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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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[–] fittedsyllabi@lemmy.world 4 points 9 hours ago

Is Paul on Lemmy yet?

[–] Aatube@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

reddit says he wasn't banned but temporarily restricted during a password reset requirement, which showed him as banned due to a reddit bug

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 5 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

that bug has been ongoing since last year, it resulted in a ton of bans. one of my last accounts during the purge has the "password request" the first time he freed up my account from "ban" and then a 2nd time it shadowbanned me. something tells me its somewhat intentional to cull the numbers on reddit.

[–] rizzothesmall@sh.itjust.works 16 points 16 hours ago (3 children)

How does that biowaste bin fire still have users who can read and write?

[–] gokayburucdev@lemmy.world 4 points 10 hours ago

Because there are still a lot of content creators, especially in the technology field.If the process of sharing code and projects and receiving feedback took place on another platform, nobody would use Reddit.That's my only reason.

[–] RagingRobot@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

The other night I was watching John Stewart and he made an interesting comment. He said that reddit only recently became usable because it was too gross before. Insane especially from him

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

reddit got worst with all the AI/botting spamming, and reddit banning people, why does he think it got better ?

[–] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 2 hours ago

probably has due with being critical of israel no doubt, i notice he acted very strangely when people started to critcized israel.

[–] nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 8 hours ago

whoever has the most users has most of the users. until they decide they don't have any users, they will continue to have this true statement be correct constantly

[–] robocall@lemmy.world 23 points 1 day ago

Your pictures are welcome here, Paul!

[–] k0e3@lemmy.ca 52 points 1 day ago (17 children)

It's funny how a lot of the complaints I'm reading here are about how Reddit is unfriendly toward left-leaning people but all the right wing people complain about how Reddit is a cesspool of liberal propaganda.

It just goes to show that the platform plays both sides just to promote hate and anger.

I visited after I got banned and the default posts that show up without logging in (therefore uncurated) were all so irritating that I had to assume they were all ragebait.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 4 hours ago

yea just like other social media platforms, they allow astroturfing thats why its both sides getting triggered.

[–] Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

It's because the platform is full of people who can't handle someone not agreeing with them, so anyone who says they're wrong is immediately labelled as the enemy.

[–] Napster153@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

Worse, they allow these same people into power while the real owners of the site make money out of the inhumanoids overrunning the whole system.

[–] bearboiblake@pawb.social 11 points 21 hours ago

Reddit is hostile towards left-leaning people, and it is also a cesspool of liberal propaganda. Liberals fucking hate leftists, even more than they hate fascists, because liberalism is fundamentally pro-capitalism. That's why the mainstream media is currently crashing out about people like Hasan Piker, who actually represent a growing base of support for socialism, and they run every possible smear they can.

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[–] lechekaflan@lemmy.world 22 points 1 day ago

Fux you spez.

[–] heliotrope@retrofed.com 27 points 1 day ago (1 children)

TIL Sir Paul McCartney is on Reddit.

[–] jve@lemmy.world 57 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Was on Reddit

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