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Reddit banned Paul McCartney over phone-free concert photos post in their subreddit (piunikaweb.com)
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Paul McCartney’s official Reddit account seems to have been banned. The account, u/paulmccartney, had just dropped a set of photos and videos from the first night of his shows at the Fonda Theatre. It went straight into the r/PaulMcCartney subreddit. Then, not long after, the whole thing disappeared.

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[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 18 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

Man. Reddit has really just become a joke.

It's so bad it almost seems intentional.

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 4 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

They're making money by doing it. Conservatives monetize better.

[–] BygoneNeutrino@lemmy.world -2 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (2 children)

...Reddit is the opposite of Republican. The people there are aggressively far left. It is hard to believe that it's not an artificially enforced echo chamber.

The problem with echo chambers is that they are politically sterile. By aggressively forcing Republicans and moderates off the platform, we lose the ability to influence their stances and opinions. It becomes a circle jerk.

[–] TransNeko@lemmy.world 3 points 11 hours ago

Reddit mods (actual mods not subreddit mods) are a bunch of filthy pedophiles.

[–] leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 10 hours ago

No. Get out.

I was at a shitty crustpunk bar once getting an after-work beer. One of those shitholes where the bartenders clearly hate you. So the bartender and I were ignoring one another when someone sits next to me and he immediately says, "no. get out."

And the dude next to me says, "hey i'm not doing anything, i'm a paying customer." and the bartender reaches under the counter for a bat or something and says, "out. now." and the dude leaves, kind of yelling. And he was dressed in a punk uniform, I noticed

Anyway, I asked what that was about and the bartender was like, "you didn't see his vest but it was all nazi shit. Iron crosses and stuff. You get to recognize them."

And i was like, ohok and he continues.

"you have to nip it in the bud immediately. These guys come in and it's always a nice, polite one. And you serve them because you don't want to cause a scene. And then they become a regular and after awhile they bring a friend. And that dude is cool too.

And then THEY bring friends and the friends bring friends and they stop being cool and then you realize, oh shit, this is a Nazi bar now. And it's too late because they're entrenched and if you try to kick them out, they cause a PROBLEM. So you have to shut them down.

And i was like, 'oh damn.' and he said "yeah, you have to ignore their reasonable arguments because their end goal is to be terrible, awful people."

And then he went back to ignoring me. But I haven't forgotten that at all.

[–] psycho_driver@lemmy.world 5 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

I got a 3 day ban yesterday for "threatening violence or harm" for posting about OP breaking both his arms in a thread bringing up past reddit memes. I had left reddit for almost two years before being drawn back in for a handful miscellaneous subs. I don't think I'll be going back.

[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 2 points 16 hours ago

Lol.

I literally just got suspended 15 minutes ago for promoting violence for pointing out that America is going to see a rise in terrorism going forward for our actions in the middle east.

No call to violence. A simple statement of fact.

I know how to circumvent Reddit's methods for keeping me out, so I'm already back in with a new account. I have a browser script that re-adds all my subs for me. And I know I'm not shadowbanned cuz I know how to check that. This'll probably be my 50-70th Reddit account in the last decade. Which means Reddit has been trying and failing to keep me off their platform for a decade. I don't even care that it's just a 3 day suspension. I'm not going to be silenced for 3 days.

Fuck Reddit.