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I occasionally look at a few very niche subreddits, but for news, Reddit is complete garbage. Reddit has been kind of dead to me since 2016. They were the fir

I occasionally look at a few very niche subreddits, but for news, Reddit is complete garbage. Reddit has been kind of dead to me since 2016. They were the first big victim of the ongoing anti-free-speech wave that started in 2016.

fartcannon 4y ago
Yeah, and while it can be helpful to get answers to things when google fails (which is nearly always nowadays), there's so much astroturfing and shilling that those answers are often worthless.
webscout 4y ago
https://biztoc.com https://biztoc.com for anything business-related
octonion 4y ago
No one is "anti-free speech", but some companies have decided that overt racism, sexism, anti-Semitism and other forms of bigotry violate what they've decided are reasonable terms of service. If users don't like it, there's always 8chan, Stormfront, Gab, Gettr, Truth Social, Parler.
- tekmate 4y ago
  but looking at it like that doesn't make people feel like they're some kind of freedom fighter (freedom to be bigoted trash)
- nemo44x 4y ago
  This is a great example of gas lighting right here. Dear Octonian, users were banned left and right for suggesting Covid was a lab leak or for making their case for why vaccines were problematic. It isn’t just banning if extreme ideas and race, sex, and religion. They banned the president of the United States. It’s about power and controlling the propaganda messaging apparatus.
  - dr-detroit 4y ago
  - veilrap 4y ago
    The president of the United States should be treated no differently than other users of the service. In this case the president repeatedly broke the rules by posting lies and dangerous misinformation. Even given that, his account was allowed to continue to break the rules for far longer than normal peoples would have been.
    - nemo44x 4y ago
      The parent said it’s only bigotry, the kind you’d find at Stormfront, etc, that gets you banned. So now it’s “misinformation”? Who is the arbiter of that? Which authority gets to judge that?
      - krapp 4y ago
        >Who is the arbiter of that? Which authority gets to judge that? The owner(s) of the platform or service. As per the terms of service you agreed to in exchange for an account on that platform or service.
        monetus 4y ago
        You forgot to mention he was banned for the insurrection. "...due to the risk of further incitement of violence..." Was their reasoning, and I think it probably prevented more violence.
        krapp 4y ago
        I agree. Honestly, since we're talking about Trump's personal account (not even the official @POTUS account) I think he should have been banned much earlier. I'm just pointing out that the slippery slope argument of "who gets to decide what is an isn't disinformation" on a specific platform which always gets brought up in this case has an obvious answer.
- SemanticStrengh 4y ago
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- froh 4y ago
  Yes. Even if the reedits if the world don't talk about the paradox of intolerance they act according to it and they dampen hate speech to enable free speech.
- throw_m239339 4y ago
  > No one is "anti-free speech", but some companies have decided that overt racism, sexism, anti-Semitism and other forms of bigotry violate what they've decided are reasonable terms of service. If users don't like it, there's always 8chan, Stormfront, Gab, Gettr, Truth Social, Parler. There is just the racism reddit moderation agrees with and the racism reddit moderation doesn't agree with, the misogyny reddit moderation agrees with and the misogyny reddit moderation doesn't agree with. So when you're claiming that reddit moderations are reasonable, you're just claiming they agree with who you allow and who you doesn't allow being the target of bigotry. I consider porn a form of misogyny for instance, reddit allows porn, and some very depraved form of porn, so don't claim reddit has reasonable terms of services and fights "bigotry", you just don't care about the former.
  - tekmate 4y ago
    this is a transparent gotcha attempt, op wrote "what they've decided are reasonable terms of service" and you pretend that op wrote about their own defintion of reasonable
    - throw_m239339 4y ago
      > this is a transparent gotcha attempt, op wrote "what they've decided are reasonable terms of service" and you pretend that op wrote about their own defintion of reasonable there is no "transparent gotcha attempt" and it's the op who is making an assumption by using the word "reasonable", it's a qualitative argument the OP is making and it's also called "projection". it's like you're giggling behind your computer, attempting at rooting out imaginary trolls that only exist in your mind.
      - tekmate 4y ago
        op made no value judgement as opposed to you
        throw_m239339 4y ago
        > op made no value judgement as opposed to you Of course they did make a value judgement, it's them qualifying whatever TOS on a bunch of depraved porn ridden websites in the realm of the "reasonable". Reddit made no such statement at first place anyway...
- zionic 4y ago
- yucky 4y ago
  >No one is "anti-free speech" Not only are an alarming number of people against free speech, some of them are very powerful. One is even in charge of Biden's new Ministry of Truth.[1] Also, I remember how 2 years ago the breaking story about the emails found on Hunter Biden's laptop implicating Joe Biden in a Ukrainian money laundering scheme was "completely made up by Russians" and talking about it got you banned from every major social media site. Until it turned out to be legit, which it always was. So would that have been banned due to racism or nazis or transphobia or...some other made up reason to justify banning the discussion of it? [1] https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10760907/Biden-starts-Disinformation-Board-led-Russia-expert-called-Hunters-laptop-Trump-product.html https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10760907/Biden-star...
- jgalt212 4y ago
  What you say sounds reasonable and reasonable people can agree upon as good ground rules. However, it does not work out in practice that way. For example, Ibram X. Kendi, is a pretty racist person (by the MLK content of one's character definition), but I'm unaware of any major social media platforms censoring or banning him.
nemo44x 4y ago
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- Gare 4y ago
  Wasn't Ellen Pao pro-free speech? https://www.cnet.com/culture/former-reddit-ceo-defends-ellen-pao-as-protector-of-free-speech-on-the-site/ https://www.cnet.com/culture/former-reddit-ceo-defends-ellen...
  - zionic 4y ago
    Absolutely not. She earned the nickname “chairman pao” for a reason.
  - nemo44x 4y ago
    Ellen Pao is someone I’d consider a garbage human if it wasn’t for the fact I believe she is a mentally ill sociopath that has little control over her self-serving actions.
cyanydeez 4y ago
You also mean they were victims of social media propaganda and gaming the system /R/the_donald was consistently getting bullshit content to the front page using bots. If you're pro free speech you'll need to answer towards the onslaught of bot based content generation and fake users
- pixl97 4y ago
  The amount of bots on most social media is just staggering. I had a weird one on Reddit the other day, and in thinking back, I rather wish I had saved it than just reporting it. There were a comment under one post from 2 different users that was exactly the same. It was a somewhat well though out comment on the shorter side so it caught my eye. When I looked at both the accounts they had the exact same post history, but this was the only comment on the same thread. The other comments were dups of each other on different threads, and they didn't appear to post on the same posts anywhere else in their history. There was otherwise no other information that would have pointed at them performing any bot like behavior.
- jimmaswell 4y ago
  The amount of bots on most social media is just staggering. I had a weird one on Reddit the other day, and in thinking back, I rather wish I had saved it than just reporting it. There were a comment under one post from 2 different users that was exactly the same. It was a somewhat well though out comment on the shorter side so it caught my eye. When I looked at both the accounts they had the exact same post history, but this was the only comment on the same thread. The other comments were dups of each other on different threads, and they didn't appear to post on the same posts anywhere else in their history. There was otherwise no other information that would have pointed at them performing any bot like behavior.
  - __del__ 4y ago
    oh you
    - sofixa 4y ago
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beamatronic 4y ago
Do you prefer Newsmax, OANN, or Fox News?
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jpeter 4y ago
And reddit is still 100x better than old school forums because it's way easier to find the thing you search for
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jmull 4y ago
I don't understand this... Reddit has been very heavily moderated since I've used it (I don't remember dates, but well before 2016). mods can pretty much censor whatever they want for whatever reason they want.
nunez 4y ago
the small, niche, subs still have quality discussion for the most part, but I agree with you on the whole. i've been slowly scaling back my Reddit consumption this year because of it.

fartcannon 4y ago

Yeah, and while it can be helpful to get answers to things when google fails (which is nearly always nowadays), there's so much astroturfing and shilling that those answers are often worthless.

webscout 4y ago

https://biztoc.com https://biztoc.com for anything business-related

octonion 4y ago

No one is "anti-free speech", but some companies have decided that overt racism, sexism, anti-Semitism and other forms of bigotry violate what they've decided are reasonable terms of service. If users don't like it, there's always 8chan, Stormfront, Gab, Gettr, Truth Social, Parler.

tekmate 4y ago
but looking at it like that doesn't make people feel like they're some kind of freedom fighter (freedom to be bigoted trash)
nemo44x 4y ago
This is a great example of gas lighting right here. Dear Octonian, users were banned left and right for suggesting Covid was a lab leak or for making their case for why vaccines were problematic. It isn’t just banning if extreme ideas and race, sex, and religion. They banned the president of the United States. It’s about power and controlling the propaganda messaging apparatus.
- dr-detroit 4y ago
- veilrap 4y ago
  The president of the United States should be treated no differently than other users of the service. In this case the president repeatedly broke the rules by posting lies and dangerous misinformation. Even given that, his account was allowed to continue to break the rules for far longer than normal peoples would have been.
  - nemo44x 4y ago
    The parent said it’s only bigotry, the kind you’d find at Stormfront, etc, that gets you banned. So now it’s “misinformation”? Who is the arbiter of that? Which authority gets to judge that?
    - krapp 4y ago
      >Who is the arbiter of that? Which authority gets to judge that? The owner(s) of the platform or service. As per the terms of service you agreed to in exchange for an account on that platform or service.
      - monetus 4y ago
        You forgot to mention he was banned for the insurrection. "...due to the risk of further incitement of violence..." Was their reasoning, and I think it probably prevented more violence.
        krapp 4y ago
        I agree. Honestly, since we're talking about Trump's personal account (not even the official @POTUS account) I think he should have been banned much earlier. I'm just pointing out that the slippery slope argument of "who gets to decide what is an isn't disinformation" on a specific platform which always gets brought up in this case has an obvious answer.
SemanticStrengh 4y ago
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froh 4y ago
Yes. Even if the reedits if the world don't talk about the paradox of intolerance they act according to it and they dampen hate speech to enable free speech.
throw_m239339 4y ago
> No one is "anti-free speech", but some companies have decided that overt racism, sexism, anti-Semitism and other forms of bigotry violate what they've decided are reasonable terms of service. If users don't like it, there's always 8chan, Stormfront, Gab, Gettr, Truth Social, Parler. There is just the racism reddit moderation agrees with and the racism reddit moderation doesn't agree with, the misogyny reddit moderation agrees with and the misogyny reddit moderation doesn't agree with. So when you're claiming that reddit moderations are reasonable, you're just claiming they agree with who you allow and who you doesn't allow being the target of bigotry. I consider porn a form of misogyny for instance, reddit allows porn, and some very depraved form of porn, so don't claim reddit has reasonable terms of services and fights "bigotry", you just don't care about the former.
- tekmate 4y ago
  this is a transparent gotcha attempt, op wrote "what they've decided are reasonable terms of service" and you pretend that op wrote about their own defintion of reasonable
  - throw_m239339 4y ago
    > this is a transparent gotcha attempt, op wrote "what they've decided are reasonable terms of service" and you pretend that op wrote about their own defintion of reasonable there is no "transparent gotcha attempt" and it's the op who is making an assumption by using the word "reasonable", it's a qualitative argument the OP is making and it's also called "projection". it's like you're giggling behind your computer, attempting at rooting out imaginary trolls that only exist in your mind.
    - tekmate 4y ago
      op made no value judgement as opposed to you
      - throw_m239339 4y ago
        > op made no value judgement as opposed to you Of course they did make a value judgement, it's them qualifying whatever TOS on a bunch of depraved porn ridden websites in the realm of the "reasonable". Reddit made no such statement at first place anyway...
zionic 4y ago
yucky 4y ago
>No one is "anti-free speech" Not only are an alarming number of people against free speech, some of them are very powerful. One is even in charge of Biden's new Ministry of Truth.[1] Also, I remember how 2 years ago the breaking story about the emails found on Hunter Biden's laptop implicating Joe Biden in a Ukrainian money laundering scheme was "completely made up by Russians" and talking about it got you banned from every major social media site. Until it turned out to be legit, which it always was. So would that have been banned due to racism or nazis or transphobia or...some other made up reason to justify banning the discussion of it? [1] https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10760907/Biden-starts-Disinformation-Board-led-Russia-expert-called-Hunters-laptop-Trump-product.html https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10760907/Biden-star...
jgalt212 4y ago
What you say sounds reasonable and reasonable people can agree upon as good ground rules. However, it does not work out in practice that way. For example, Ibram X. Kendi, is a pretty racist person (by the MLK content of one's character definition), but I'm unaware of any major social media platforms censoring or banning him.

nemo44x 4y ago

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Gare 4y ago
Wasn't Ellen Pao pro-free speech? https://www.cnet.com/culture/former-reddit-ceo-defends-ellen-pao-as-protector-of-free-speech-on-the-site/ https://www.cnet.com/culture/former-reddit-ceo-defends-ellen...
- zionic 4y ago
  Absolutely not. She earned the nickname “chairman pao” for a reason.
- nemo44x 4y ago
  Ellen Pao is someone I’d consider a garbage human if it wasn’t for the fact I believe she is a mentally ill sociopath that has little control over her self-serving actions.

cyanydeez 4y ago

You also mean they were victims of social media propaganda and gaming the system /R/the_donald was consistently getting bullshit content to the front page using bots. If you're pro free speech you'll need to answer towards the onslaught of bot based content generation and fake users

pixl97 4y ago
The amount of bots on most social media is just staggering. I had a weird one on Reddit the other day, and in thinking back, I rather wish I had saved it than just reporting it. There were a comment under one post from 2 different users that was exactly the same. It was a somewhat well though out comment on the shorter side so it caught my eye. When I looked at both the accounts they had the exact same post history, but this was the only comment on the same thread. The other comments were dups of each other on different threads, and they didn't appear to post on the same posts anywhere else in their history. There was otherwise no other information that would have pointed at them performing any bot like behavior.
jimmaswell 4y ago
The amount of bots on most social media is just staggering. I had a weird one on Reddit the other day, and in thinking back, I rather wish I had saved it than just reporting it. There were a comment under one post from 2 different users that was exactly the same. It was a somewhat well though out comment on the shorter side so it caught my eye. When I looked at both the accounts they had the exact same post history, but this was the only comment on the same thread. The other comments were dups of each other on different threads, and they didn't appear to post on the same posts anywhere else in their history. There was otherwise no other information that would have pointed at them performing any bot like behavior.
- __del__ 4y ago
  oh you
  - sofixa 4y ago

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beamatronic 4y ago

Do you prefer Newsmax, OANN, or Fox News?

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jpeter 4y ago

And reddit is still 100x better than old school forums because it's way easier to find the thing you search for

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jmull 4y ago

I don't understand this... Reddit has been very heavily moderated since I've used it (I don't remember dates, but well before 2016). mods can pretty much censor whatever they want for whatever reason they want.

nunez 4y ago

the small, niche, subs still have quality discussion for the most part, but I agree with you on the whole. i've been slowly scaling back my Reddit consumption this year because of it.