• octopus_ink@slrpnk.netEnglish
    21·
    3 days ago

    Ironically, I swing by old.shittyplace.com to check out /r/conservative and/or /r/askaconservative every so often to see if any of them are starting to figure it out yet (spoiler alert: they aren’t, or they are celebrating it), and they always have a first page thread about how Reddit is just a liberal recruiting mouthpiece these days etc etc.

    Today is no exception.

    And for a bonus they have a thread about how Ask Reddit is just out of control with bait for conservatives - I took a peek and there are two current threads that have anything at all to do with conservatives.

    The conservative persecution complex is strong, never fear.

    Remember, conservative voices must be getting silenced because they never shut the fuck up telling us so.

    • RunawayFixer@lemmy.world
      4·
      3 days ago

      Demonizing outside influences is common to all cults. It innoculates the cult members to those outside influences, leading them to immediately disregard information that contradicts their cultist beliefs, keeping them trapped within the cult’s echo chamber more effectively. To keep the cultists innoculated, they have to constantly remind them that they and their beliefs are being persecuted and that the only source of truth, is the cult leaders.

      That said, how “real” is r/conservative? I just checked it and every single thread is flaired users only. It’s a far more controlled echo chamber than the Donald was in it’s heyday, and when the Sint-Petersburg troll farm was brought offline during the usa elections of 2018, the Donald was gone from reddit’s front page for the duration.

      To me it seems like r/conservative is a method of distributing the current narrative to cultists, but it doesn’t require actual input or discussion from those cultists. It seems to actually discourage posting by normal conservative users, since any kind of wrongthink will lead to a ban, and it’s hard to keep up with the changing narratives for normal users, so catching a ban is easy.

  • Phoenicianpirate@lemm.eeEnglish
    18·
    4 days ago

    Trump is openly preparing to invade both Canada and Mexico and these motherfuckers are bitching about Musk being called what he is!

  • Houseman@lemmy.worldEnglish
    14·
    3 days ago

    I just got a violent content warning for upvoting someone calling musk a “stupid person’s version of a smart man” on a post about his trucks being vandalized.

  • drhodl@lemmy.world
    352·
    4 days ago

    I got perma banned from my OG account for engaging with ruzzian trolls. Apparently telling them they’d look good fertilizing sunflowers, and digging babushka a fresh latrine pit is “promoting violence”. No warnings, just straight to ban. Reddit allows obvious ruzzian gas lighters, but bans those who call them out. That is Reddit today, a hotbed of ruzzian and nazi propaganda.

    • Gammelfisch@lemmy.world
      11·
      4 days ago

      Same here, I simply made a comment about “the Muscovites receiving a dose of their own medicine” and fucking Russian shill, Putin Bot and/or MAGAt reported me. To top it off, I did not use a single swear word in the comment. Fuck Russia and Reddit.

      • drhodl@lemmy.world
        11·
        4 days ago

        It’s hilarious how magats don’t like free speech when it’s directed against them. Bunch of loathesome pussies.

      • Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish
        6·
        4 days ago

        i always commented on many of those subs, how alot of them are just russian bots/trolls, and people respond to these posts like its an actual person doing it, no its all russia. Half of the comments are more than likely russian bots, if reddit actually DOES ITS JOBS, reddit would be a very quiet place. i get that theres alot from US propaganda farms, but it pales in comparison to russia.

      • TronBronson@lemmy.world
        2·
        3 days ago

        The ‘z’ for me emphasizes the fact that not all russians are war hungery, ignorant ruzzians. Just like all Americans are not Magatz

      • drhodl@lemmy.world
        41·
        4 days ago

        It’s derogatory. It’s a play on the stupid “Z” they had on all their vehicles when they invaded Ukraine. “Cuntistan” would probably have got me banned. Anyway, I’ll misspell the names of any country I loathe, as much as I like :)

    • Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish
      5·
      4 days ago

      i got temp ban, for reporting trolls, lol. apparently reporting more than once in arbitrary amount of time, is considered report abuse. its the same type of comments you hear from .ml false, pushing a botty narrative.

    • TronBronson@lemmy.world
      2·
      3 days ago

      There has been a recent flood of pro-russia pro-trump moderators in almost all the reddit subs i frequent. I also just got a permanant ban for evasion to post this. “It wasn’t enought to just amplify the idiots voices, they have to smother the voices of reason and doubt” Apparently that was uncivil way to speak about the mods.

    • steelrat@lemmy.worldEnglish
      26·
      4 days ago

      Always with the lame death threats from a basement. It’s the one rule of reddit.

      • drhodl@lemmy.world
        51·
        4 days ago

        There was no death threat from me, and what else do you suggest when dealing with a gas lighter or out and out liar? Just lie back and take it?

  • Cinder Bloc @lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    3 days ago

    I’m about at my wits end with Reddit as a regular user. I have 2 accounts that I’ve used there for a while. One of them is my main user account, the other I use mostly to mod some subs.

    My main account recently caught a 7 day ban because of their stupid new “Violence” bullshit. It’s so targeted, and blatantly obvious that it really only applies to comments about certain things. They removed the comment that supposedly triggered it, but all I was was

    Hey Leon, you remember when you hit the cybertruck with a baseball bat? Why don’t you go fuck yourself with it.

    That’s it, that’s all I said. You could post that same comment directed at an actual Reddit user, and not catch a ban.

    Don’t misunderstand me here. I am not now, nor have a I ever been under the delusion that Reddit was the bastion of free speech they tried to claim for years. But seriously, they need to get their fucking heads out of their fucking asses.

    • Zedd_Prophecy@lemmy.world
      1·
      2 days ago

      They won’t get their heads out of their asses. This recent censorship caused me to delete 13 years of comments and posts and delete my account entirely. Good riddance.

        • Zedd_Prophecy@lemmy.world
          2·
          1 day ago

          I tried a Chrome plugin that had the limitation of 50 comments / posts a day but required money to do more. I had the day off, so I ended up doing it manually. Was a real trip seeing all the comments and stuff I’d forgotten about from all those years ago when Reddit was still a cool place and people were mostly cool.

  • Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world
    1221·
    5 days ago

    Because those who appease our new robot overlords will be handsomely rewarded! (Or at least tortured slightly less)

  • Red_October@lemmy.world
    37·
    5 days ago

    It’s become pretty clear that Reddit has chosen to slide into corpo-fascism. Don’t be surprised when signs of dissent are squashed, when rebellious subreddits are systematically suppressed until they’re removed entirely, when the accounts of those who resist are closed and IP banned. Abandon all hope of free expression there, they’ve chosen their side and aren’t going to entertain the opposition any longer.

    • barneypiccolo@lemm.eeEnglish
      27·
      4 days ago

      After 12 years, and nearly a million karma, i was permabanned right after HitlerPig was inaugurated, for repeating an opinion that i have stated many times. Nobody ever said a word until HitlerPig was in office, then suddenly I was permabanned. I came over to Lemmy, only to find i wasn’t alone.

      I suspect the reason is because Ohanion wamts to buy TikTok, and he knows that HitlerPig will be making the decision personally, based on who smooches his ass, follows his orders, and pays the biggest bribe. So as a show of good faith, he abandons Reddit’s doctrine of Free Speech.

      • berno@lemmy.world
        11·
        4 days ago

        Reddit’s doctrine of Free Speech.

        lol. this is the company that to this day makes zero mention of Aaron Swartz as a cofounder.

        • tischbier@feddit.orgEnglish
          5·
          4 days ago

          Man that is such a painful travesty. I can’t imagine trashing your friend and cofounder into the trash like that after what happened. We will remember Aaron.

    • NutWrench@lemmy.mlEnglish
      11·
      4 days ago

      This is the advantage of decentralized platforms like Lemmy. One billionaire can’t screw things up for millions of users. They would have to take over all 600 Instances in many different countries to control it.

  • Jaberw0cky@lemmy.world
    261·
    4 days ago

    I deleted my reddit account yesterday. I used Revedit and I realised that most of the comments I had made on there had been removed or hidden without me ever realising…

    • REDACTED@infosec.pubEnglish
      12·
      4 days ago

      I was blown away by how many completely normal comments (just part of discussions, not even political) have been removed. Pretty sure reddit automod is broken and I’m not sure if reddit devs are even aware of it

      • SirQuack@feddit.nl
        2·
        4 days ago

        I’m not sure if reddit devs are even aware of it

        They likely are, but management is also likely rejecting any attempts to fix it.

    • ChanchoManco@lemm.ee
      12·
      4 days ago

      I deleted my account yesterday too, I came to Lemmy on the API Exodus and very occasionally checked Reddit but never came around to delete my account until now. Same with my Twitter account.

  • DarkFuture@lemmy.worldEnglish
    841·
    5 days ago

    Because Reddit has chosen the wrong side of history.

    Just like multiple German companies did when Hitler and his fascists rose to power.

          • thanks AV@lemmy.world
            6·
            4 days ago

            We should have been doing it a lot more. I might have been fooled into believing america was a great country if we put the actual people committing harm against the country and it’s people on death row instead the guy who killed two people because they’ve been a victim of systemic abuse their entire life. Systemic abuses enabled by the very same capitalists that get fined2% of their profit for creating the conditions for 400 murderers to be forged in this hell-fire.

            When the baby formula shortage happened all those ceos should have been on federal trial for crimes against humanity but nooooooo they have a responsibility to shareholders that makes them inculpable for material harm their business decisions caused millions of infants.

            At least in China they execute the billionaire that poisons formula for more profit.

  • Jucha@lemmy.world
    6·
    3 days ago

    Removing stuff from reddit will make people look for alternatives, good for lemmy.

  • Hikuro-93@lemmy.ca
    43·
    5 days ago

    Yup. Also got my account suspension due to “suspicious activity” on “upvoting and engaging with discriminatory and violent content”.

    Meaning I upvoted posts condemning US’s current position, and correcting the swarm of misinformation by US shills.

    Glad I finally managed to nuke my entire reddit history and delete my account. F’ that toxic cesspool. R/Europe and other euro-canadian subs already felt like more US and Russian shills were active than actual europeans or canadians.

    • barneypiccolo@lemm.eeEnglish
      10·
      4 days ago

      As soon as HitlerPig was inaugurated, I was permabanned after 12 years and almost a million Karma. I was sad at first, but more and more, Reddit is filled with bots, trolls, punsters, novelty accounts, and plenty of other nonsense. 50% of most comment sections were bullshit, and its been increasingly difficult to have a good faith discussion without it breaking down because of a flood of bad faith contributions.

      I’ve come to terms with the idea that im better off. Without vigorous discussion, what good is Reddit?

      • Hikuro-93@lemmy.ca
        8·
        4 days ago

        Precisely that. If a forum meant for discussion has its credibility compromised, what good is it as a discussion platform?

        It’s one thing disagreeing with one’s PoV or not tolerating actual aggressive/toxic behavior. It’s another entire thing to censor opinions written with civility and arguments, or allow for bots to derail any meaningful discussion and demotivate/shame people for what they believe in. En masse, at that.

        I am willing to learn another person’s PoV if it differs from my own - heck, if they make a compelling argument and present facts I had not considered I might even change my stance on the subject.

        But simply discussing in bad faith and relying solely on insults or disinformation, plus an unwillingness to also consider other people’s PoV is not the way to reach common ground on differing positions. That’s when I realize that person is playing around and I might as well not give them their fix of dopamine.

    • tischbier@feddit.orgEnglish
      8·
      4 days ago

      I had all my comments admin removed that were criticizing Russia from an academic perspective and academic tone. I even cite and quote well respected interns relations journals that are totally neutral to traditional conservative in leaning. Nope.

      What’s so utterly bizarre is that the “conservative” community on Reddit keeps blasting that it’s “ultra-left.” If plainly stating “Russia’s war time economy is something I don’t like” is “ultra-left” then I am fucked and probably already on a list haha

    • Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish
      3·
      5 days ago

      i felt like r/europe was very “r/politics”-like, i distinctly remember one of my old acc was banned from there from a certain comment about ukraine, right before the banning madness began. and then one of the ukraine subs, r/ukraine or ukrainewareport was also getting more restrictive.