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  • The very same people who call effective, government-provided housing "ugly" are the ones who pay almost several grand a month for a cubicle with paper-thin walls. Crazy world we live in.

  • As long as everyone keeps a slab of corporate surveillance in their pocket that's only a few clicks away from another purchase and endless emotional response, the rich will keep winning. Food, water, and bed be damned.

  • The "he'll get sent off to die in the next war 3-4 years from now and leave me with a child to raise as a single mother and no reliable source of income aside from baseline support by family and neighbors if I'm lucky" look

  • Reddit @lemmy.world
    Evolith @lemmy.world

    Suspicion that Reddit is weeding out human users

    Was recently granted the privilege of a permanent ban on reddit for a username I had for over four years and it led me down the rabbit hole of seeing more and more claims from other people who went through similar experiences. Hell, there's a lot of them. Frivolous reports resulting in punishment, appeals being automatically denied, the works, etc.

    It might just be a presumption, seeing how many bots slide under the radar each day on that site through posts and comments, but I have a strong feeling that most (seemingly random) admin bans are designed to flush out active and semi-active human users rather than weed out bot code posing as people online. The end goal? Whether it's to create an automated, cyclical platform designed to extract marketing and ad revenue from a steady stream of new users or anything else for that matter, I know not. All I know for certain is that the ban tendencies have ramped up in the recent year and the people actually being punished for it are those who h