Mike Hardaker, who has maintained a Reddit account for 20 years, has been shadow-banned on Reddit. He has posted an update on X, stating that Reddit requires an ad spend to restore organic posting. This demand was given to him in writing.

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    2 hours ago

    Remember when users used to flood reddit subs to find support, real opinions, express dissatisfaction, criticize bad feature/products, and warn others?

    Now, the people who complain get flooded by astroturfing bots run by marketing agencies to say they’re holding it wrong, not important enough, doing something wrong while praising corporation overtaking governments.

    Now that Google has partnered with reddit, they get to have many searches sending troves of people there expecting solutions or like minded people or community support.

    So, yea there are still people.