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Summary

Reddit’s r/medicine moderators deleted a thread where doctors and users harshly criticized murdered UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.

Comments, including satirical rejections of insurance claims for gunshot wounds, targeted UHC’s reputation for denying care to boost profits.

Despite the removal, similar discussions continue, with medical professionals condemning UHC’s business practices under Thompson’s leadership, which a Senate report recently criticized for denying post-acute care.

Thompson, shot in what appears to be a targeted attack, led a company notorious for its high claim denial rates, fueling ongoing debates about corporate ethics in healthcare.

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[–] nifty 19 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Reddit is a piece of shit platform, people who use it deserve the poor treatment they sign up for

[–] youstolemyname 7 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Earth is a shit platform. How do I unsubscribe?!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Just be a CEO of a large corrupt corporation and someone will be along shortly to process your request.

[–] Demonmariner 2 points 1 week ago

Easy, just start a new instance and leave this one.

[–] newthrowaway20 2 points 1 week ago

Oh don't worry, earth will handle that for us.

[–] Zess 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Because Lemmy has never had a moderation problem 🙄🙄

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago (1 children)

on reddit, you have to hope an admin replaces a bad mod. On lemmy, you can create a competing community that's well modded, and the user base will generally want to be where the mods are chill, and follow.

[–] tamal3 2 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I don't mean to sideline the conversation too much, but I'm only part of .world. What are some other recommendations? I've seen lots of complaints about moderator censorship here, though I don't want to end up in a dark hole of violence, either.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

I like where I ended up. I started on Lemmy.ml

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I was speaking more about Community (equivalent to a subreddit) moderation, as opposed to instance level moderation from admins, since for the most part a community mod is what users will be interacting with.

I wouldn't worry much about .world being your home instance. The only real downside is you can't post or comment on Beehaw, since they defederated from World due to a lack of moderation tools on their end.

.World is the largest instance, so if you wanted to help spread the load across the fediverse and prevent centralization, you could export all your subscriptions to a new account elsewhere.

If you go that route, I'd personally recommend looking for an instance that at least has Hexbear and Lemmygrad in their block list. Lemmy.cafe is a good choice for a smaller instance, while Sopuli.xyz is a solid medium sized one, both general instances. But if you'd like a more themed instance that appeals to you, by all means go for that instead. https://lemmyverse.net/ or the instance finder tool at https://join-lemmy.org/ are good places to find one. :)

[–] tamal3 3 points 1 week ago

This is very helpful, thank you. I will read this post over a few times as I consider and explore Lemmy.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Lemm.ee or sh.itjust.works are probably the best options right now. World is the most similar to Reddit, and a lot of subreddits were essentially replicated on world.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

I choose sh.itjust.works on name alone, and I couldn't be happier with the choice

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

reddthat is pretty dope