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Reddit trying to say upvoting posts in this sub or subs that are against right wing politics is worth a ban
(r.50501.chat)
I guess be careful with Reddit now, because I haven't up voted anything celebrating anyone's harm or death. I've only upvoted things that bring awareness to how awful certain people are or things in this subreddit. Absolutely wild.
Originally Posted By u/KnobbyDarkling At 2025-09-16 07:29:50 AM | Source
Is it actually rare? I think the majority of licensed/private digital services are mostly hostile compared to Free Open Source alternatives. By default, most of these services surveil all users and sell the data to brokers, with always online practices, constantly getting telemetry and other metrics from users. Some of these services even install kernel level root kits of various kinds under the pretext of security or anti-cheat. All of which I consider a form of hostility.
Honestly, I think this is the norm. There is a spectrum of hostility that consumers are just either ignoring or are unaware of. And even with the worst offenders, people find excuses to continue to use them.
Most other services are passively exploitative like you're describing. I can at least see an argument for that being a trade-off: using a "free" service in exchange for profiting from your data.
reddit does this too, but on top of that is also actively threatening to ban users for voting. That's just using the platform as intended.
As you noted, most of these services are hostile in ways that go unnoticed by the userbase. This is markedly more hostile than that, which is I think the point of the comment above. In an internet of services that are shitty toward users, reddit's a bit extra shitty toward theirs.