along with the strong censoring that has occurred on reddit throughout the years, they have now removed r/all from the app and while using a desktop/laptop browser. instead of being able to stumble upon new subreddits you never knew existed, it wants to curate what you’re allowed to see
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For me it was the bots, rage-bait and doxing. I hope Lemmy stays niche, cuz’ in my experience - popularity = trash community.
Celebrity worship(or worship in general) is always my stopping point. 9/10 posts on reddit now are meme with, or posts about some actor.
rage baiting on here is exploding. world news and news community are like 75% rage bait with editorialized headline nonsense the past month. and it gets tons of commentary, and if you point out the editorializing and the lies you get downvoted or reported by the delsuional nutbags.
shit’s wild.
I was banned from News, and blocking it was the best thing that’s happened to Lemmy. My All feed went from 7/38 Trump posts to 1 out 38 Trump posts.
The high frequency of simple two sentence comments like, “I bet MAGA is sad right now. XD. Those subhuman conerva-stupids are getting what they deserve,” suggests that the perceived popularity might not be real.
I think this platform would become more popular if political subreddits weren’t automatically included in the All feed. There aren’t enough people to dilute the propoganda. It gives a bad first impression.
You get downvoted and reported because of your extreme views on women and your petulant whining about how your “facts” about Israel make people think you’re a Zionist.
extreme views on women
So he has a hot take that men and women might be biologically different, or what?
No, he spews ideas like women are only interested in designer bags and using men.
Hasbara ass account
Reddit is not dying fast enough
Didn’t they do the opposite of this before? Like, there were default subs, then that went away and replaced with All, right?
Initially there were no subs, then the main page got hidden behind /r/all and people were allowed to create their own subs, and the frontpage got replaced with whatever you subbed to.
Those were the good times, when the site was small enough that people helped a kid out to do his homework.
Yeah atheism was default for a long time i think?
IMO /all was overrated in the first place. It was overwhelmed with memes, more niche meme content, and whatever the shallow hivemind decided to upvote like fake TIFU or relationahi_advice posts.
Best way to find good r/ back in the day was via mentions in subs you already followed.
Mods here removed a quote from tropic thunder to describe Reddit.
Unfortunately the types of people that moderate community forms are overly sensitive losers and the word for slow in French.
This was a problem on reddit and is a problem here. The cancer that started there will recur as long as we have unaccountable unelected basement dwellers that want to play hall monitor online and can’t get laid.
Fuck reddit. Fuck powertripping mods. Fuck hall monitor nerds that put their thumb on the scales of open dialogue on forums.
Unfortunately the types of people that moderate community forms are overly sensitive losers and the word for slow in French.
Forum moderation corroded the human soul. It’s a thankless job that mostly involves policing the most perverse, belligerent, and degenerate people.
I’ve been on the internet a long time, without fail, moderation on forums and chat rooms turns into a twisted version of the Stanford prison experiment every single time.
The people that push for censorship and language policing enable this kind of behavior and make these moderators feel like they’re doing the right thing when they are acting like total authoritarians. I will call these idiots out every single time. Fuck them
The people that push for censorship and language policing enable this kind of behavior
One side of the coin.
The other is the guy that keeps making new accounts just to post FBI Crime Statistics, Stonetoss memes, and CSAM.
I will call these idiots out every single time.
Consider yourself called out
Oh, you’re mad that you can’t use a slur? That’s like, the powertripping? People leave reddit because of chuds like you hombre.
Language is an evolving, organic tool, and attempting to police it usually says more about the person doing the policing than the person speaking. When we start labeling certain verbiage as “correct” or “incorrect,” we aren’t actually protecting the language; we are just enforcing a personal or social preference.
Communication is about the transmission of ideas. If the message was received, the language did its job. Whether it was delivered with a academic precision or through “crass” slang is irrelevant to its functional success. Demanding that everyone adhere to a specific aesthetic or moral standard of speech is just a subtle way of trying to control how others express their reality. If you make certain words the enemy, you’re essentially arguing for a narrow, sterilized version of expression that leaves no room for the raw or the unconventional. It’s better to engage with the actual argument being made rather than retreating into the safety of tone policing.
It’s not a slur. You are overly sensitive. You are the problem
Bigoted man believes others are sensitive because he can’t decide what is and is not a slur for everyone else. Beautiful.
Did you just assume my gender identity?
Deduced it. Don’t be sensitive.
I wish Tumblr was still around so you could go back to it
Tumblr and Vine need to come back, so all the imbeciles can fuck back off to the containment sites.
I get that it’s a quote, one that many people find funny, but it is also rooted in ableism and hasn’t exactly aged super well. It’s not like your comment was removed for “wrongthink,” it was removed for violating a social norm that has evolved since that movie came out. Just my two cents. 🤷♀️
“Ableism” I stopped reading here. I’m so tired of you armchair activists and your bullshit. Get a job. If someone says something you don’t like, get over it!
Do you know what “ableism” means? Like, have you ever stopped to think about it? Can you define it?
Ableism is when the government won’t build a ramp for a people with a wheelchair, so they can access the town hall.
Or when they do build a ramp, but it’s too steep to get up to (pardon the reddit - I couldn’t find an alternative)
Calling people who act retarded, retarded, isn’t ableism.
Yeah it was made up by a bunch of childless 30 something-year-old women that needed something to complain about
So no.
Censoring the free exchange of ideas and information because someone may be offended by a word on the screen is the dumbest thing I have ever heard in my life.
You’re going to lose this every time. People have had enough of this pearl clutching Nanny State bullshit. Nobody wants to associate with people who do this or who advocate for this idiocy.
The irony of this is that OPs name is literally “bong hits for Jesus.” Are you familiar with that story?
If you want to be an edgelord, be one and stop whining about people’s reactions to you.
Isn’t that exactly what you’re looking for when using terms like that? Outrage?
Please go back to the hugzone discord or safe space you came from. Folks like you are why we can’t have nice things and why any kind of progressivism gets killed in the crib. You make dialogue impossible by censoring and sterilize all public spaces by banning humor. Nobody wants to associate with a bunch of losers that police language and “tone” on an internet forum.
With all due respect, don’t comment if you have nothing to say. There are plenty of places to talk in circles with your leftist gobbledygook bullshit elsewhere.
Full disclosure I’m disabled or whatever so please take that into consideration when you consult your progressive victim rubric to determine where my thought should be placed on the totem pole
Folks like you are why we can’t have nice things and why any kind of progressivism gets killed in the crib.
You’re arguing to be able to use the word “retard”. Let’s be for fucking real here.
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Spoken like a true MAGA supporter.
I worked and voted for Bernie twice. Nice try. You’re the problem and exactly why this word is used
Plenty of Bernie bros went MAGA
You’re a child. Go back to Reddit please
So clever, dude. I’m shaking in my boots at your colorful and intelligent commentary. I’m so amazed.
“I’m not a MAGAt, I’ll have you knooooow I’m a proud liberal ;)” Cringe.
Not an argument. Misrepresent my position that you don’t know to begin with and is in fact the opposite. Nice. Sick. Read about the straw man fallacy, you argue like a child
You are having a freakout in this thread dude, take a break. Won’t respond to anything else from this cringelord.
whose social norm?
this is the issue. you assume your social norms are shared by everyone. they aren’t. and then mods and such impose their social norms on everyone else rather than let the users decide what content they want to see.
i watched it happen countless times. community is pretty chill, but then a mod comes in and starts banning people who have been here for months/years over word choices or ‘tone’ or other petty nonsense because they want the community to only reflect their own personal norms and beliefs.
in real life you can go from town to town and the details of the norms and language change, that’s what’s normal. in some towns saying some words in heinous, in others, nobody cares.
it also doesn’t take into account the concept of context, which again, doesn’t exist for the sensitivity police who think all words mean the same things at all times and therefore must be banned from existence. let alone experiences, beliefs, or all the other things that actually make a community genuine diverse and interesting. the sensitivity police want to stamp out genuine diversity and create some weird linguistic police state nonsense where only certain things are permitted.
let alone experiences, beliefs, or all the other things that actually make a community genuine diverse and interesting.
Does one really have to use the word “retard” to make a community diverse and interesting though?
It was a social norm to call black people the N word for generations… Social norms do not define good or bad behavior. They define what people find acceptable. Socially, the word you wish to be acceptable has made more and more people uncomfortable and has in fact become less and less socially acceptable to use casually. Many words you used to use are weird now. Growing up we used to say “frick” unironically. These days it would be a little strange to toss that in as a filler word. It’s the same concept except for the fact that the word has not become a slur, it’s just been outdated in its use.
Language evolves and words become acceptable and others become unacceptable. It’s the way it goes and is not a sign of sensitivity, instead a positive sign of progression of language. You are fighting against the nature of how language develops.
Language changes, it doesn’t ‘progress’. Lots of new racist and discriminatory terms now exist that didn’t years ago, many of which are totally acceptable because they are new and not ‘weird’.
But keep insisting that your language use is the only ‘correct’ one, I guess? It must make you feel big since you ‘know’ the ‘right’ language use. You should go around and ‘educate’ everyone you see on the street about it. See how well that goes over.
Using ageist terminology in quoting a dated joke is more than just “tone.” Everyone should feel welcome on Lemmy, including people with intellectual disability. That type of language marginalizes such people and has moved into being unacceptable. This isn’t stamping out diversity, it’s protecting it.
The logic here is pretty clear, it isn’t just someone randomly playing weird linguistic police. I totally get where you’re coming from, and I agree with you in principle, but I also feel like this particular case is just not the hill to die on.
Tell me more you live in a white college-educated liberal/leftie bubble, and think anyone who doesn’t share your viewpoints is ‘less than’ you.
It’s not about logic. It’s about you waking up the fact you don’t get to dictate how other people live their lives or how they speak, and your need to do that is nothing more than a power-tripping projection. And that you ‘welcoming to everyone’ necessary excludes people and is inherently contradictory based on arbitrary perceptions of language use, articulated by you, how views yourself as the dominant social group, and your instance that you ‘speak on behalf’ of those who you view as inherently less than you, that you must ‘protect’. I also notice these types of folks are self-appointed protectors. I doubt anyone asked you personally to go on the internet and start protecting them from certain words there.
That’s why this type of identity political nonsense pisses most people off, because it’s inherently contradictory on it’s own terms. And it’s typically welded by wannabe bullies who want to browbeat and power trip rather than genuinely create diverse communities and interesting communities. The inherent contradiction is why they use this ‘protect people’ justification all the time.
Further, I see words and things I disagree with all the time. But it’s not my place to ban or dictate to others how to speak or or force my views on them. I simple choose not to interact with them, but I am not so cowardly to think I can silence away their existence because it find it upsetting or find it offensive. Just like in real life, I don’t go up to people having a conversation that I find offensive and try to ‘educate’ them about how wrong they are, or tell someone off for wearing clothing I find offputting. Because I respect other people’s agency and freedom far more than respect my internal feelings of disgust and dislike.
Also why I don’t go into a Mosque and start trying to convert people there to Christianity… because I respect that they are different than me, and have practices and beliefs that are different than mine and oftentimes contradict mine. And they have such as might right to practice and speak as I do.
But if they start trying to covert me, yeah I’ll tell them to properly fuck off. Just like they should tell me to fuck off if I try to covert them. And that is what creates diversity and inclusion… respect for differences and the choice to participate.
It’s not about logic. It’s about you waking up the fact you don’t get to dictate how other people live their lives or how they speak, and your need to do that is nothing more than a power-tripping projection.
Oh dude, I grew up on 4chan. I don’t personally give a single crap how you talk, I’m just saying why it is how it is. I have no desire to control your speech whatsoever.
That’s why this type of identity political nonsense pisses most people off
Pretty sure most people understand the reasoning and move on with their lives.
Anyway, I’m gonna leave you with this and dip now.
i love this. every time your ‘camp’ is confronted you just ‘dip’ and drop some link to Popper like you’re dropping the mic and you’re some genius.
You don’t even understand Popper if you are using him here. Internet posts aren’t political speech. Popper’s argument is about political speech, not random people in in a coffee shop talking. But your camp can’t draw these distinctions between personal and political behaviors, because that’s too ‘difficult’ for you to understand. You also can’t understand context, or jokes, or the difference between your own feelings and the existence of the external world, half the time.
It’s also why you lose elections and the left is a joke politically. Because you can’t fight, you just run and hide, and wonder why the right beats the piss out of you in terms of social popularity and traction. Because they do fight. They don’t hide beside wikipedia links, and they try to reach people where they are rather than lecturing them from on high about how stupid and ignorant they are.
Would be nice to meet a leftist who actually stood for something other than being a pedantic hall monitor on the internet. But I notice when those leftists show up, all the other leftists just call them names because the idea of having a backbone and respecting other people’s differences, including linguistic differences, is SCARY to them. Lemmy leftists are always such total cowards.
I hope your day gets better.
Further, I see words and things I disagree with all the time. But it’s not my place to ban or dictate to others how to speak or or force my views on them.
Are you not doing this exact thing right now?
So, where the hell do you want to draw the lines, and why does that location not make you a product of exactly what you’re accusing everyone else of?
I only draw lines for myself. I am not arrogant to claim to speak for anyone else.
I also draw the lines based on context of the existing community, god forbid!
If you don’t like certain words, cool, don’t interact go go to places that allow them. But the issue is your need to impose your personal beliefs on others who don’t share them, and don’t want to share them.
Should I go into a black barber shop and start informing the community there how racist/ableist/sexist they all are based on their language use? Or would that just make me the racist?
From where I stand, that would make me the racist POS if I did that. Trying to impose my bullshit on other people who never asked for it, who don’t want it, and think it’s total bullshit. Maybe I should go into the barber shop and ‘educate’ all those ‘ignorant’ black men about bell hooks!!! Clearly that will ‘fix’ their ignorance!!
I only draw lines for myself.
Yet here you are telling people where they’re not allowed to draw lines for others.
I am not arrogant to claim to speak for anyone else.
this is the issue. you assume your social norms are shared by everyone. they aren’t. and then mods and such impose their social norms on everyone else rather than let the users decide what content they want to see.
That’s you, speaking for everyone else.
Trying to impose my bullshit on other people who never asked for it,
nobody asked for what you’re saying now.
You’re literally trying to define the social norm while telling eveyone else they should not get to pick the social norm.
Advocating for eveyrone to refuse to censor anything is same trap as advocating for people to censor things.
And there will always be lines. Gonna block outright harassment? Gonna block kiddie pics, Gonna block a bunch of people organizing how to cut the power to a town, kill people, get away with murder?
every response you made here was ‘no but u’
This is why decent folk don’t respect your viewpoint. Because you can’t defend it without calling peoples names and resorting to toddler level replies, and misconstruing everything someone else says deliberately.
I am not defining anything for anyone else. I am speaking for myself. Your entire blindness to this fact is so telling. You literally can’t distinguish between a personal view and a social view, because for you there is no distinction. Hence you feel you personal feelings are the business of society, and society has to be built to protect your personal feelings.
I notice a lot of people like you also can’t seem to distinguish between the external world and your own internal thoughts, and seem to think that isn’t a personal problem of your own, but a problem the ‘society’ is suppose to solve for you. Other people’s realities dont’ exist for you, you want to erase them and create a friction-less world that only ever reflects your own image, and nobody who upsets you is allowed to exist in it.
This is why decent folk don’t respect your viewpoint. Because you can’t defend it without calling peoples names and resorting to toddler level replies, and misconstruing everything someone else says deliberately.
Are we reading the same thing? Are you ok? Have you hit your head?
Nothing good left there.
Time to learn more about fediverse and become an active poster to support the platform.
Ever since the election the site has steadily become more and more… off. Something changed, I wonder what it was?
Reddit wants to curate content you’re allowed to see that is suitable to their advertising clients. Ad money and where it is spent controls the general viability of what content gets seen by a large number of people.
Publishing at the extremes both left and right is generally built off private funding. Brands only want their logos on the safe cookie cutter spaces of the internet. Same with television.
Ad money is easily the largest form of censorship we regularly encounter.
Reddit was over as soon as conde nast got involved
For me, the sickness started with forced introduction of the new interface. It was so horrible I just switched to old in the settings.
Imagine what happened? Reddit unchecked that setting for me every fucking month on purpose. Hole fuck this is disrespectful. Also, they replaced direct messages with chat that spams neverending crypto scams at me.
And on top of that majority of big subs are moderated by the same people with iron grip on “truth”
Year of Desktop Lemmy
It hasn’t been for at least 10 years. the_donald was some how memoryholed. The chuds broke r/all 10 years ago.
Nobody remembers. Maybe anybody who knows has already washed themselves of the reddit mess a long time ago. All that’s left are the chuds acting in bad faith who lie their ass off to craft their alt-reality.
Yeah it’s not just chuds. It’s a bunch of leftist losers that love censorship and dickride Stalin and Mao. Your local barista that’s powerless everywhere but on reddit where they can censor every viewpoint that doesn’t 100% align with their crazy ass worldview
Intention driven media consumption is getting killed everywhere.
YouTube hides your subscriptions from you, the public broadcasting institutions from my country recently netflixified the experience (they try to tell you what you want to watch).
It’s so stupid.
I had to revive RSS for myself to overcome this. My feed, my decisions!
YouTube hides your subscriptions from you
How do you mean?
Perhaps they’re referring to how YT will overwhelm the Home feed with tons of suggested crap and a few videos from your subscribed channels, instead of the other way around. You can click over to a subscription-only feed, but it’s not the default.
It will be a slow and painful death. I abandoned Reddit last year because enshittification. However, some great stuff from there lands here in Lemmy.and my search engine seems to like Reddit info. Not going back, but sentimental thoughts exist.
This is the straw that killed the cammels back for me. 15 year old account deleted.
