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Why not mastodon? why not reddit? All of these social medias have been crafted to protect their users from the deplorables. I had the r/ontario mod publicly ad

Why not mastodon? why not reddit? All of these social medias have been crafted to protect their users from the deplorables. I had the r/ontario mod publicly admit they ban ALL canadian conservatives because they are ALL homophobic. Mastodon has a public blog post where they admit the same problem. as long as you ban opposing viewpoints you can never win. Why is it each time the cognitive dissonance peaks in an echo chamber they simply seek a new social media safe space? Toronto Maple Leafs are on a 10 game winning streak after they banned their opponents from the building.

hooverd 2y ago
Reddit has plenty of conservatives! Personally, I just don't want to hang out on /pol/, or have the top comments being slurs and antisemitism. A lot of the "own the libs" energy can't exist without an enemy to be polarized against.
- incomingpain 2y ago
  Reddit banned most conservatives, this was studied by multiple universities. Reddit started a new project something like "reintegration of banned individuals to maintain community health." Reddit has fallen out of the top 15 social media platforms, now ranking around 20th and soon to fall behind LinkedIn. Most of reddit are bots creating the illusion of activity. Banning conservatives goes well beyond politics. All community sizes shrink. With fewer opposing viewpoints, left-leaning users dominate discussions, reinforcing a one-sided narrative. But you might say, no how could that be?Ive been banned from a dozen subreddits for violating rules that dont even show up in the rule list. You just so happen to hit a subject which is secretly against the rules. I asked the mods how I would know not to break that rule, talking about what they claim is a conspiracy theory. But they dont even list in the rules because they dont want to give it any additional coverage. But i dont even get a warning? Digg died because of their move against free speech. Every rolled over to reddit because they claim to be free speech but really never was, it was just micro censorship. outsourced antifree speech. Reddit and digg will be hosted on the same servers in thefuture.
  - hooverd 2y ago
    Reddit moderation isn't unified. You could just as easily get banned from arr slash conservative. What was the thing that "the mods" claimed was a conspiracy theory?

hooverd 2y ago

Reddit has plenty of conservatives! Personally, I just don't want to hang out on /pol/, or have the top comments being slurs and antisemitism. A lot of the "own the libs" energy can't exist without an enemy to be polarized against.

incomingpain 2y ago
Reddit banned most conservatives, this was studied by multiple universities. Reddit started a new project something like "reintegration of banned individuals to maintain community health." Reddit has fallen out of the top 15 social media platforms, now ranking around 20th and soon to fall behind LinkedIn. Most of reddit are bots creating the illusion of activity. Banning conservatives goes well beyond politics. All community sizes shrink. With fewer opposing viewpoints, left-leaning users dominate discussions, reinforcing a one-sided narrative. But you might say, no how could that be?Ive been banned from a dozen subreddits for violating rules that dont even show up in the rule list. You just so happen to hit a subject which is secretly against the rules. I asked the mods how I would know not to break that rule, talking about what they claim is a conspiracy theory. But they dont even list in the rules because they dont want to give it any additional coverage. But i dont even get a warning? Digg died because of their move against free speech. Every rolled over to reddit because they claim to be free speech but really never was, it was just micro censorship. outsourced antifree speech. Reddit and digg will be hosted on the same servers in thefuture.
- hooverd 2y ago
  Reddit moderation isn't unified. You could just as easily get banned from arr slash conservative. What was the thing that "the mods" claimed was a conspiracy theory?