• artyom@piefed.social
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    2 days ago

    The block seemed curious, given that Reddit began as a website, and websites generally want traffic. Few are in the practice of turning traffic away.

    My man hasn’t used the internet in a while…

    The vast majority of social media platforms are in the practice of denying access in order to coerce you into logging in or downloading their app so that they can mine your data and harass you into coming back.

    Some of that probably has to do with AI scraper bots as well.

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      3 hours ago

      Yeah they booted me while I was on the app for my comment so they wanted me gone.

      They got what they wanted if the intention was to keep me away. I wasn’t the only one I don’t think, I have a feeling the post (which from memory was on the world news sub) had a few people on it that got booted at the same time.

      My comment was agreeing with a Muslim that the bloke who disarmed that Bondi shooter and didn’t shoot him was that he is a man of peace based on religion as many of them are.