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Edit: Oops, it is /r/Tennessee, not /r/ProgressiveHQ

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[–] PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 211 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Tennessean here who tried to organize on my state/city subreddits. Can confirm this kind of partisan censorship is not new.

A while ago I made a innocuous enough post on my city's sub about a "Release the Epstein Files" billboard that went up and was paid for by our local Mobilize chapter. Within an hour it was the most upvoted post of the past month. Within 2, it was removed without reason and I was blocked and banned permantly

[–] RustyShackleford@piefed.social 83 points 1 month ago (5 children)

That’s Reddit, I was banned from a Pokemon Go subreddit for being against Niantic forcibly leaving their sandbox environment on iOS.

[–] logicbomb@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago (11 children)

We need to be careful on Lemmy. Only the fact that the moderators and admins have goodwill are keeping Lemmy from becoming like Reddit. If Lemmy gets big and starts attracting people who want to pay to take over communities, that will stretch the moderator goodwill to the limits.

[–] Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com 53 points 1 month ago (2 children)

The difference being that Lemmy supports multiple communities with the same name.

If an instance is allowing their communities to be sold, they can be defederated.

[–] logicbomb@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

As the number of users goes up, it becomes more difficult to enforce that way. Even if many people switch communities, when new ones search for the community by name, the one with the most users will pop up first. And it becomes more and more difficult to justify defederating an instance over a couple of communities if the instance has a ton of big communities.

[–] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 18 points 1 month ago (4 children)

It makes me think that maybe "communities" wasn't the way to organize, maybe you subscribe to a topic and see all posts for that topic on all instances.
But moderation is good, and defederation is too severe a tool to use for moderation. It feels like there is no good solution.

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[–] BigMacHole@sopuli.xyz 147 points 1 month ago (1 children)

We MUST Protect Jeffrey Epstein!

-Republicans!

[–] Blackfeathr@lemmy.world 74 points 1 month ago (2 children)

We need to stop attacking pedophiles!

  • Ted Cruz
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[–] pinheadednightmare@lemmy.world 97 points 1 month ago (30 children)

This is why Reddit is garbage and anyone that still has an account on there is only fueling the fire. Fuck Reddit and their mods

[–] zd9@lemmy.world 64 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Reddit's glory days were when it was big enough to have consistently interesting stuff, especially in the niche subs, but not so big that bad actors (corporatization, foreign influence, domestic partisan bots, hate groups) could enshitify it. Now it's practically unusable.

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[–] FalschgeldFurkan@lemmy.world 80 points 1 month ago (2 children)

From

The start page of the internet

To:

this tiny little corner on the internet

Reddit sure has come far

[–] Dorkyd68@lemmy.world 28 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

At one point it was a glorious place. Then 5 people became admins and mods of the most popular 100 sub reddits and began controlling the narrative to fit their beliefs. In my opinion reddit has been dead for at least 5 years now

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[–] GaMEChld@lemmy.world 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Front page, I believe was what they called themselves. But yeah, it's been a glorious fall.

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[–] sleepmode@lemmy.world 78 points 1 month ago (2 children)

What a power-tripping little dick energy cunt. God I fucking hate reddit.

[–] Bazell@lemmy.zip 41 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

That is why Lemmy exists. And I hope that even more people will start using it since new harsh Reddit policies have appeared.

[–] luciferofastora@feddit.org 25 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Lemmy has power tripping bastards too. it's just usually more transparent.

[–] thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 1 month ago

And federation means that they usually don't have the power to terminate your account.

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[–] blockheadjt@sh.itjust.works 70 points 1 month ago

A person in Tennessee defending pedophiles and abusing power in that pursuit?

Shocked, shocked I tell you.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 67 points 1 month ago (12 children)

Wow. Just fucking wow.

Does Facebook and X do similar types of censoring when it comes to the Republican agenda?

Or is it somehow easier to install them as mods on Reddit subs, making it appear to be more “grass roots” without blaming the platform itself for censorship and bias?

I guess of fb you have “groups” (as opposed to subs) where you could install similar “mods.”

[–] 87Six@lemmy.zip 21 points 1 month ago

Facebook, Twitter and Reddit all have a history of silencing by shadowbans and most people have no idea. There's a billion different ways to silence you on each of these.

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[–] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 66 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Lmao reddit mods love sucking nazi cock

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[–] 7U5K3N@lemmy.dbzer0.com 58 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I'm not surprised the amount of propaganda here in Tennessee about that race is staggering.

I'm not in that district... But we still have commercials, radio and television along billboards and small signs.

So much spin both sides.

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[–] Sunflier@lemmy.world 56 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Reddit has really gone down the hole and sucks Republican cock hard.

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[–] jazzkoalapaws@ttrpg.network 50 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Fuck reddit, and fuck censorship.

[–] Credibly_Human@lemmy.world 27 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (7 children)

Lets be clear though, reddit is only worse than lemmy because it is centralized by one group of douchebags.

Lemmy has plenty of shitty moderation too, and arguably is worse at dealing with it within any given instance due to the lack of proper mod tools, the way posts that are deleted remove entire comment sections from being accessible, the lack of any appeals system and I'm sure a few other things I don't remember off the top of my head.

Its a people problem, and its a style of organization problem with this style of forum.

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[–] BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 46 points 1 month ago (2 children)

The mod of a fascist sub about a fascist state of a fascist country on a fascist website is behaving like fascist? I’m shocked.

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[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 46 points 1 month ago (2 children)

If I recall a similar thing happened to the San Antonio subreddit. Something like it was taken over during the mod revolt, and the new mods seem to have very specific interests.

[–] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 30 points 1 month ago (2 children)

The /r/canada sub has long been controlled by far right people as well. There's been an effort to seize control of city / state / country subs.

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[–] theuniqueone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 45 points 1 month ago (24 children)

Can't except much better from a reddit mod team.

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[–] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 40 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

They have been playing ads on TV consistently for them. Hers saying she wants to help try to keep health insurance available, not get premiums raised and help the people of Tennessee.

His saying she's a radical that was opposed to ICE agents and trying to bully them by blocking them with her car.

His ads have nothing policy based ever said, because it sounds like none of his policies help the people. I guess he is pro tariffs or something, idk

[–] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 26 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The right never campaign on policy because if they did they wouldn't get any votes.

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[–] Bazell@lemmy.zip 31 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)
[–] Aljernon@lemmy.today 25 points 1 month ago

Obligatory fuck reddit comment

[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 24 points 1 month ago (2 children)

What does progressivehq have to do with the Tennessee subreddit?

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[–] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 23 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Of all people to claim is spam, Steve fucking Hoftstetter‽

[–] LoafedBurrito@lemmy.world 22 points 1 month ago

Typical reddit situation. When someone does something the GOP doesn't like, it's spam or fake news.

[–] Lucky_777@lemmy.world 22 points 1 month ago

That's why Reddit is the shit hole it is.

[–] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 21 points 1 month ago

Abandon Reddit and leave it as a Government of Putin cesspool filled with Russian shills. If the Volunteer Oblast votes for Van Epstein, fuck them too for protecting pedophiles, rapists and felons.

[–] Typotyper@sh.itjust.works 21 points 1 month ago

Guy should do an AMA and then bring this up

[–] Kwyjibo1@lemmy.myserv.one 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)
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[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Man, fuck reddit. If you aren't a conservative anything can get you modded or banned.

[–] scintilla@crust.piefed.social 25 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Its fucking wild seeing people still talking about how biased reddit is against people on the right. Go onto any big subreddit and you'll see their no politics rule means no left wing politics.

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[–] Bakkoda@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago

So stay the fuck off Reddit?

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