Reddit seems to have introduced sitewide AI moderation bots that are sweeping up users and outright banning them, without warning or explanation, for crimes like including links in their posts. This has started to hit some pretty well-known artists in r/comics.

It’s inconsistent and unpredictable - which makes it worse, since you don’t know what the rules are. As companies like Reddit give up more and more control to unaccountable machines, this kind of thing is getting more common.

Reddit has always had kind of a strange relationship with contributors and what is often called “self-promotion”. On one hand, it wants Content… But it can’t seem to decide where it wants the content to come from.

It’s nice that we’ve got alternative spaces like this.

Anyway, have some links:

  • mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    7·
    20 hours ago

    They’ve also recently added a banner that takes up half of your screen if you go on their site without signing in.

    The decision boggles my mind since a lot of Reddit’s appeal to the layperson is that you can just go get answers on there. Or you used to be able to

    • brsrklf@jlai.lu
      1·
      11 hours ago

      I’ve been using that site for a while, for whenever some well-meaning but misguided person posted information I need on reddit :

      https://rdx.overdevs.com/

      With a redirection browser extension to automatically redirect reddit links to rdx.overdevs.com. No registration, clean UI, no unwanted automatic translation.

      No idea how long it’ll last, already there are some links that don’t get through it, and I noticed it doesn’t seem to work on desktop anymore (still going strong on mobile browser though). Didn’t look too much into it, maybe there’s something to fix in the redirection. It’s made for mobile, so even when it works on desktop there’s a fixed max length giving it a sort of newspaper column look but it was not a bad thing IMO.