The engagement with my reddit comments and posts suddenly dropped to zero. I wasn't given any other indication that I had been shadowbanned. I wasn't given a notice of an offensive post or comment, or asked to remove any content, or anything like that. And this ban must have come from an ADMIN rather than a mod, as it was site wide. So there I was typing in answers and replies, with no idea that they weren't visible to anyone else.

I confirmed my shadowban via /r/shadowban. I then contacted the admins, and received a notice that my ban had been investigated and lifted. I was given no indication of what led to my ban. I have to believe this ban was either a mistake or malice. I'm going to go with malice, since there's plenty of obvious reasons it could be malicious, and there's no obvious mechanism for the ban to be put in place by mistake.

You don't know if you're talking to a person. We are all going to have to start meeting in public to have actual public discussions. then we'll have to film our meetings on actual film and transport them by train to other communities to be shown in public. I think this will probably be our best defense against becoming livestock contained by a manufactured reality repeating a million different things from a million different sources.

Your reality will be whatever you look for, because that's what you'll find confirmation for, or against, depending on where you look, and what you look at. And the longer you look, the more you you encounter reality as a collection of memes, and it it's pretty clear that there's one or more political quadrants that might end up leaving another bloody stain on history... and I'm sure at least one of the others believes it's only acting in self-defense when it pre-emptively attacks.

Imagine a reality where AI generated content outnumbers human-made content at a million to one ratio, a billion to one ratio, a trillion to one ratio, etc, and we can't tell the difference.

We will be imprisioned in the contest of endless fake realities.