Edit: Oops, it is /r/Tennessee, not /r/ProgressiveHQ
Typical reddit situation. When someone does something the GOP doesn't like, it's spam or fake news.
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
That’s Reddit, I was banned from a Pokemon Go subreddit for being against Niantic forcibly leaving their sandbox environment on iOS.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Piefed has topics I think (I'm mostly on mobile so not something I use but I remember it being there when I set up my account)
We MUST Protect Jeffrey Epstein!
-Republicans!
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
The San Antonio sub is the only one I’ve been banned from and all I did was make a well educated argument for a massive voter initiative. Fuck those guys.
Can't except much better from a reddit mod team.
Lemmy isnt Better, all the mod rejects from Reddit are mods on Lemmy and are using any tiny speck of power to do what Reddit mods would do
Yeah volunteer mods almost always act like fief lords on any platform.
The type of person that would volunteer is precisely the type of person who shouldn't be a mod, usually.
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.”
X probably does. Facebook seems to be more impartial. Not that it speaks much against Zuck's support for the administration.
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
The right never campaign on policy because if they did they wouldn't get any votes.
That's why Reddit is the shit hole it is.
What does progressivehq have to do with the Tennessee subreddit?
Oops, you are 100% correct, I fixed the title.
Man, fuck reddit. If you aren't a conservative anything can get you modded or banned.
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.
Yup. They whine constantly when they're the ones getting left alone to say whatever horrible racist shit they want.
got to fan that flame as much as you can, the entire US right-wing identity is built around making "the left" suffer.
A person in Tennessee defending pedophiles and abusing power in that pursuit?
Shocked, shocked I tell you.
Time to get in touch with Mr. Hoffstetter and point him and his millions of followers in this direction.
What a power-tripping little dick energy cunt. God I fucking hate reddit.
Reddit sucks? Gosh, next you're going to tell me Twitter and Facebook are bad, too!
On one hand, I think this is why social media should be introduced to governments in an "official" capacity, kinda like how former Presidents and other officials would use twitter as a way to reach the masses about important news or whatever. There should be "official" accounts that are tied to certain positions that would be used to moderate different communities, such as city- or state-wide ones like r/Tennessee.
But then, there's the whole deal of America very quickly spiraling into fascism.
This is where the fediverse could shine. For example, the House of Representatives could have a server, and each member would have a username on that server. Much like how email currently works. It wouldn’t be beholden to the whims of a corporation.
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