Musk 'Pressured' Reddit CEO to Silence DOGE Critics, Leaving Moderators Outraged: Report.

[zenitsu@sh.itjust.works]

I got perma banned for calling a magat regarded and telling them to stop eating crayons, under rule 1:

Reddit is a place for creating community and belonging, not for attacking marginalized or vulnerable groups of people. Everyone has a right to use Reddit free of harassment, bullying, and threats of violence. Communities and users that incite violence or that promote hate based on identity or vulnerability will be banned.

lol. The small and marginalized group of election winning fascists.

[wide_eyed_stupid@lemmy.world]

The mierdas touch!

[wide_eyed_stupid@lemmy.world]

Yeah same, I guess time flies when you're bombarded with shit 24/7

[Guest]

Reddit is dead to me and I was with it since near the beginning.

[nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

My God they've pissed off Hitler

[dfx4509b_2@lemmy.org]

I'd argue Lemmy and other decentralized platforms are the last bastion for free speech instead of Reddit though.

[yarharsuperstar@lemmy.world]

Add reddit. FRAGMAT? MAF G RAT? MAGA FRT? Oh thats not bad

[hudell@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

I actually pay extra to my internet provider for a fixed ip so that I may have a privilege of being permabanned

[charlxmagne@lemmy.world]

"Free speech absolutist"

[djsp@feddit.org]

For anyone who doesn't know: this is a clever reference to the myth of Midas' Touch that I'm totally stealing.

[fmtx@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

Same. Joined at the Digg migration. Left at the 3rd party App-ocolypse. Reddit is dead. Or perhaps it's more accurate to say that it's a zombie: with more bots than actual human users, it's the Dead Internet Theory in action.

[droans@midwest.social]

There was that peak time back in the 2010s. Right after they got rid of all the worst hate communities but before they were taken over by astroturfing.

Maybe like 2014-2015ish?

[droans@midwest.social]

I'd argue Lemmy and other decentralized platforms are the last bastion for free speech instead of Reddit though.

Lemmy is kind of forced to be, too.

Horrific speech can be removed from the site. But if you want to see it, the admin logs are open to the public. Other instances also aren't forced to play along with the views of one instance. And each instance can choose whether they want to connect with others.

So you could create your own Christian Nationalist and White Supremacist Lemmy. But our instances don't have to federate with it. And if they choose to do so, we can leave for a different one or the users can block it entirely.

Lemmy lets anyone have a platform and, simultaneously, it doesn't force anyone to listen to you just because you have your own platform. Basically, everything that makes Lemmy a decentralized platform also makes it good for moderation without harming free speech.

[droans@midwest.social]

Haven't gotten banned yet but it's definitely gotten to the point on Reddit where you are aware that you can't discuss some topics.

Like mentioning Luigi could get you shadow-banned. Redditors acted like they were going to stand up against this and yet there's nothing. So the censorship is working - either all the comments are getting removed or people are too afraid to talk about it.

[Guest]

Honestly, I wish I knew - I tried creating new accounts from both home and other Wi-Fi networks, and they all got banned within an hour. Our daughter still lives with us and her account was banned too, same thing happened when she tried creating new accounts. I'm assuming it may be tied to the MAC addresses of my laptop and phone, but not sure.

[droans@midwest.social]

That's not even recent. Russia has been astroturfing Reddit since at least 2015.

I remember reading /r/politics pretty often back then. All of a sudden, half the posts were from RT talking about Hillary and the DNC. Yes, what they did to Bernie was bullshit but the point was clearly to either get people to vote for Trump instead or to encourage people not to vote.

Now, like you said, it's about the war. All of a sudden, every single post about the invasion has dozens of people who are totes Ukrainian and think that Zelenskyy is a monster who refuses to end the war. Yet they either have a rather bare post/comment history or never mentioned the war before.

And, if you go to the profile for any user who identified themselves as Ukrainian years ago, it's crazy but they're still in favor of the war and protecting Ukraine.

This is what propaganda is. It's not just the government putting up posters saying you should listen to them; it's convincing you that your views are extreme and unpopular.

[xenomor@lemmy.world]

I’m old enough to remember when Elon released “the twitter files” in an attempt to demonstrate how the federal government supposedly exerted egregious pressure on private media in violation of first amendment right.

[the_crotch@sh.itjust.works]

regarded (sic)

Surely you can insult musk without being ableist though? There's 500,000 words in the English language. Choose one that doesn't drag innocent people into it.

[the_crotch@sh.itjust.works]

He has his own instance? Lol

[rizzothesmall@lemm.ee]

Because Reddit mods are known for not being massive corruptable stooges?