Reddit AI decided that i am spamming.

Trip the spam filter once in 2 day.

I think that I started using Reddit around 2014~5 or so. For me the cultural shift shows two things:

1. Any online community financed by adbux will eventually prioritise advertisers over its own participants.
2. Unless you have tools ensuring transparency of the process, people with power over the others’ speech will misuse it to defend their individual interests, instead of the community’s.

I miss it. I came over right after Digg died, almost half a decade before 2010. Thought it was the ugliest site I had ever seen and found it super confusing.

People did largely speak their minds though, lots of controversial posts and uncensored humor, yeah it was nice, but the change in Reddit really mirrors general cultural changes too, it was more driven by Gen X and older millennials, more tech driven, and more what people would call edgy.

It was the wild west not so much because Reddit specifically was, but because that’s what broad tech bro Internet culture was. We also had relatively unmoderated Xbox Live and online gaming and other things that are hard to explain to folks now.

What we would call social media existed, Digg called it Social Bookmarking for a Digg / Reddit / Slashdot model. Myspace was just giving away to Facebook, Twitter was getting off the ground, and chat rooms, like Yahoo chatrooms and Geocities were so unhinged back then.

2005 is around the time that Yahoo started looking major ground to Google when just a few years prior it was the undisputed default search engine.

Neat to think about all this again.

Yeah, then the litany of litigiousness took hold and the world has never been the same

I was on here and called out a billionaire that fucked over me and my company because they didn’t want to pay what they owed. I named, I shamed, and assholes on here defended the billionaire.