I feel like providing an email is a much better alternative to having your account blanket banned due to creating it at a certain time.

If not emails maybe just being stricter when checking to see if the one creating an account is human?

Yeah that worries me. Was definitely just a lurker at first while I got used to the place. They didn’t ban me so I’m still here. Never had issues making or keeping accounts before but here lately it’s been such a hassle. Instagram has taken to banning me immediately, I had to make 10 accounts in a row before they didn’t immediately ban one.

Worst part is they don’t tell you why and you can’t fight it. I feel like it’s bc I use a VPN then lurk but idk. never another account there, not worth it. Facebook did the same thing a few times until something finally clicked in their system and they quit deleting them.

Tiktok has apparently done the same damn thing as I went to use my account the other day just to be informed it was deleted or banned I don’t remember.

Think it said to check my email, which I frequently do and there was no mail saying my account was going to be deleted much less why.

It’s ridiculous and rather than making a new account I just exit the site now.

So deleting them all? I don’t really agree (though I hope they were indeed bots!)

I think what would make more sense is to be more strict when users actually create the accounts in the first place. I feel like those “select all the images with bikes” are ridiculous, I’m human and half the time Google or wherever says I didn’t get it right but there HAS to be a simpler, better way.

I get hit with those all of the time, I think everyone with a VPN does so a few additional steps wouldn’t be such a big deal and imo would be far less annoying than logging in and realizing your account was blanket banned without explanation just bc you happened to create it while bot accounts were being made.

Would help even more if users had a string bot report feature where it was taken seriously. It could be pretty simple. See a bot? Report it.

The reviewer of the report, instead of just blanket banning should maybe contact the user first to check and see if they’re human. As far as user retention it’s better than just banning every bot we think we have.

Yep, also an easier way to explore/sign up and filter instances and their different pages. I’m new and have no idea what I’m doing regarding that. So far I’m just signing up to instances and hoping new interesting stuff appears on my page… I’m on Lemmy.world as I assume we all are, how do I view the different pages on this instance or is it all just in a singular feed?

I’d say probably the users leaving reddit due to the api changes. Iirc around the 20th was when spez did an AMA about the changes and made PR exponentially worse by using canned responses, throwing subtle insults here and there and ignoring the big questions in favor of what he’d already had his PR team write a response for. It was more rage inducing than the initial api change announcement.

I could be completely wrong though maybe that wasn’t on the 20th but feels like it was in my head canon

Same here, boost has been working the whole time, think it only went down this morning which is fine because I feel disgusted with myself Everytime I check my account. They’ve removed most of the mods that protested and actually gave somewhat of a shit and replaced them with people that don’t care about any of that and just wanted to mod. Spez might have had to take the protests a teeny bit more seriously if he didn’t have these new spineless mods to replace the old ones which is proven by the fact that he forcibly removed so many in the first place. So I feel icky when viewing any of those subs. Also yeah, he fucked over so many handicapped users removing their preferred 3pa. I know, “but accessibility features are excluded now” - but those that already had their acc. And preferred 3pa set up the way they like it will now have to figure that out which imo would be hard while blind…

Anyway I can’t wait for Boost to come here, that’s always been my preferred 3pa and if he’d hurry up and port it to Lemmy I’d feel complete again

What’s funny is I’ve been getting 10x more replies since the announced api changes which is odd. Before they were announced I would comment many times a day but rarely ever get many replies. Since the api change announcement? I’ve been staying off mostly bc fuck that place but when I have checked my account there have been 10-20 replies a day to older comments. Weird. Tin-foil-hat me feels like maybe there was a reduction of interaction after he screwed everyone over and maybe he’s using bots to make it seem lively. Definitely seen an increase in bot comments

Haven’t seen any identifiable bots here either, on redshit they were everywhere, comment stealers and just plain weird agenda having bots. I hope it doesn’t turn into that here, maybe since we haven’t really been saturated with bots yet some type of preventative protocol could be put in place? No idea what that would be but it would make sense

It’s insane how well this timeline syncs with reddit’s API bs!

From the very first day spez announced the API changes and steadily increasing until most of the 3pa shut down then BAM. Good for Lemmy and hopefully bad for reddit!