Edit: Oops, it is /r/Tennessee, not /r/ProgressiveHQ
And what about /c/Tennessee on here?
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I've checked the Tennessee subreddit and it doesn't seem very active. The first post is 17h old and about the special election. The news article that was posted, is not positive for the republican party. The reddit comments are overwhelmingly against Van Epps. The post itself was posted by a mod. https://old.reddit.com/r/Tennessee/comments/1pajj2w/tennessee_congressional_race_becomes_unlikely/
This doesn't look like a rightwing echo chamber to me. Maybe the outsider that was calling for action, was removed because they take their rule about removing agitators seriously. Imo there may still be a problem of too strict modding, because of how inactive the subreddit looks.
Obligatory fuck reddit comment
No outside political agitators (This is a broad one, but if we look at your post history and all you do is spam geographical subs stirring the political cauldron we will remove your post and ban you from this sub)
The lesson on Reddit (if you still use that platform) is to hide your history. I'm guessing they used this rule for the ban. Bans from subs should exclusively be for content posted on that sub. If something is bad enough to warrant a sitewide ban, that is another matter.
Anyhow, there are is another post about the election: https://old.reddit.com/r/Tennessee/comments/1p36q6s/millions_pour_into_tennessee_special_election/
This raises the question: Is there somebody else on that sub posting about the special election? There should be enough Tennesseans that at least one of them should post there.
Blue dots in a sea of red. I'm in a similar political geography and you see a similar pattern.
I'm sure there's been quite a few posts, but they just don't last.
Reddit is sort of dead.
You are guessing, but they already said why, so we have no need to guess.
Lmao reddit mods love sucking nazi cock
They got rid of all of us mods who didn't bow and kiss the ring and the star.
Now all that's left is the worst of the mods.
What is the charge? Eating a meal? A succulent ~~Chinese~~ Thai meal?
We know how they source and process their chicken...
Fuck reddit, and fuck censorship.
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.
reddit is only worse than lemmy because it is centralized by one group of douchebags
That's a really big distinguishing factor though. When a group gets "too big to fail," it becomes a problem by giving said group too much control. Look at the genocide apologist mods on /r/worldnews .
The de-centralization / fragmentation of Lemmy is an important check against bad moderation.
You absolutely bring up good points yes, but at the same time, I don't think its a check, so much as a mild mitigation. Even on the lemmy verse there are still mega subs that take on the most activity and gain similar types of "too big to fail" critical user bases.
The core problem, is that when a group gains disproportionate control over what users can see, they can push their views/twist arms, and that ultimately isn't solved here.
and its a style of organization problem with this style of forum.
Which lemmy mitigates by being decentralized.
I agree. Lemmy has a ton of awful moderators that abuse their power just to support "their" viewpoint.
Lemmy is better though because it at least has the potential for people to have better moderation, as well as a modlog that keeps mods somewhat accountable and let's people see what is being censored.
as well as a modlog that keeps mods somewhat accountable and let’s people see what is being censored.
I'm not sure if this is still true, but you can get around that though if you ban the person before removing the comment. Also, some communities have a delay on showing what's been removed.
I agree. Lemmy has a ton of awful moderators that abuse their power just to support “their” viewpoint.
Indeed. Famously the elephant in the room of the ml instance where they're gone so far off the deep end on a lot of topics that they end up in essence supporting extremist conservative views/human rights abuses and worse. This is either with direct support with the weird straight up dictatorship praises many sing, being so toxic and hard to talk to that they push people away (who I hope know they certainly aren't the average left leaning person) or the awful thing many do where they feel any incremental positive change is bad, and the only good change is a magic overnight revolution and shift to 100% exactly their view of how society should work, that they'll also never spell out.
Lemmy is better though because it at least has the potential for people to have better moderation
In some ways yes, in some ways the opposite (as mentioned with the lack of tools).
Regarding the modlog, maybe I am missing something, but when things are deleted here, its actually a little bit worse than reddit sometimes in that you won't be able to immediately see the content that was deleted of yours, and then for mod logs, I believe (As I am not 100% sure) that comment removals disappear when the user who made the comment is banned as well, so its kinda false transparency.
From
The start page of the internet
To:
this tiny little corner on the internet
Reddit sure has come far
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
Front page, I believe was what they called themselves. But yeah, it's been a glorious fall.
Taking the Facebook and Twitter route
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.
I dunno why, can't really put my finger on it, but I have this slight hunch that it might be related to fascism in some way.
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Basically all the local subreddits have right-wing mods and a cadre of incels that try to drive the conversation constantly towards minorities who commit crimes
Fucking wow man. Fuck reddit. I got perma banned for arguing with a FAR left mod 3ish years ago. Im liberal as fuck. Believe in rights for everyone, hate ice, despise Trump, believe in welfare, hate racist cunts etc, etc, etc. Politicians arent celebrities to be pit on a pedestal. They are public servants elected to serve.... the effing public. What i don't believe in is BLINDLY supporting someone just because they are affiliated with my party. And thats ultimately why I was banned, I argued with a mod that blindly supported democrats no matter what they did. In the end I took it on the chin and never looked back because fuck that
See, funny thing is, my two sub bans and my temp bans were because i pointed out that voting against fascism was still a decent way to spend a tuesday.
I think we live in unprecedented times and we need to correct a clear abuse of power before we have the luxury to return to how we would want to do things.
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Reddit has really gone down the hole and sucks Republican cock hard.
To which I disagree.
With all the cases on reddit where it seems that outcome serves republicans - there is a counter-argument of how most major subs are democrat-sided subs. Maybe mods are republicans, but still user base is majority of democrats. r/pics, r/adviceanimals, r/therewasanattempt, r/clevercomebacks, r/facepalm - these were never primarily about politics. And now they are and these are only democrat-sided.
Or, maybe, it is astroturfing and political bots swarm these subs. Who knows at this point?
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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.
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