Censorship disguised as moderation. This is exactly what killed reddit. You can’t have a discussion over there without getting banned, it’s just individual echo chambers who all censor and ban each other
Hate to break it to you but reddit isn’t dead.
I still go on reddit. In a lot of ways it’s a lot worse than it used to be. It’s way more corporate. Huge portions of the site seem sanitized, often in obvious and eyeroll inducing ways. There’s also a lot less content in general. The content that does exist is lower effort, and way more repetitive.
However in some ways it’s genuinely better. The discourse is a lot less toxic than it used to be. A lot of genuine cruelty wrapped in virtue signaling that defined the site from 2018 to 2022 is either gone or greatly diminished. It’s also slightly less of an echo chamber.
I think what happened is that after the mobile apocalypse, a lot of the power users left the platform. While these people contributed a lot to the site, they were also extremely toxic people with an even more warped worldview.
The mods are a reflection of this. They are more corporate, which leads to a lot of censorship like this. However it also means that scrolling is quite a bit more pleasant.
Overall I spend more time on Reddit than Lemmy. There’s very little content here once you filter out all the outrage bait.
Digg died. Reddit will also die eventually.
You may be on the wrong communities, i could waste a day here. I actually use reddit for ragebait (i just can’t quit aitah)
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I didn’t ask for excuses for the censorship
I misread and deleted the comment almost as soon as I wrote it because I thought you were talking about Lemmy.
Or, hear me out, maybe people were tied of way too many posts in the community being about recent politics, so moderators took action on that?
It’s not a good look to be broadly banning those words, but it seems to me like there’s a reasonable and obvious expansion.
that’s easily dissuaded by no re-posts or reddits algorithm burying those. The problem was more likely because they were popular and highly engaged so they had to step in. Fucking “spez” is in there and you still feel the need to play devil’s advocate?
Usually when I’m tired of reading about a subject I just don’t click on those threads, I don’t censor people
Or maybe, its not actually an unpopular opinion!
It’s just a list of nouns and proper nouns. Depending on what your post is, it could be a very unpopular opinion! Censoring words is why I won’t ever go back to Reddit…
Don’t get me wrong, banning words is stupid and gives us the Scunthorpe problem and I am very glad that we have an alternative to Reddit because its just a cesspit.
The subreddit “r/unpopularOpinions” was not full of unpopular opinions, and the words banned were obviously popular opinions because everyone talked about them until the API change and the regime cracked down.
People think they have an unpopular opinion because they do not realize everyone with the same opinion was censored.
That’s the logic that ends dictators.
I don’t know about that. People post obviously popular opinions repeatedly if they aren’t banned.
Unpopular opinion, but I dislike the top ten Christmas songs
Yeah, no shit. Even though they are the “top ten”.
Luìgi Mangíone
Damnit. I just joined this site to try and get away from Reddit mods who are power hungry.
It’s a screenshot of Reddit not Lemmy.
But you are on .ml, which is one of the worst instances especially if you hate power hungry mods - also avoid .world.
I haven’t had any issues with .world… What should i be pissed about?
I’d suggest “nothing” for the time being.
There are a lot of different people around here, and different people get angry about different things. So there’s always going to be a lot of different bad things said about a large instance like lemmy.world. But whether or not those things are actually a real problem is for you to decide.
I ditched .world because of their euro-centric attitude on free speech regarding, specifically, jury nullification. Which is, as I pointed out, the critical final tool for us citizens to try and legally change unjust laws and/or unjust applications of it. It’s also older than the US, and the government hates it when anyone remembers it exists. To the point that lawyers are forbidden from mentioning it to juries in court. Because the ruling elite fear anything that gives the citizens the slightest shred of hope that we could upset their oppressive system. So duck them euros and their censorship bullshit.
I’m new to all this so you’re speaking French to me lmao. I feel like an old person. “Back in my day we just had .com .org and .net!”
.ml isn’t all that bad. I see a lot of whinging on about being banned “over nothing”, but the thing about Lemmy is removed comments are logged. More often than not, they’re lying.
Hilarious this is posted on lemmy.world.
Why? And I’m not being facetious, I honestly don’t know.
World mods and admins were VERY ban happy when the shooting first occurred. Even to the point they censored any discussion of jury nullification.
Who is this Liugi Mangonie?
He’s the guy who killed Brain Tomphson.
That was the COO of that Untied Hatecare, right?
*allegedly
he’s the guy they’re claiming did.
Innocent until proven guilty. Don’t do their work for them
No he didn’t. He was with me 10.000 miles away at the time.
This is true. I was also there. The three of us were making passionate, sloppy smooches.
Is there any other Squidward I should be aware of?
It’s true, I saw them.
you saw me with danekrae?!
That was you? You’re a good smoocher
Turns out hating on conservatists and praising ceo killers is too much of a popular opinion for that sub, is that what they want to say?
“Mario’s brother”
“The Mansion Owner”
“Splattered Brain Thompson”
“CE Oh shit the consequences of my actions!”
“the Orange Man”
Green Mario
Mr. L, aka “the Green Thunder”.
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“Gooigi”
“Green Man”
“The Italian”
“The Adjuster”
“L Man”
“LM”
“LLM”
And so on and so forth
“Wa-Waluigi”
What if it’s about some other guy named Brian? So stupid.
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There goes my beach boys roast post
Reddit unpopular opinion mods are bunch of cretins. They banned me for posting unpopular opinion 😂
r/unpopularopinion is for posting mostly popular opinions that some people nonetheless disagree with. Truly unpopular opinions, even well thought out ones, almost always get downvoted.
Because people are trained to downvote things that suck everywhere else on the Internet
What did you post?
Oh boy, time to breakout the non-ASCII look-a-like characters! Lol
Lets be honest it’s not like lemmy is any different, just on the other side of the fence. Probably even worse.
lemmy wasnt always like this. we got the worst of reddit coming in like they invented the federal universe.
federal universe.
Did you just make that up?
Consider a better instance.
lol
made me giggle ngl
no u
can’t, they banned me for my winnie the pooh
Had me in the first half
Uh ok
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That’s quite dumb. Besides blatantly violating the one site-wide rule we’ve been pretty lenient with here on Lemmy, you’re suggesting someone gives their life to rid us of Spez?!? THAT is your priority?
Uigi-lay Angione-may
What did you say about my mother?
What if I want to make an unpopular opinion on Luigi from the Super Mario Bros series?
Green Mario
