Post is basically the title.

This subreddit is all about a series I quite enjoyed called The Nature of Predators. Or at least the first book . So far I can tell, there really isnt another place to discuss this series other than this subreddit. Over time, people have been making their own fan fiction work (as one does). Some are extremely good, at least I enjoyed it! But they stayed on reddit instead of other platforms to write their stories.

Fast forward to now. Reddit has been shadow-banning peoples accounts. Which makes it next to impossible to read their works. Thankfully some people have been saving some of the works on https://archiveofourown.org/ but its not complete.

Reddit is not a good place for anything you want to keep around. But im preaching to the choir here.

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    Reddit: run by bots, for bot users.

    Hope it goes exactly where it’s headed, a zero percent human userbase.

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    The question though is what’s your theory for them doing that?

    You can state all kinds of negative things about Reddit, but shooting themselves in the foot for no reason at all isn’t usually one of them IME.

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      I have no idea. Theres some thoeries the posts themselves, being large text with next links are triggering something in thier automod tools. But its all seculation. The only thing for certain is users are getting banned and thier posts removed.

      Theres a huge google doc with direct links to all the works so in thoery it should be easy to prove.

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        the relationship between publishers and fanfic authors has always been sorta shakey.

        It happens far too often. There are many fics I miss that were killed by reddit’s automated ban hammer. Thawed, Yin and Yang, Dragonfly, Arxur Hospitality (before it was resurrected) …and many others I’m probably forgetting.

        These ideas make some sense to me. With growing corporate buy-in and control of Reddit, it makes sense that it would be less and less a place allowed to challenge the copyright or money-making aspects of those entities.

        On top of that, Reddit turning more and more to automated moderation and underhanded control tactics, most people no longer seem to get the courtesy of a living employee actually reviewing these things and communicating upon issues.

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      This is the reddit community, which is why we are discussing reddit. I care because I liked some of the creations people made.

      My hope is people will start hosting on other platforms (Like archiveofourown), which is made for events like this. Maybe royal road as well (their own ads are their own which I kinda like).

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        Based. I care because personally I just got banned and came here to see what others are saying lol

        Just discovered Lemmy. Have been playing around a lot with Mirage in recent weeks and been enjoying it on there too but thought why not have a look here also to see!

        *was disappointed that I had to give my personal email to sign up here, didnt have to do that with Mirage

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      This is useful info for people who dip into Reddit for specific thinga that cannot be found elsewhere on the internet - you don’t have to like the place in order to use it for that sort of specific thing