Reddit says the “vast majority” of users won’t be affected.
  • Furbag@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    12 days ago

    Friendly reminder that almost all news media outlets and social media platforms are owned by a handful of extremely wealthy individuals and they are in full control of the algorithm that feeds you content, so you’ll likely never see anything that is critical of them or advocates for them to have less power or influence than they do.

    This is the 2025 version of “The revolution won’t be televised”.

    • adm@lemm.eeEnglish
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      12 days ago

      Yep, the internet used to be counter culture. Now it’s controlled opposition at best.

  • LWD@lemm.eeEnglish
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    13 days ago

    Just keep in mind: your upvotes on Lemmy are visible to anybody who runs a Lemmy instance.

    God help us if Elon Musk figures out how to run one.

    ETA: I mention this because the current government wants to find anyone who does this.

    The [unelected president] moaned on his platform that some Reddit users on the subreddit r/WhitePeopleTwitter had broken the law after they allegedly revealed the identities of his so-called DOGE goon squad.

  • ddash@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    14 days ago

    Well, exactly the same can and is happening on specific Lemmy servers too.

    One of the vegan instances bans you if you downvote anything that speaks in favour of veganism. Not that I just do this out of spite, but there was this time where a thread about vegan cat food gained traction and I downvoted some comments that were really borderline. Ban within an hour.

    Same on that notorious star trek instance. Go ahead and put some downvotes on Discovery related posts, it will also earn you a temporary ban.

    So let’s not pretend that it’s only big bad reddit doing this.

    • Billiam@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      13 days ago

      I feel like there’s a difference between various moderators power-tripping on their own little fiefdoms, and a site wide policy.

    • lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      14 days ago

      Social media should never be corporate, ever. Fuck reddit, fuck Meta, fuck LinkedIn, and all the rest.

      Except Tom from Myspace, he’s cool.

      • stardust@lemmy.caEnglish
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        13 days ago

        Tom from MySpace taking the money and enjoying life away from the limelight instead of seeking more wealth and power seems more along the lines of what most people fantasize about when it comes to what they’d do if they were rich. All the other rich fucks actively go out of their way to make as many people as miserable as possible.

  • KulunkelBoom@lemm.eeEnglish
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    12 days ago

    One would think that banned content couldn’t be voted upon. Sounds like reddit is using any excuse to censor any use other than “sponsored”.

    • socialjusticewizard@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      12 days ago

      I got suspended because I was banned from a sub years ago on a different account, and I can’t block that subreddit. Accidentally commented on r/all, instantly suspended for ‘ban evasion’. I didn’t make a secret of the alt account, I made it to avoid doxxing. I didn’t want to comment on the subreddit, I’d block it from my feed if I could. Reddit knew I was banned and could have just kept me from posting there in the first place. Instead, suspension for evasion. Their whole setup is truly bizarre.

      Anyway it dramatically reduced my doomscrolling so it wasn’t a bad thing

  • Manifish_Destiny@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    12 days ago

    Hey to everyone moving in from reddit. Don’t forget that lemmy can’t fill the void you’re trying to fill without content.

    Thanks to the federated nature of lemmy, we have infrastructure, we just need more creators on it.

  • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
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    14 days ago

    Reddit will now issue warnings to users who “upvote several pieces of content banned for violating our policies” within “a certain timeframe,” starting first with violent content, the company announced on Wednesday.

    Hmm. What does this pertain to?

    kagis

    https://www.theverge.com/news/606904/reddit-rules-bans-violence-doxing-elon-musk-doge

    Reddit has seen an increase in rule-breaking posts across “several communities,” and it has issued a temporary ban on one that featured users calling for violence against people who work for the Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

    That community, r/WhitePeopleTwitter, was given a 72-hour ban on Tuesday, as reported by Engadget. Screenshots shared on X show multiple examples of the threatening posts. Musk later reposted the screenshots, claiming that the users have “broken the law.”

    In a note on the subreddit, Reddit says it was banned “due to a prevalence of violent content” and that “inciting and glorifying violence or doxing” violate Reddit’s rules. An unnamed Reddit admin said the ban was meant to be a “cooling-off period” for the community.

    Reddit also gave a full ban to a subreddit called r/IsElonDeadYet for violating rules “against posting violent content.” The unnamed admin said Reddit is taking steps “to ensure all communities can provide a safe environment for healthy conversation” in a post on r/RedditSafety.

    Ah.

  • IsThisAnAI@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    13 days ago

    Same shit happens here and you know if. Anyone with any user count is heavily moderating violence.