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    • SomeGuyNamedPaul@beehaw.org
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      2 years ago

      I demodded myself from shittyadvice before I destroyed my account, but prior to that I posted my idea for what SA should do. I’m convinced that sub exists to cordon off all the trolls so they don’t ruin the rest of Reddit but giving shitty advice elsewhere. My plan was just lock the sub but tell everybody in there to spread the love and Make Reddit Shitty Again, aka MRSA. We’d spread like an incurable disease.

      • Thrashy@beehaw.org
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        2 years ago

        I was going to make a comment about how I confused “SA” for Something Awful, but as I continued to read I saw it was still an apt analogy…

    • snoopfrog@beehaw.org
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      2 years ago

      I realized that Lemmy being slightly more difficult to get started would mean that the user base will be smaller, but fewer low-effort people would make the switch, so it’s really a plus.

      • your_mind_aches@sh.itjust.works
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        2 years ago

        I disagree. Us more tech-savvy people will come across, sure. But most people aren’t. And they have hobbies and jobs too, and want a place to gather online for that.

          • pain_is_life_is_pain@beehaw.org
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            2 years ago

            Same, but I figure I can check in once in a while on the few subreddits that I’m interested in. Some of the subreddits also have a presens on discord, so that could also be an option.

          • StringTheory@beehaw.org
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            2 years ago

            There are DIY communities on the Solarpunk and Beehaw instances that I am subscribed to. Looking good so far!

          • pbjamm@beehaw.org
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            2 years ago

            Its not rocket surgery. It only seems complicated because it is new. Once you get past the sign up phase and figure out how to find Communities it is easy-peasy.

        • Ataraxia@lemmy.world
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          2 years ago

          And that’s fine. They will find their place. I’ll take a smaller community of tech savvy and people willing to learn over a large community of toxic argumentative people. If you’re not willing to learn something new it can be a reflection on how well you’ll get along with other people. I don’t care if someone is religious or what their political beliefs are but I am not interested in reading about how trans people need to be executed or how women should not have rights. I don’t care to open my notifications and see some psycho’s message saying I’m not doing my duty and God will punish me for not being interested in having kids. Many of these people go out of their way to verbally assault and threaten, triggered by something as simple as gay people exosting. It’s exhausting. So I do hope that Lemmy doesn’t become reddit. I hope it filters the best of what we had at reddit regardless of where they’re from and who they are, I enjoy discussions and conversation and points of view. I don’t want to argue with someone who believes mixed race couples should be illegal.

    • reric88🧩@beehaw.org
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      2 years ago

      Please!

      I’m all for freedom of speech, but I’m really irked by the lengths people go to just to be offensive.

        • lescousinsdangereux@beehaw.org
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          2 years ago

          I was banned for “promoting the party switch myth” when I pointed out that the Republican Party of the 1860s is not the same as the republican party of 2020.

          • Ataraxia@lemmy.world
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            2 years ago

            It’s like an alternative horrifying universe in that subreddit. It kept popping up in my feed and I eventually blocked it but not after letting it ruin my mood way too many times lol. Made me lose faith in humanity…

    • GiantBasil@beehaw.org
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      2 years ago

      Well, voat is gone (i think), but Saidit is Right there, mostly empty and waiting for them, hopefully they’ll go there and stay there. i actually saw people suggesting saidit to other people last week, so fingers crossed.

    • lol@sh.itjust.works
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      2 years ago

      Its not like leftist subreddits never banned Slight opposed viewpoints from conservatives. Both sides are bad when it comes to censorship

      • abraxas@lemmy.ml
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        2 years ago

        That’s really only balanced truth if we’re comparing rank-and-file conservative subs with the most extreme alt-left subs that even most leftists avoided. If you gotta compare r/conservative to r/latestagecapitalism, that says everything.

        The rest of the time, you got r/conservative banning people for “maybe Jews aren’t part of a conspiracy to kill everyone” comparing with r/liberals banning people for saying that they should be thrown out of a helecopter

      • reric88🧩@beehaw.org
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        2 years ago

        This is true to an extent, however from my experience, leftist subs are much more lenient on discourse if it isn’t blatantly abrasive or offensive or trolling.

      • ursakhiin@beehaw.org
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        2 years ago

        That sub in particular is just notable for banning people for even mild “offenses”. I found a post from it on r/all and asked a comment for a source on a claim they made and got permabanned for it calling me a troll.

      • Ataraxia@lemmy.world
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        2 years ago

        I feel like there’s a difference between being banned for “this country was built by immigrants” or “racism and nazis are bad” and “vaccines are Satan’s poison” and “trans people need to be eradicated”.

      • Skullfurious@lemmy.ml
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        2 years ago

        mUh BoTh SIdEs!!!11one!!

        The difference is you get banned from the conservative subreddits for questioning them about trivial bullshit and from the liberal subreddits for denying people their existence.

      • Stoneykins@beehaw.org
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        2 years ago

        In my experience while the amount of moderating done was comparable, the actual content that got removed was different.

        In left spaces you would often see people with conservative opinions getting banned and deleted… After they started saying slurs or insulting people. Some people would argue that whether or not something is considered a slur or an insult is a difference in political opinion, but those kinds of things are already against the reddit site-wide rules so it’s moot.

        In places like r/conservative, people would get banned for being aggressive and insulting people, but also for ever presenting an opinion that isn’t strictly in line with modern conservatism. The moderators of that subreddit used bans to remove any and all dissent no matter how severe or mild.

  • herzberd@beehaw.org
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    2 years ago

    One would think that a platform killing third party apps and forcing consolidation of users into their app would set some alarms off in the minds of the “we freedom oorah come and take it” party. Unfortunately they don’t even pretend to match the branding on the tin.

    • Spacebar@lemmy.ml
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      2 years ago

      To a conservative, freedom is second or third behind respecting authority and corporations are king.

      There is a reason they love Trump - he’s a wanna be dictator. There’s a reason they cheer tax cuts for business and the wealthy while they get screwed.

    • leavesfromthevine@beehaw.org
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      2 years ago

      Well, no. See, it’s a private corporation doing this. In the pursuit of money. So they can’t be wrong. Jesus said so in the Bible.

    • thefloatingpoint@feddit.de
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      2 years ago

      It’s gonna be this. You will see the most racist and hideous stuff. And when called out „muh free speech“.

      • DeltaRoope@sopuli.xyz
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        2 years ago

        I mean, I kind of appreciate the fact that the mods decided to do this, because they know very well how this’ll turn out. Letting such a rancid community out of leash while many of the wholesome communities are on a break is going to be a shitshow worth remembering, and just the kinda stuff that’s going to drop Reddit stock in the eyes of advertisers.

        With corporate, appealing to morals or ethical conduct is usually pointless. Hitting their potential evaluation though…

        • thefloatingpoint@feddit.de
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          2 years ago

          Exactly. When this shitstorm gatherers enough strength someone will report about it. Since the jailbait debacle we know that Reddit doesn’t give a shit what happens on its site. They care when important sources from the outside talk about it.

  • cornballdefense@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    2 years ago

    What absolutely gooberish behavior lolll. Imagine riding this hard for some huge company who all but said they’d pee on their own users for half a penny.

  • gordon@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    What if, and hear me out on this, you go and start posting a bunch of ai images of trump sucking Putin off. Just a thought.