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I got permbanned for saying Neo-Nazis should be named and shamed. Spez edits comments that are critical of him. There was a massive ban wave a few months ago of anyone posting the names of Elon Musk's DOGE goons (who btw are supposed to be known as public officials) because Musk whined to Spez about it. Mods of r/news locked several recent topics on the atrocities committed by the Israeli government, without explanation and within an hour of being posted. On topics critical of the Trump regime, from what I can gather from replies and even quotes, the [removed] comments are tame, yet they continue with their draconian crackdown on "advocating violence"
And on that subject, I got caught in a 3 day ban for "advocating violence" when I was joking about a mosquito smoking a cigarette and getting cancer. My appeal was denied.
And I haven't even touched on the thousands upon thousands of bots I've seen posting, commenting, getting awarded and boosted, and even running entirely-bot populated subs while admins and powers that be throw up their hands saying "welp nothing we can do" at the same time making it easier for bots to sign up, spread propaganda, and hide their tracks. Why? Because bots are their bread and butter. They drive up engagement. They boost reddits active user count (big number = investors happy). There exists an incentive not to do anything about it.
Reddit is biased, bots are everywhere and their mods and admins are out of control. The platform is circling the shitter, from personal experience.
Edit: I mean don't get me wrong, reddit was a good resource for a great myriad of things from like 2005- ~2023 ish. But now, it's become so permeated with misinformation, disinformation, astroturfing, and LLM slop that it's currently unsalvageable, in my opinion.
I don't think (or assume) you're wrong across various examples of such, duderino, but you're also spinning it right there in to a laughably-giant web of conspiracy (so to speak) simply to meet the needs of your hurt feelings and self-righteousness.
You and the downvoters are sinking in to the worst aspects of our natural state (tribalism), while completely whiffing on the better aspects of tribalism, which (to me?) is to recognise friends where you can see them, and not assume 'evil' about everyone around you.