Censorship disguised as moderation. This is exactly what killed reddit. You can't have a discussion over there without getting banned, it's just individual echo chambers who all censor and ban each other

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Or maybe, its not actually an unpopular opinion!

[–] IndustryStandard 11 points 2 days ago (2 children)

People think they have an unpopular opinion because they do not realize everyone with the same opinion was censored.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

That's the logic that ends dictators.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

I don't know about that. People post obviously popular opinions repeatedly if they aren't banned.

Unpopular opinion, but I dislike the top ten Christmas songs

Yeah, no shit. Even though they are the "top ten".

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It's just a list of nouns and proper nouns. Depending on what your post is, it could be a very unpopular opinion! Censoring words is why I won't ever go back to Reddit...

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

Don't get me wrong, banning words is stupid and gives us the Scunthorpe problem and I am very glad that we have an alternative to Reddit because its just a cesspit.

The subreddit "r/unpopularOpinions" was not full of unpopular opinions, and the words banned were obviously popular opinions because everyone talked about them until the API change and the regime cracked down.

[–] hesusingthespiritbomb 5 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Hate to break it to you but reddit isn't dead.

I still go on reddit. In a lot of ways it's a lot worse than it used to be. It's way more corporate. Huge portions of the site seem sanitized, often in obvious and eyeroll inducing ways. There's also a lot less content in general. The content that does exist is lower effort, and way more repetitive.

However in some ways it's genuinely better. The discourse is a lot less toxic than it used to be. A lot of genuine cruelty wrapped in virtue signaling that defined the site from 2018 to 2022 is either gone or greatly diminished. It's also slightly less of an echo chamber.

I think what happened is that after the mobile apocalypse, a lot of the power users left the platform. While these people contributed a lot to the site, they were also extremely toxic people with an even more warped worldview.

The mods are a reflection of this. They are more corporate, which leads to a lot of censorship like this. However it also means that scrolling is quite a bit more pleasant.

Overall I spend more time on Reddit than Lemmy. There's very little content here once you filter out all the outrage bait.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

You may be on the wrong communities, i could waste a day here. I actually use reddit for ragebait (i just can't quit aitah)

[–] Duamerthrax 1 points 2 days ago

Digg died. Reddit will also die eventually.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Or, hear me out, maybe people were tied of way too many posts in the community being about recent politics, so moderators took action on that?

It's not a good look to be broadly banning those words, but it seems to me like there's a reasonable and obvious expansion.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 days ago

that's easily dissuaded by no re-posts or reddits algorithm burying those. The problem was more likely because they were popular and highly engaged so they had to step in. Fucking "spez" is in there and you still feel the need to play devil's advocate?

[–] Nuke_the_whales 5 points 2 days ago

Usually when I'm tired of reading about a subject I just don't click on those threads, I don't censor people