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Give an example - you can do that here.
One word: transgender. Any light criticism or joke results in a subreddit and site wide ban.
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I'd stay away from the latter two, like not even read it. I made a terrible life changing mistake by reading too much of these subreddits. It's user generated content, mostly by people who hate their lives, hate society and hate others, aided by the traditional media they link to. By the time I saw that reality is different and so much better than the doom I got on Reddit, it was too late.
People who hate their lives? I’m sorry I don’t know what you’re talking about. You’ll find all sort of people on Reddit, but certainly not mostly people hating their lives, society and others. You must have spent too much time on the worst subreddits. You’re the one hating here. I wonder what your "reality" is like.
[1] Unfortunately, there is no better alternative.
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Lol yeah, I can really tell you're just chock-full of empathy by the way you're conducting yourself in this argument. Are you really unironically saying this or are you just trolling the "woke"? Who would you feel empathy for, it doesn't seem to be the woke left.
> What started as a bastion of independent thought, Reddit has slowly devolved into a den of groupthink, censorship, and corporate greed. This is revisionist romanticism. Reddit is just a collection of forums like the many hundreds of thousands that came before it, and continue to exist alongside it. Reddit is also so incredibly massive that making sweeping statements about its quality or composition is meaningless,…
I agree with you kind of. But it was a loose collection of forums initially and still is if you look at it that way. The Reddit admins forced the idea of communities as a reason to start banning. You can see this over time. Subreddits were not called "communities" until the admins started banning subs. It's classic group dynamics. You can't ban a group that isn't a group. So the site grouped loose collections of peop…
The admins also started actively policing subreddits, and shuffling uncooperative mod teams.
Perhaps Reddit was never a bastion of 'independent thought', but in the beginning (after subreddits came into being) there was an understanding that communities were independent.
But eventually they started getting bad press (e.g. /r/jailbait) and the 'jannies' started refusing to work for free (e.g. blackouts), so they decided to quash anyone causing them grief.
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Hate speech is not free speech. There’s plenty of places to spread hate speech, you don’t have to go on Reddit. You don’t have to publicly blame it on "leftists" and compare it to NK. Your kind of speech isn’t welcome here.
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This isn't true. Banning is _per-subreddit_, done by the respective mod teams. Your behaviour would need to be especially egregious for it to be picked up by the admins.
> Leftists naturally following a very North Korean and censorious approach.
Ah, I see. Makes complete sense.
If you follow no news or politics related subreddits, its a wholesome and friendly place (mostly) like it always was.
The mistake is thinking news and politics make good talking topics on the internet, on massive platforms like that. Headlines are the only thing people read, theres no genuine discussion, just people screaming as loud as they can, hoping their opinion ends up being the loudest.
As someone who was involved with many internet communities long before reddit, it sounds like the author is just experiencing the eternal September[0]. Pretty much since the day I found out about reddit in... 2008-ish?, everyone in the online communities I knew thought it was filled with awful pseudointellectual teenagers and college students, that the upvote/downvote system was horrible and encouraged people to post…
You're looking at it all wrong. Kind of through the lens of an narcissist. Not nearly as many people have had the opportunity to even become "full" intellectuals. The irony here is that while the world burns, the easiest solution is raising that bar for them by challenging them and leading them into better paradigms, through interaction and debate or even arguments. Without your presence amongst the people on that pl…
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They have only banned extreme political ideologies with vaguely violent leanings, and have done so for both sides of the spectrum
I tried searching for "Hunter Biden" on Reddit after reading about him in the news before the election. Nothing returned. Not a single post about this person, like he didn't exist at all. After the election, results started to appear. I'm not even American, just someone who wanted to look at comments about the news. I don't think "both sides" is an accurate statement of what's happening.
To be fair, Reddit's search is completely broken. The only way you can get decent results is using Google...
As someone who was involved with many internet communities long before reddit, it sounds like the author is just experiencing the eternal September[0]. Pretty much since the day I found out about reddit in... 2008-ish?, everyone in the online communities I knew thought it was filled with awful pseudointellectual teenagers and college students, that the upvote/downvote system was horrible and encouraged people to post…
Thank you for introducing this concept of the "Eternal September" - it has a real archetypal power to it, reminds me of Northrop Frye's genre-seasons: comedy with spring, romance with summer, tragedy with autumn, satire with winter.