I apologize as I didn't fully get everything. This was just posted 15 minutes ago on Subreddit Drama, and if Reddit decides to delete it, here it is on Lemmy.

Direct link: https://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/1ocisqr/comment/nkmq44a/

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Coordinated Alt-Right misinformation network being pushed to the front page of Reddit.

I have noticed these subs infesting my feed for awhile now and decided to take a deeper look. this shit is scary, and symptomatic of our current information landscape. and it will only get worse.

there are a shared group of moderators: https://www.reddit.com/user/SwimmerPlus3383/submitted/

https://www.reddit.com/user/dead-end-kid/

https://www.reddit.com/user/InternationalYou4065/

https://www.reddit.com/user/00dayoff/

https://www.reddit.com/user/ptlegion/

Im sure there are more, Dead-end-kid is a consistent link between all these communities, two of the most popular being: https://www.reddit.com/r/EuropeNewsandPolitics/

https://www.reddit.com/r/ThisMadeMe/

These subreddits are flooded with misinformation designed to rage bait the user, these are often racially charged. an example being:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ThisMadeMe/comments/1ocfeot/an_immigrant_harassed_a_young_man_on_the_tube_he/

Where a video from 2023 in RUSSIA, was framed to be a British teen being harassed by immigrants. there are plenty more examples of this if you look yourself.

These subreddits have been floating to the top of peoples feeds for some reason, whether these users are botting engagement to get there, or are manipulating the algorithm, or hell being put there on purpose by reddit. i do not know. what i do know is that this is symptomatic of our society at the moment, and that people should keep their eyes open, and also report the shit out of these assholes.

EDIT: some lovely person has linked a post that is relevant to this from 4 months ago, i urge you to check it out: https://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/1l8hno6/palantir_may_be_engaging_in_a_coordinated/

started getting this today: Too many requests. Your request has been rate limited, please take a break for a couple minutes and try again.
is anybody getting this?

Hey everyone,

We want to be completely transparent about what’s been happening behind the scenes.

Over the past few weeks, Reddit admins have started cracking down on subs that post political, off-topic, or “low-effort” content — even when it’s obviously satire or harmless shitposting. Unfortunately, r/CirclejerkSopranos got flagged in that wave.

We were told, directly and indirectly, that if we didn’t clean things up, the subreddit could be taken down permanently.

What This Means

To avoid a ban, we’ve had to remove a lot of posts that don’t fit Reddit’s updated enforcement standards. That includes:

Political jokes or memes — even if they use Sopranos screenshots

Non-Sopranos posts, current-event edits, or general internet memes

Some of the more “random” or off-topic shitposts the sub used to allow

We know that kind of content was part of the sub’s identity and humor. We didn’t want to change it — but Reddit’s moderation team made it clear that if we didn’t comply, the entire community could be wiped out.

The mod team isn’t happy about this either. None of us want to over-moderate or kill the vibe — we’re just trying to keep the sub from getting banned.

Anyways $4 a pound. It's up to you guys if you'd like to keep this sub around.

EDIT:

Whatever happens to this sub, thank you for the last 8 years. It’s been an honor to be joined by men of honor.

Ah salud

https://www.reddit.com/r/CirclejerkSopranos/comments/1ob5b3n/mod_update_reddit_cracking_down_on/

In Reddit's "Family Medicine" subreddit, a moderator noticed earlier this week that the AI-powered "Reddit Answers" was automatically responding to posters, typically with "something related to what was posted." Unfortunately, that moderator says, Reddit Answers "has been spreading grossly dangerous misinformation."And yet Reddit's moderators "cannot disable this feature."

Security was there in yellow vests with radios. Allegedly they were supposed to be local activists who were trained by Indivisible in safety and de-escalation, but they definitely looked more like either off duty cops or feds.

They were dispersed through the crowd, and at one point they got together in a huddle to discuss some stuff near the group I was with. We kind of eavesdropped bc they seemed so sheisty, and ended up overhearing them saying they had put detail on somebody in the crowd who seemed suspicious to them.

I’m not sure they were actually with any security Indivisible had trained, but maybe? They also could have been feds who just got yellow vests and were impersonating activist security, but they definitely weren’t "local activists." I would be curious to know what kind of security people in blue states saw at their rallies/marches yesterday?

Reddit's been pretty hostile to IP and devices associated with me. I haven't interacted a lot with reddit, but when I did, I chose so because of how big the communities are (mostly TOMT and one 2000s laptop brand community).

I don't know when it all started, I probably had to wait a week after account creation, probably had to not use reddit's default username, probably didn't have to update my post as often as I did. But the matter is, I can't get shadow unbanned despite all my appeals and I don't see it as a worthwhile activity just for a one/couple of TOMT post(s) that I'm ok with not being credited for.

..p.s. and this backstory probably explains my arrival to this platform.

I was just interested to see how much had changed since December when I was randomly banned with no reason given and the appeal went unheard.

I was just planning to browse and not log in but it immediately gave me a pop-up notification to create an account.

Curious if it would allow me, I submitted the application and it went through without problem.

I didn't want to draw too much attention to myself, so I didn't comment or post for the first month.

Then, I made another mistake. I got invested, again and it didn't take long before it inevitably became political.

I posted a reply to someone who had clearly been chugging the orange kool-aid. Nothing terrible, just what I thought was objective reality, easily verifiable through past reporting through many credible media outlets.

But, reddit is going to reddit. Somehow objective reality has been classified as hate speech on reddit.

I'm not surprissd. Just a little disappointed.

I appealed, I do not expect a reply.

Previously, I had been on reddit for 10 years without much incident.

This time I lasted only 2 months

Edit:

They manually reviewed it and kept the ban!

Reddit’s conversational AI product, Reddit Answers, suggested users who are interested in pain management try heroin and kratom, showing yet another extreme example of dangerous advice provided by a chatbot, even one that’s trained on Reddit’s highly coveted trove of user-generated data.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bromism

However, a man was poisoned in 2025, after a suggestion of ChatGPT to replace sodium chloride in his diet with sodium bromide; sodium bromide is a safe replacement only for non-nutritional purposes, i.e., cleaning.[3][4][5]

This is the main reason I completely ditched Reddit, if you use the new Reddit interface instead of the old one (old.reddit.com), you'll see a constant request being made to "https://www.reddit.com/svc/shreddit/events" (open your DevTools > Network tab, can't see on Firefox idk why).

The problem is, if you add this to your Ublock Origin filters the website won't load properly, that's why uBO team didn't block it already.

You'll notice this request isn't only being made from a interval but also when you do basically any action in the site, like pausing or resuming a video (send timestamps of when did you pause or resumed).

It sends other kind of data like what subjects you're seeing when closed a tab or the related subjects of a post you click, this all can be used to trace a perfect profile of you and things you like.

You can avoid that by using the old.reddit but it still has the same kind of tracker, even tho you can block it here without major issues.

By my analysis, old Reddit interface does the same but to a random URL path that always starts with "reddit.com/api/something". Ex.: reddit.com/api/friends So you can block anything that starts with "www.reddit.com/api" in your custom filters (after all you're using old.reddit.com), then you're mostly free from Reddit trackers (more or less). Side effect is, you won't be able to use the chat in the old interface.

Let's assume the top executives of Reddit are worried about Lemmy.

Lemmy is taking away users and attention. The ressources that Reddit is desperately attempting to sell to advertisers.

In a meeting, Steve Huffman, Jen Wong, Drew Vollero and Jim Squires decide to spend $1 million dollars on a secret project called Cobra.

Their goal is simple : to destroy Lemmy. Apart from the top management, no Reddit employee is aware of project Cobra, because it must not leak in the media.

How could they actually sabotage Lemmy?

Nothing you see on reddit is “organic”!

From https://www.reddit.com/r/TheoryOfReddit/comments/1o25tuu/comment/nilxnjy/

I was browsing reddit and saw thi post /r/europe deleted for Berlin protest.

I can’t wait to get Reddit banned for this lol

Don’t really frequent it all that much. Not sure when this happened

Direct link https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/1nyliom/removed_by_moderator/

As some of you may know, recently Reddit started using some sort of bot or LLM called Anti-Evil Operations (AEO) to start rummaging through comments and ban users unilaterally. You've probably noticed it when you've gone through a post and found a long list of removals saying "[ Removed by Reddit ]". That's the AEO bot. My own personal experience with that bot is that the ban reasons can be rather assinine.

Case in point, earlier this year I got 1-week Reddit ban. This was in /r/ShittyLifeProTips where there was a post proposing a silly method for dealing with drivers who park in handicapped spots. My comment was very short and simply said to make a piss disc (the usual SLPT joke answer) and drop it through the car window. That was the entire comment. This got me a Reddit-wide ban for Rule 1: promoting violence. My appeal was declined. I get it, it's a dumb joke, but that's just what they do there.

I am now on another 1-week ban for a similar kind of silly joke that AEO took too seriously. I'm not even going to bother appealing because it's clear they've taken humans out of the loop and just have LLMs processing the user side of things.

Oddly enough I don't have any problems with individual subreddits or moderators. Most of them, except for a handful of power tripping individuals on the big subreddits, do a rather thankless job keeping their communities running. Reddit's AEO bots are where the problem is.

Just Googling around it appears this has come up among some of the moderators: 1, 2, 3, 4, etc.

Reddit is not only getting aggressive in deleting legitimate users (as per the other posts people have made) but are also trying to completely automate sitewide moderation. It appears they're willing to take a tremendous amount of collateral damage to do this. LLM based tools don't maintain understandings of a community's evolving culture and are unable to gauge intent and tone. Friendly joking "trash talk" between gets flagged as toxicity, satirical content mocking bigotry gets flagged, ironically, as bigotry, and so forth. They'll definitely get rid of the toxic content like they want, but at the expense of killing communities and driving off old timers.

Hopefully this is a case study for Lemmy to not start rolling out those tools here. For the time being I'm going to look around and use my ban period to get more familiar with Lemmy. I was surprised that my Lemmy front page had a lot more fresh content than I remember last time... that's a good sign, and it makes me wonder if a slow exodus is already underway. Reddit's overaggressive moderation seems to be helping it along.

I wonder if anyone else has stories about ridiculous reasons for getting flagged by the AEO bot.

I've been on Reddit since 2015 and I actually had a blast on it, about a year before the inevitable one of many Reddit Meltdowns happened the following year because of the general elections.

And I really loved the communities of Nostalgia, TrueUnpopularOpinions (before it got radicalized), UnpopularOpinions (before that got very samey), Games (before they got ban happy), Gamers (before they got even more ban-happy), AskReddit, YSK, TrueOffMyChest, Rant and a dozen others.

So I was a real talker in those sub-reddits. But I think one of my first of many bans happened was because, it was now 2016 and we started seeing a flourish of bad actors and trolls run around. And they were proficient in gaslighting people, so I became one of them, said a few things, mods got pissy and banned me yet not the person who did the gaslighting.

This would be a trend for the next 8 years. Where I would try to stop engaging trolls, shit would hit the fan, some oversensitive user got uppity on me, trolls came around again and so on. I estimate that I got banned probably about 30 some odd times by now in a near 10 year span.

I would go through so many e-mails and user names that it started to seem like a profile was being made on me because of how many times I tried coming back just to partake in the old communities I could. Reddit was getting worse and worse every attempt.

I think the last true time I was able to talk freely on Reddit was probably some year and a half ago. I tried the whole workaround where you make a new account, build some cheap karma on AskReddit and you'll be good. But that wasn't enough anymore.

Now anytime I would join, I get shadow-banned. I would appeal, but I know better because mods/admins don't give a fuck about appeals. They're righteous in their own way. So while I do have an account on there now that's active, good luck saying anything with it because it's shadow-banned.

get rekt.