There’s only one social media site that’s still the same as it was a decade ago. The only problem is that it was never good.
“During October, we have seen that search traffic has dropped by more than 1 million referrals on average per week. If this rate of decline continues, current trends would suggest that total DAUqs [or daily active unique users] could fall in Q4, by a low-double-digit percentage from our current base of 130 million DAUqs,” Huffman wrote.
Weird that not allowing people to use your site would lower the number of people using your site.
It’s just shitty that so much useful information is on reddit.
Fuck /u/spez
Greedy little fuckboy
*pigboy
When I stopped using reddit a few years ago, I left my account intact because I had 18 years of posts that included a lot of tech help and other useful information that I figured people might stumble across.
Last night, I used Redact to scramble all 5,521 comments.
I’ve soon been on here for 3 years now and made almost 11,700 comments in that time (which I personally find must be a miscount somehow, that sounds insane). So anyway, I was on Reddit for over 11 years. Extrapolating these numbers kind of boggles my mind a bit.
I envy you. I was a little too outspoken which led to my account being banned, and now I can’t do anything about my existing trove of data I foolishly created for them
Redact is owned by a real piece of shit that holds onto that information for potential blackmail. FYI.
Velma, I believe you, but are there other sites you can recommend? Also, I couldn’t find any news on this.
Here’s an older Lemmy thread about Redact
Here’s a more in depth look at who Dan Saltman is:
Dan Saltman is a tech entrepreneur and political podcaster who leverages his platform to advance Zionist interests, targeting pro-Palestine voices and justifying Israel’s ongoing settler-colonial project in occupied Palestine.
As founder of TinyChat — a video chat platform acquired in 2014 after receiving $1.5 million in funding from Sean “Diddy” Combs, amid allegations of its use in predatory behavior — Saltman built his career in online communications. He now serves as CEO of Redact.dev, a service that deletes users’ digital footprints, which he promotes amid his own involvement in online activism. Saltman co-hosts the “Anything Else” podcast with Steven Bonnell II (Destiny), where he discusses politics and amplifies pro-Israel views to Western audiences.
Saltman has repeatedly portrayed pro-Palestine advocacy as support for terrorism, directly accusing streamer Hasan Piker of promoting “terrorist propaganda” and “Hamas recruitment videos.” In September 2025, he endorsed calls to ban Piker from Twitch, claiming Piker’s content encourages violence and supports terrorist organizations, while framing criticism of Israel as antisemitism. This rhetoric dehumanizes Palestinians by equating their resistance to Israel’s occupation with inherent threats, perpetuating consent for settler violence.
Saltman orchestrated a widespread disinformation campaign against Twitch, accusing the platform of fostering antisemitism by allowing pro-Palestine speech. He mobilized supporters to pressure advertisers, leading to temporary pauses in spending by companies like JPMorgan and AT&T in late 2024. This effort aimed to suppress voices critical of Israel’s actions in Gaza, where the confirmed death toll exceeds 40,000 — a conservative estimate, as Israel’s destruction of infrastructure and targeting of journalists has halted accurate counting, with the actual number slaughtered well into the hundreds of thousands. Saltman’s actions align with broader Zionist efforts to weaponize antisemitism accusations against dissent, shielding Israel from scrutiny over its apartheid policies and ethnic cleansing in the West Bank and Gaza.
His associations extend to content creators like Ethan and Hila Klein of the H3 Podcast and Destiny’s community, with whom he has collaborated on attacks against Piker, viewing him as a threat due to his effective advocacy for Palestinian liberation. Saltman’s push to repeal Section 230 appears motivated by a desire to further censor online criticism of Israel. Twitch banned him indefinitely in November 2024 for “extreme harassment,” including doxxing and targeting employees who refused to comply with his demands.
This pattern of behavior is not isolated but part of a consistent effort to normalize Israel’s settler-colonialism, obscure Palestinian suffering under occupation and genocide, and manufacture public consent for ongoing violence.
Some additional info on the type of harassment campaigns that Dan Saltman engages in.
App claims it’s stored locally, so I don’t know.
Any source on the blackmail claim?
Ereddicate is the FOSS option, but reddit broke it permanently a year ago.
Jeeez, I was thinking about using them to scramble my Meta accounts, thanks for the info!
No problem! It can be hard to keep track of everyone behind the scenes, so to speak.
Whelp, glad I didn’t give him any money then.
In other news, Reddit stock is down a whopping 28% today.
What is a Reddit? /s
It’s super funny to me. They’re so greedy to keep our content that we gave them for free, that they’re going to commit a slow digg.
This is about monetizing AI scraping, right? Gonna be interesting to see how Reddit handles the bubble popping. They’ve torpedoed the regular user experience for it.
Oh no!
Anyway
Fuck /u/spez
King Steven the Turd, Greediest of Pigboys, cares not for the privacy of his subjects. All the data are belong to Him!
Lol, good. This will destroy their traffic as Google searches will end in a login request.
Haha!
I just blocked the domain from my dns and search results on ddg.
They really want to kill it don’t they
