this post was submitted on 19 Aug 2026
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Bye Reddit
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Spez has decided banning the user base will be beneficial, let's see how that goes
looks like it wasnt, he overshot his banning goals, which hurt the ability of AI to scrape the site, when there isnt user generatd content, they run into bot/AI generated content, its just slop on slop.
its likely actually what pushed to force logins now. banned a large portion of the user base, and that base is only lurking now. with that loss of datamining for google/AI, im guessing whatever scraped currently on reddit is mostly AI generated posts/comments, and reddit desperate to bring back actual users into the fold so they started and will force logins , so that user content can be sold to google again. conveniently google forced limiting accounts per device a few months ago.
Lol I love it when shit blows up in his face
It seems that they are SUPER ban heavy these days. I guess they won't be happy until literally every long time Reddit user has been banned.
While it has it's flaws, we're much better off on the Fediverse anyway, contributing to a free and open ecosystem.
apparently they banned too much last year, as i suspected before. which leads to less user=less AI scraping the site. and what is most encountered on reddit is mostly AI slop
they overbanned im guessing which eliminated accounts, multiple accounts. so people are too paranoid to login and onl lurk now.
They are also ip banning now, so if they catch your old IP or your VPN you'll get banned automatically.
yes, i think thats what drove alot of users away, and became lurkers, now they are trying to "claw" back some users so they can mine them more for Ai scraping, while not easing thier filters(yet).
the purges include multi-account bans.
I agree completely
In for one am happy with his actions, other wise Lemmy, Piefed etal would not exist, similarly Mastodon and Twatter (my journey here was Reddit --> Mastodon --> Lemmy years ago.