They got rid of all of us mods who didn’t bow and kiss the ring and the star.

Now all that’s left is the worst of the mods.

What is the charge? Eating a meal? A succulent Chinese Thai meal?

At one point it was a glorious place. Then 5 people became admins and mods of the most popular 100 sub reddits and began controlling the narrative to fit their beliefs. In my opinion reddit has been dead for at least 5 years now

Front page, I believe was what they called themselves. But yeah, it’s been a glorious fall.

Lets be clear though, reddit is only worse than lemmy because it is centralized by one group of douchebags.

Lemmy has plenty of shitty moderation too, and arguably is worse at dealing with it within any given instance due to the lack of proper mod tools, the way posts that are deleted remove entire comment sections from being accessible, the lack of any appeals system and I’m sure a few other things I don’t remember off the top of my head.

Its a people problem, and its a style of organization problem with this style of forum.

I dunno why, can’t really put my finger on it, but I have this slight hunch that it might be related to fascism in some way.

So what you’re saying is that it’s a small corner of the Internet problem eh? ;)

Twitter and Facebook are bad as well.

Ask a question or express an opinion that goes against the group think on .ml

Lemmy is worse than Reddit because it thinks it’s pure but it isn’t.

Yeah but greedy little pig boy Spez just became a billionaire, so it was worth sacrificing your speech for his wealth.

To which I disagree.

With all the cases on reddit where it seems that outcome serves republicans - there is a counter-argument of how most major subs are democrat-sided subs. Maybe mods are republicans, but still user base is majority of democrats. r/pics, r/adviceanimals, r/therewasanattempt, r/clevercomebacks, r/facepalm - these were never primarily about politics. And now they are and these are only democrat-sided.

Or, maybe, it is astroturfing and political bots swarm these subs. Who knows at this point?

This raises the question: Is there somebody else on that sub posting about the special election? There should be enough Tennesseans that at least one of them should post there.

You are guessing, but they already said why, so we have no need to guess.

That is why Lemmy exists. And I hope that even more people will start using it since new harsh Reddit policies have appeared.

Pretty common if Reddit mods and admins these days. I’ve been banned from so many communities for being right in the face of mod ignorance.

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Facebook, Twitter and Reddit all have a history of silencing by shadowbans and most people have no idea. There’s a billion different ways to silence you on each of these.

Reddit moderation has been pretty comprehensively captured by bad actors.

I think left wing content on Xitter just gets suppressed, not deleted. Since buying a checkmark gets your posts boosted to the top of the algorithm, and right wingers are far more likely to give money to the Nazi bar.

But, I haven’t used it in a long time, so I could be mistaken. When I gave up on it, I was being shown almost nothing but alt right shit regardless of how many accounts I blocked/muted or what posts I interacted with, though. (And pretty much the only other content I’d get was porn and gore that I didn’t want to see.) And every search would show me a hearty mix of Nazi propaganda and porn, no matter how irrelevant.

Designing an opinion platform with “volunteer” mods is asking for agenda-driven operatives to volunteer.

X probably does. Facebook seems to be more impartial. Not that it speaks much against Zuck’s support for the administration.

I would expect Twitter to be a huge conservative circle jerk, but it really is not. I think the fighting between the two sides is good for business. I also would expect TikTok to do so as well, and maybe it will once Ellison takes over, but so far that’s the best boots on the ground source for seeing real events happening in real time, even if it conflicts with whatever bullshit narrative is spun out of the event.

Reddit’s glory days were when it was big enough to have consistently interesting stuff, especially in the niche subs, but not so big that bad actors (corporatization, foreign influence, domestic partisan bots, hate groups) could enshitify it. Now it’s practically unusable.

I finally left the platform entirely a few months ago, but for a time I maintained an account for discussion on hobby and niche topics. Nothing political, and it would be a real stretch to call any of it controversial. After I got a very dubious account suspension, I just said “fuck it” and moved on.

Can’t say I miss it either. It’s a fucking cesspool.

I hope you realize Lemmy is just as bad, maybe even worse

You think Lemmy is better? Mods here are engaging in the same shitty behaviours. Lack of moderator accountability is a serious issue on this platform.

Edit: brigading just proves my point, you dumb fucks.