Edit: Oops, it is /r/Tennessee, not /r/ProgressiveHQ
A person in Tennessee defending pedophiles and abusing power in that pursuit?
Shocked, shocked I tell you.
What a power-tripping little dick energy cunt. God I fucking hate reddit.
That is why Lemmy exists. And I hope that even more people will start using it since new harsh Reddit policies have appeared.
Wow. Just fucking wow.
Does Facebook and X do similar types of censoring when it comes to the Republican agenda?
Or is it somehow easier to install them as mods on Reddit subs, making it appear to be more “grass roots” without blaming the platform itself for censorship and bias?
I guess of fb you have “groups” (as opposed to subs) where you could install similar “mods.”
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.
X probably does. Facebook seems to be more impartial. Not that it speaks much against Zuck’s support for the administration.
New study shows just how Facebook’s algorithm shapes conservative and liberal bubbles
The answer seems to be yes. After analyzing popular political news links posted on the platform between September 2020 and February 2021, the researchers found that there’s not much overlap between political news consumption within the two camps. Segregation also increases as a news link moves from being selected by the algorithm, to being seen by a user, to being interacted with.
That ideological gap was larger than what other research has shown for overall news consumption online and in traditional media.
“This borders on an indictment of Facebook’s algorithm,” said Laura Edelson, a computer scientist and postdoctoral researcher at NYU. She was not involved with the project but has done similar research and reviewed the studies’ findings. (In 2021, Edelson and her team were blocked from accessing Facebook after a clash over the data they were collecting.)
I assume with X you need to directly manipulate the algorithm to manipulate what appears in feeds. Which means you don’t have this plausible deniability by blaming a third party mod. OTOH it’s more difficult for a user to detect the platform doing algorithm manipulation and call out the platform because it’s just a black box to them.
Can’t except much better from a reddit mod team.
Expect?
Lemmy isnt Better, all the mod rejects from Reddit are mods on Lemmy and are using any tiny speck of power to do what Reddit mods would do
Thing is tho, you own r/bastard mods, you own it entirely
You own c/bastardmods.lemmy.bastard, people move to c/bastardmods.lemmy.fuckyou
Yeah volunteer mods almost always act like fief lords on any platform.
The type of person that would volunteer is precisely the type of person who shouldn’t be a mod, usually.
Shiiet. At least they awnser. Other mods just mute you for 30 days for asking and report you for harassment if write again afterwards.
We MUST Protect Jeffrey Epstein!
-Republicans!
We need to stop attacking pedophiles!
- Ted Cruz
If I recall a similar thing happened to the San Antonio subreddit. Something like it was taken over during the mod revolt, and the new mods seem to have very specific interests.
The /r/canada sub has long been controlled by far right people as well. There’s been an effort to seize control of city / state / country subs.
There are three Seattle subs because of this shit.
Not surprising. Most of the left-leaning people would’ve left by June 2023.
The San Antonio sub is the only one I’ve been banned from and all I did was make a well educated argument for a massive voter initiative. Fuck those guys.
Fucking Reddit.
Use protection
Tennessean here who tried to organize on my state/city subreddits. Can confirm this kind of partisan censorship is not new.
A while ago I made a innocuous enough post on my city’s sub about a “Release the Epstein Files” billboard that went up and was paid for by our local Mobilize chapter. Within an hour it was the most upvoted post of the past month. Within 2, it was removed without reason and I was blocked and banned permantly
That’s Reddit, I was banned from a Pokemon Go subreddit for being against Niantic forcibly leaving their sandbox environment on iOS.
We need to be careful on Lemmy. Only the fact that the moderators and admins have goodwill are keeping Lemmy from becoming like Reddit. If Lemmy gets big and starts attracting people who want to pay to take over communities, that will stretch the moderator goodwill to the limits.
The difference being that Lemmy supports multiple communities with the same name.
If an instance is allowing their communities to be sold, they can be defederated.
As the number of users goes up, it becomes more difficult to enforce that way. Even if many people switch communities, when new ones search for the community by name, the one with the most users will pop up first. And it becomes more and more difficult to justify defederating an instance over a couple of communities if the instance has a ton of big communities.
It makes me think that maybe “communities” wasn’t the way to organize, maybe you subscribe to a topic and see all posts for that topic on all instances.
But moderation is good, and defederation is too severe a tool to use for moderation. It feels like there is no good solution.It might be some sort of vetting to know all your users are real people.
I’ve considered setting up a Lemmy/Piefed for my neighborhood, but I’ve been told I’m unlikely to get the neighborhood off of our very active Facebook.
Piefed has topics I think (I’m mostly on mobile so not something I use but I remember it being there when I set up my account)
Which will make the return on investment questionable, especially if the whole thing gets meme’d into the spotlight. And if it doesn’t attract more attention, it probably didn’t need to be shut down in the first place.
This is why Reddit is garbage and anyone that still has an account on there is only fueling the fire. Fuck Reddit and their mods
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.
Ice soap and 2AM chili were peak reddit.
Knowledge is power. France is bacon.
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.
i mean lemmy def is better. we dont have one ahole controlling everything here.
Public mod log is a big accountability improvement over the absence of information Reddit has
But really it’s a human problem. As long as humans get power, they will misuse it. Perhaps not all, but some will.
Remember when the person behind GamingOnLinux decided to leave Lemmy after someone pointed out their community manipulation tactics in the modlog? Something that you have to assume they had been able to get away with as a Reddit mod. They then took to Mastodon or something to complain about how a modlog being public is “bad design”.
I absolutely have observed mods on Lemmy engaging in the same shitty behaviors (I am sitting on a post about a little cabal of [email protected] people who seem to be trying to rig the discourse in a particular direction to meet their electoral goals). But the simple fact of it being less centralized and more transparent (and with more of a culture of effective pushback against the mods) makes it a lot harder. They can’t just say “lol get fucked” like the mod from this post did and have that be the end of the story.
Plus federation means that the admins can’t just step in and shut down any competing communities unless they are on their instance. And if that happens, it just starts up on another instance.
I’ve seen the mod in that community delete comments that simply disagreed with them or called out their deletions. It’s always “harassment” or something no matter how polite people are being.
Honestly yes, I have not had much problems with mods (and admins!) deleting the words I’ve taken time out of my day to write.
Free Luigi Mangione!
You’ve been lucky.
I’ll give it more time then. I spent years on Reddit and intend to spend years here.
Modding attracts a certain type.
As part of the LW Community Team, I’ve tried to combat this in a couple ways.
One is that when we need moderators for a community I don’t just put up a post that says “who wants to mod?” Instead I try to draft specific individuals one at a time who are relevant to that community.
You wouldn’t believe how many people just tell me no. They have time to post to Lemmy a dozen times a day, but they just don’t have time to mod c/threepostsaweek
The other is that I try not to just keep recruiting mods we already have. It’s very easy to turn to the people already doing the modding and ask them to pick up just one more, but we’ve seen what that has done to Reddit, and I’d rather not repeat it.
But all this takes time and effort, and it doesn’t seem to have much effect yet. I probably just need to keep at it.
Exactly
I hope you realize Lemmy is just as bad, maybe even worse
We have MAGA mods suppressing voter turnout?
We have .ml propaganda blaming our only hope of resistance for everything the Nazis do.
It’s not much different from the projection tactic the GOP use. Just in this case it’s “you didn’t stop it”.
Ml dont have much influence and we can easily remove them by blocking or defederating them because no one controls lemmy and that is the beauty of lemmy.
That’s fair.
There’s also a handful of users on other instances that love bashing the dems for not being left enough or something. These are just a few nutters, not really moderators pushing agendas.
Many instances defederated .ml and you can block the instance.
Shirley, you jest…
(and yeah, am calling you Shirley…)
I’m not surprised the amount of propaganda here in Tennessee about that race is staggering.
I’m not in that district… But we still have commercials, radio and television along billboards and small signs.
So much spin both sides.
So weird to imagine having political adverts on television.
We have them here for big elections, kinda, but they’re special government mandated broadcasts that each party have access to in order to get their message out for free to ensure equal representation, otherwise you could have a situation where the party with the most money to burn could sway the election results in their favour with a bigger ad campaign.
the party with the most money to burn could sway the election results in their favour with a bigger ad campaign
in the US we get around this problem by having the same corporate and 1% donors funding all 2 of our political parties. so whether you vote for wage slavery or you vote for begrudgingly agreeing to wage slavery, you know your voice will be heard and you will die penniless and starving.
They have been playing ads on TV consistently for them. Hers saying she wants to help try to keep health insurance available, not get premiums raised and help the people of Tennessee.
His saying she’s a radical that was opposed to ICE agents and trying to bully them by blocking them with her car.
His ads have nothing policy based ever said, because it sounds like none of his policies help the people. I guess he is pro tariffs or something, idk
His saying she’s a radical that was opposed to ICE agents and trying to bully them by blocking them with her car.
Shit, that makes me want to vote for her more than her own ad. Someone willing to personally take action to stop the Gestapo?
The right never campaign on policy because if they did they wouldn’t get any votes.
Man, fuck reddit. If you aren’t a conservative anything can get you modded or banned.
Its fucking wild seeing people still talking about how biased reddit is against people on the right. Go onto any big subreddit and you’ll see their no politics rule means no left wing politics.
Yup. They whine constantly when they’re the ones getting left alone to say whatever horrible racist shit they want.
got to fan that flame as much as you can, the entire US right-wing identity is built around making “the left” suffer.
Same with Lemmy but in reverse…
Given that conservatism is just bigotry in a trench coat, I’ve no issue there.
What does progressivehq have to do with the Tennessee subreddit?
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Oops, you are 100% correct, I fixed the title.
That’s why Reddit is the shit hole it is.
Time to get in touch with Mr. Hoffstetter and point him and his millions of followers in this direction.
