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What I learned after 12 years on reddit: the admins are Nazi sympathizers, pedo protectors, and propaganda enablers.
Looking at that place now, it's crazy that people are still putting up with the bullshit. Everyone is getting censored/banned, comments removed, threads the admins don't like (especially anti Trump/Elon or pro-Palestine) get locked almost immediately. Reddit is literally bottom of the porta potty enshittified.
I saw a few comments on the Stephen King AMA asking about his waffling support of Trump seemingly evaporate after an hour or so.
Shit's compromised, yo.
When did Stephen King ever support Trump? Or was that the problem with the AMA, that they asked him nonsense questions?
When he thought it was convenient, like the rest of these rich pieces of shit.
No really. I've only ever heard Stephen King be against Trump. Your response doesn't help.
When did Stephen King find it convenient?
See I'm not any closer to an actual answer.
Agree on all accounts. I got perma-banned for making fun of the conceptual average Reddit user. Now I’m here. That website is a hollow shell of what it once was.
As predicted, their stock going public INSTANTLY made the website 10x shittier. Bots, propaganda, karma-farming, tyrant power-tripping mods/admins, misinfo, and algorithmic front page is just too much.
Well, all the better mods left when they shut down the API. It's a self-selected group of shitheads now.
Reddit still has a lot of value for me, and I still see loads of critical comments almost every day tearing down certain topics & figures that you touch on above. If the censoring / banning were really that bad, I doubt I'd be able to read all that on a regular basis across their site.
I think it's probably simpler than that: 1) they're a big social media site out to make money first and foremost, 2) they want to avoid agitating powerful figures of the day, and 3) they see their users moreso as convenient assets than individual voices who might stir up trouble for them. It's pretty much just the corporate model of the day in a late-stage capitalist reality.
My point here is that I'd rather not buy in to and perpetuate false assumptions and false narratives. I don't want to just assume that all their admins are really as bad as you think, when in reality many of them might just be trying to give users a fair shake. Many might in fact be 'resisting.'
I got permbanned for saying Neo-Nazis should be named and shamed. Spez edits comments that are critical of him. There was a massive ban wave a few months ago of anyone posting the names of Elon Musk's DOGE goons (who btw are supposed to be known as public officials) because Musk whined to Spez about it. Mods of r/news locked several recent topics on the atrocities committed by the Israeli government, without explanation and within an hour of being posted. On topics critical of the Trump regime, from what I can gather from replies and even quotes, the [removed] comments are tame, yet they continue with their draconian crackdown on "advocating violence"
And on that subject, I got caught in a 3 day ban for "advocating violence" when I was joking about a mosquito smoking a cigarette and getting cancer. My appeal was denied.
And I haven't even touched on the thousands upon thousands of bots I've seen posting, commenting, getting awarded and boosted, and even running entirely-bot populated subs while admins and powers that be throw up their hands saying "welp nothing we can do" at the same time making it easier for bots to sign up, spread propaganda, and hide their tracks. Why? Because bots are their bread and butter. They drive up engagement. They boost reddits active user count (big number = investors happy). There exists an incentive not to do anything about it.
Reddit is biased, bots are everywhere and their mods and admins are out of control. The platform is circling the shitter, from personal experience.
Edit: I mean don't get me wrong, reddit was a good resource for a great myriad of things from like 2005- ~2023 ish. But now, it's become so permeated with misinformation, disinformation, astroturfing, and LLM slop that it's currently unsalvageable, in my opinion.
Nearly all of this applies to Lemmy too, though not quite as bad.
Incoming speculation.
You know the incentives of the developers. I suspect it's why certain features are lagging. I also suspect it's why Lemmy was made in the first place, in case big tech showed a political preference they didn't like.
A lot of these problems are lessened by being open source and people able to run their own servers, but not completely solved.
Rust is better than Python. But Piefed doesn't have most of these very important issues.
Any anonymous social media is going to have a big chunk of the bot problem, but I trust Piefed to fight it more than Lemmy. And Reddit of course will lean into the bots.
I don't think (or assume) you're wrong across various examples of such, duderino, but you're also spinning it right there in to a laughably-giant web of conspiracy (so to speak) simply to meet the needs of your hurt feelings and self-righteousness.
You and the downvoters are sinking in to the worst aspects of our natural state (tribalism), while completely whiffing on the better aspects of tribalism, which (to me?) is to recognise friends where you can see them, and not assume 'evil' about everyone around you.