Just migrated over from Reddit. My account was only 19 days old, and Reddit’s automated spam bots completely shadowbanned me purely for connecting over standard mobile carrier data. I didn’t even break a rule—the system just flagged my account profile out of nowhere and completely broke my mobile settings menu. Glad to be on the Fediverse instead
Reddit is now filled with bots and moderators with limited critical thinking skill. They can ban anyone out of misunderstood, sensitivity or opinion disagreement.
actually 2 barriers, reddits site wide filters can just ban even if you havnt done anything on a sub yet. and then the mods also upped thier filtering too. with all those banned, its mostly bots that are left running the site, plus all the AI slop thats being posted.