Fuck /u/spez
I legitimately almost as excited for the spez downfall arc as I am for Trump’s.
They are rich, what downfall do you mean?
Rich ain’t gonna mean shit when people can’t afford food.
Greedy little fuckboy
*pigboy
I know what I said.
… I said the wrong thing, mistakenly, but I’ll stick with it because the error is closer to the truth…
Fuck /u/spez
When I stopped using reddit a few years ago, I left my account intact because I had 18 years of posts that included a lot of tech help and other useful information that I figured people might stumble across.
Last night, I used Redact to scramble all 5,521 comments.
I envy you. I was a little too outspoken which led to my account being banned, and now I can’t do anything about my existing trove of data I foolishly created for them
Don’t feel too bad, they kept a copy regardless of who redacted
Redact is owned by a real piece of shit that holds onto that information for potential blackmail. FYI.
Velma, I believe you, but are there other sites you can recommend? Also, I couldn’t find any news on this.
Here’s an older Lemmy thread about Redact
Here’s a more in depth look at who Dan Saltman is:
Dan Saltman is a tech entrepreneur and political podcaster who leverages his platform to advance Zionist interests, targeting pro-Palestine voices and justifying Israel’s ongoing settler-colonial project in occupied Palestine.
As founder of TinyChat — a video chat platform acquired in 2014 after receiving $1.5 million in funding from Sean “Diddy” Combs, amid allegations of its use in predatory behavior — Saltman built his career in online communications. He now serves as CEO of Redact.dev, a service that deletes users’ digital footprints, which he promotes amid his own involvement in online activism. Saltman co-hosts the “Anything Else” podcast with Steven Bonnell II (Destiny), where he discusses politics and amplifies pro-Israel views to Western audiences.
Saltman has repeatedly portrayed pro-Palestine advocacy as support for terrorism, directly accusing streamer Hasan Piker of promoting “terrorist propaganda” and “Hamas recruitment videos.” In September 2025, he endorsed calls to ban Piker from Twitch, claiming Piker’s content encourages violence and supports terrorist organizations, while framing criticism of Israel as antisemitism. This rhetoric dehumanizes Palestinians by equating their resistance to Israel’s occupation with inherent threats, perpetuating consent for settler violence.
Saltman orchestrated a widespread disinformation campaign against Twitch, accusing the platform of fostering antisemitism by allowing pro-Palestine speech. He mobilized supporters to pressure advertisers, leading to temporary pauses in spending by companies like JPMorgan and AT&T in late 2024. This effort aimed to suppress voices critical of Israel’s actions in Gaza, where the confirmed death toll exceeds 40,000 — a conservative estimate, as Israel’s destruction of infrastructure and targeting of journalists has halted accurate counting, with the actual number slaughtered well into the hundreds of thousands. Saltman’s actions align with broader Zionist efforts to weaponize antisemitism accusations against dissent, shielding Israel from scrutiny over its apartheid policies and ethnic cleansing in the West Bank and Gaza.
His associations extend to content creators like Ethan and Hila Klein of the H3 Podcast and Destiny’s community, with whom he has collaborated on attacks against Piker, viewing him as a threat due to his effective advocacy for Palestinian liberation. Saltman’s push to repeal Section 230 appears motivated by a desire to further censor online criticism of Israel. Twitch banned him indefinitely in November 2024 for “extreme harassment,” including doxxing and targeting employees who refused to comply with his demands.
This pattern of behavior is not isolated but part of a consistent effort to normalize Israel’s settler-colonialism, obscure Palestinian suffering under occupation and genocide, and manufacture public consent for ongoing violence.
Some additional info on the type of harassment campaigns that Dan Saltman engages in.
Dan Saltman? Is Sam even trying here?
Yea that guy sucks for a ton of reasons but what does that have to do with your claim that he holds on to your redacted Reddit comments as blackmail?
You think a guy who has stalked and harassed multiple people isn’t using everything in his power to force them to do what he wants?
There’s an ulterior motive for everything with Dan Saltman.
I sure as fuck wouldn’t trust any of my information with this fucker.
App claims it’s stored locally, so I don’t know.
Any source on the blackmail claim?
Ereddicate is the FOSS option, but reddit broke it permanently a year ago.
Whelp, glad I didn’t give him any money then.
I did 😭
Jeeez, I was thinking about using them to scramble my Meta accounts, thanks for the info!
No problem! It can be hard to keep track of everyone behind the scenes, so to speak.
Jinkies
Sorting by top of all time in any subreddit shows the scars from all this nonsense. I used to have a top post in the WarThunder subreddit, now it’s just a burning memory.
I made the discussion threads for a few shows in their early seasons from around 2010. There wasn’t automation to do it back then.
I’ve soon been on here for 3 years now and made almost 11,700 comments in that time (which I personally find must be a miscount somehow, that sounds insane). So anyway, I was on Reddit for over 11 years. Extrapolating these numbers kind of boggles my mind a bit.
It was pretty well theorized that by killing off apis they were cutting out their highest content providers, us. We provided free content and they got value out of it. Then they didn’t want us anymore.
Now we are here, thousands of comments and posts, and they are upping theirs with AI slop
Good luck to 'em. But also fuck 'em.
Evidently spez restores deleted comments from backup
That’s why I didn’t delete them.
Unfortunately, they absolutely can see edits and restore them if they wanted to anyway.
Smarter than I. I scrambled them first, then deleted. Used the blackmail guy too. I did it all wrong. Now all my accounts are banned and I can’t do shit about it.
They will automatically unredact your stuff unless you prove you live in a gdpr country with a government ID. Which they cannot be trusted with. Heads they win, tails you lose.
“During October, we have seen that search traffic has dropped by more than 1 million referrals on average per week. If this rate of decline continues, current trends would suggest that total DAUqs [or daily active unique users] could fall in Q4, by a low-double-digit percentage from our current base of 130 million DAUqs,” Huffman wrote.
Weird that not allowing people to use your site would lower the number of people using your site.
It’s just shitty that so much useful information is on reddit.
It’s ok. The AI companies will scrape it and spit it out for you.
It’s ok. The AI companies will scrape it and might spit it out for you.
Correction bolded, but it was sad that was my first thought too
The first result is always “Why are asking us when you can just google it?”
I am trying to stop answering questions that I think are quickly searchable with “you have the entire world’s knowledge in your pocket”. It’s been a long time since trustworthy information has been easy to find on the internet.
It’s like repeatedly hitting your genitalia with a wooden mallet and acting smug about it, if someone is asking for assistance.
“People aren’t coming to our website so we are going to make it harder for people to come to our website.” - The dumbest motherfucker alive (and he’s competing with Trump and Altman)
He’s so unbearably dumb…
And permanently banning anyone that says anything remotely like what the advertisers don’t like.
And today in other news, more news at 8!
And I’m moving to an always logged out experience.
Not affecting my usage at all.
I’ll continue not to use it.
It has affected mine. Sometimes a Google result suggested the only answer was in a reddit thread, and I would click to at least see. Now I get a 'log in" prompt and decide I didn’t need that information after all.
In other news, Reddit stock is down a whopping 28% today.
Reddit will become irrelevant. Long live Lemmy.
Just like Digg.
Time for an exodus.
There’s only one social media site that’s still the same as it was a decade ago. The only problem is that it was never good.
It’s not the same place it was 20 years ago 😂 I hate how old I fucking feel knowing I was an og /b/tard
How has it changed? I’m genuinely not familiar with it. I know of the spicy reputation it once had, but I rarely see it mentioned anymore these days. I assume censorship or something like it found its way there?
User posts are down, bot posts are up. Go to anything political or US, Israel or Iran news and all you will see are hundreds of homo erotic AI images of Trump posted by bots
Ugh, that does sound terrible. I liked Reddit reasonably well before 2016 turned everything and anything into politics. And then covid and the whole Ukraine situation turned everything to shit even further.
I really miss the 2000 internet when it was just nerd discussions and the occasional funny gif.
the bots switch themes every day, one day it was all about posting BBC, the other gore and so it goes
Just because the people have changed doesn’t mean the platform has changed
Nah it changed, if you were there early on you know the vibe started changing by 07 and by 10 it was kinda what it is now. I’m pretty sure I fully left in 2011.
While yea alot was user base ageing out it was also leadership, rules, posting numbers, OC reduction, government actions.
reddit is moving to “a bot-only experiment”
Please do. It sounds like the perfect plan for reddit to finally sink to complete irrelevance.
It’s crapitalism.
What is a Reddit? /s
It’s some kind of Digg where the power users where replaced by the crazy mods. Same thing in the end actually.
Now you have me wondering if my slashdot account still works.
It probably does. To my knowledge they’ve never deleted old accounts, though you might have an issue if you’ve forgotten your password and the e-mail address you used to sign up is no longer accessible to you.
R.I.P. NSFW communities I guess.
I thought those weren’t visible without a login already, right?
ive been trying to post my experience-first video player on reddit and i can’t even post anywhere because everywhere requires i comment NINE TIMES FOR EVERY PERSONAL POST. fuck that man I’m trying to share something i made for free over 3 months I’m not fucking playing social media simp just for the privilege
Even if it did let you post you would get shadow banned btw. So yeah Reddit is dead basically. Which honestly good riddance.
Yeah, that shit made it really easy to abandon reddit when my account was banned. I briefly attempted to get back on with a new account but none of the communities I liked let you participate without an established account,
It’s super funny to me. They’re so greedy to keep our content that we gave them for free, that they’re going to commit a slow digg.
I’ve used reddit for 17 years. As of this week, all my accounts have been banned, I can no longer create a new one without using an email tied to my identity, and (as of today) I can’t access the site on my phone at all without being logged in.
It was fun while it lasted. It would be nice if this website could serve as a pivot for people like me, enough to create an atmosphere conducive to the kinds of interactions I used to enjoy online. I don’t have high hopes, but we’ll see.
Maybe I’ll just go outside
Be the change you want to see. Post interesting stuff you find to share with the fediverse. Comment when you have an opinion. It really helps.
I wonder if they targeted users they couldn’t tie back to real identities. I never used an account tied to a real identity or a real email address and all of my accounts were banned for pretty innocuous or specious reasons.
One was banned for advocating violence against women, because I called Kaitlyn Jenner an attention whore. One was banned for saying Luigi is a hero. Of course all attempts at appeals were ignored.
The latest ban was for calling someone gay. The sub I used was known for being a place where you could do that. Call it edgelord or hateful or whatever, I’m immature and still find it funny. Sue me. I had done it dozens of times on that account. I had seen it dozens of times on that sub that week. This time: Instant ban. Literally clicked save, clicked on a new link immediately after, banned.
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If your hill to die on is calling other people gay, maybe this isn’t the place for you. That’s all I was saying.
We’ve got a pretty large LGBTQ+ user base here. Homophobia isn’t funny no matter how rational and logical your other topics of conversation were there.
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You’re being fucking annoying and a scold. And, I’m just being honest with how that makes me feel about you.
Rude.
You know what does help them? Working together. Collaborating. The free exchange of ideas. Sharing a laugh or an experience. Bitching about life and dating your shitty fucking job together.
Calling them gay helps them apparently /s
Your account is hours old and you really think coming in here and scolding all of us for being anti-homophobes and anti-edgelords is the move?
So, before you run your mouth any more, you should know that lemmy is a pretty small population and proudly obnoxious people may not be banned, but they sure as hell can be put on a lot of people’s personal blocklists.
Yikes.
Those are the exact type of Redditors that I would prefer stay far the fuck away from the Fediverse.
Call it edgelord or hateful or whatever, I’m immature and still find it funny. Sue me.
This attitude sucks.
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Immature? No, the word you’re looking for is “homophobic.”
No, actually it was obstinate. Obstinate. Back to the board
It hasn’t been fun for the past few years, it’s been bots reposting other people’s comments and an algorithm designed to get you angry and depressed enough to keep coming back for more.
Maybe some new blood will shake things up
It’s much better here.
I’m finding it mode difficult to get banned. So, that’s a plus
