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Mike Hardaker accuses Reddit of holding organic posting ‘hostage’ unless he buys ads, shares email screenshot (piunikaweb.com)
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Mike Hardaker, who has maintained a Reddit account for 20 years, has been shadow-banned on Reddit. He has posted an update on X, stating that Reddit requires an ad spend to restore organic posting. This demand was given to him in writing.

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[–] 20dogs@feddit.uk 8 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

I mean there's gut feeling and then there's real actual evidence.

[–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 5 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

Exactly.

It's one thing for Reddit to be taking action against automated posting and just be doing a shitty job. At least they'd be TRYING to fight against this source of toxic societal corrosion.

It's a whole other kind of immoral to see that their anti-bot activities are simply cover for the enforcement branch of their ad sales department. Bots are not against the rules at all, spamming communities to create false consensus is A-OK with Reddit as long as the check clears.

Fuck Spez even more. I heard he was a moderator on r/jailbait for quite some time, btw