Surprising that this bug hit only NSFW and LGBT subs no? Almost sounds like there’s a shortlist to run through with such scripts.

  • Chozo@fedia.io
    592·
    15 hours ago

    Oh, a “bug”. Just like how Zuck’s platforms banned the word “democrat” because of a “bug”, right?

    These bugs seem oddly specific lately.

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
      352·
      16 hours ago

      Gotta keep the historical moment in context. If Harris had won, these bans wouldn’t be going through.

      The “WhitePeopleTwitter” sub got axed for outing Elon’s IT goons infiltrating the Treasury. Now that he’s on the sub, he’s probably got his legal/PR team sending threatening letters to Reddit admins for anything he finds personally upsetting.

      <Insert FreezePeachEmoji.jpg/>

    • phughes@lemmy.caEnglish
      272·
      16 hours ago

      Just like Facebook’s search “accidentally” suppressing Democrat searches. Firstly, why would you have that ready to “accidentally” deploy? Secondly, There’s no way something like that gets enabled without multiple levels of manager approval. Facebook isn’t some startup where anyone can push code to production.

    • Bakkoda@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      141·
      16 hours ago

      Think about how easy it was for them to both “turn it off” and “turn it back on” and then realize that’s not a place you should rely on.

    • MothmanDelorian@lemmy.world
      68·
      16 hours ago

      Because it is very difficult to monitor, investors tend to hate it, and they have issues with CSAM being shared on site (while making it neigh impossible to address).

  • witty_username@feddit.nl
    40·
    17 hours ago

    Lol. They accidentally switched on their new feature and called it a bug.
    So the question is, why did they make the feature?
    My guess is that they built it to convince investors that they could jettison entire userbases at the push of a button. In particular, investors of the silicon valley bigotry kind

    • regrub@lemmy.world
      31·
      12 hours ago

      The puritanical hypocrite kind too. Probably has a lot of overlap with the bigots

    • bean@lemmy.world
      41·
      14 hours ago

      “Hahaha! And THEN we tested it and blamed it on a bug! Those poor fucking morons have no idea how little control they have.” 🤣🤣

      -Spezticle

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
      14·
      16 hours ago

      Ban-Unban-Ban-Unban-Ban until using the site is obnoxious and participation plunges. Then start removing mods for arbitrarily enforced infractions. Seed in your own corporate friendly goons. They start banning active users and veteran accounts. Eventually, the whole sub just becomes reposts of ten year old Blåhaj memes and photoshopped/AI-generated random people waving rainbow flags with comments too generic for a Markov Chain.

      Its a strategy Reddit Admins have been using since 2012 to “clean up” a popular sub without actually killing it. Look Don’t Touch is the future of Reddit.

  • Z3k3@lemmy.worldEnglish
    191·
    15 hours ago

    Ban everything.

    Say oops reverse the ban.

    Miss the ones you were actually going after while no one is looking

  • foggy@lemmy.world
    161·
    16 hours ago

    They remove NSFW content and they lose their whole market.

    They are not the platform they think they are.

    Reddit is basically an onlyfans ad platform.

  • Warl0k3@lemmy.world
    15·
    17 hours ago

    What can you do but laugh, man. It took what, a few hours for them to remember what happened to Tumblr and try to walk this back? God, can’t even commit to licking boots…

  • Glent@lemmy.ca
    12·
    14 hours ago

    Was a test run coordinated with the whitehouse to gauge public reaction. The actual purge will be coming shortly and will involve way more than reddit. All is function comrade citizen, continue at the working job.