Reddit seems to have introduced sitewide AI moderation bots that are sweeping up users and outright banning them, without warning or explanation, for crimes like including links in their posts. This has started to hit some pretty well-known artists in r/comics.

It’s inconsistent and unpredictable - which makes it worse, since you don’t know what the rules are. As companies like Reddit give up more and more control to unaccountable machines, this kind of thing is getting more common.

Reddit has always had kind of a strange relationship with contributors and what is often called “self-promotion”. On one hand, it wants Content… But it can’t seem to decide where it wants the content to come from.

It’s nice that we’ve got alternative spaces like this.

Anyway, have some links:

  • Impractical_Island@lemmy.world
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    14 hours ago

    That’s why every day, I look up a random reddit admin or employee and masturbate to them. I am doing my part to bring change to this world. If more people followed this example, we’d have more change in the world as the Earth turns where it stands, unless you have a long enough lever to pull it.