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Yeah there are still mods at Rational_Liberty.
The suspension was related to some interactions I had on one of the larger subs (ill-advised, I know) which evidently crossed one of the increasingly strict lines about who you are and are not allowed to criticize harshly. I forget exactly what it was that apparently triggered the event, just that I genuinely felt it was unjustified.
I asked for clarification as to how it was actually violation but as one comes to expect no explanation was forthcoming.
They dinged my 10-year-old main account and alts all at once.
I was already posting almost exclusively to /r/themotte at that point and since they made the transition here it obviated any real need for an active account.
I was going to back off posting on reddit anyway since it's been a cesspool of censorship, bots, porn spam, controlled opposition (at best), and has ceased to have any influence on real world events, or to be an accurate window into real world events. Seriously, it is uncanny how the world-as-viewed-through-reddit is apparently utterly cut off from the world as it actually is according to my own two eyes and ears.
And when's the last time reddit coordinated to influence any current events in an impactful way?
So yeah. I still use Reddit when I'm looking up some specialized information on a particular sub (although ChatGPT is now my preferred go-to) but I've lost any urge to contribute my efforts to the site because what would be the point anymore?
One of my last posts on the site was pointing out how it had basically reduced to giving me cheap laughs by watching idiots interact in their natural habitat.
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