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[–] octopus_ink@slrpnk.net 18 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Ironically, I swing by old.shittyplace.com to check out /r/conservative and/or /r/askaconservative every so often to see if any of them are starting to figure it out yet (spoiler alert: they aren't, or they are celebrating it), and they always have a first page thread about how Reddit is just a liberal recruiting mouthpiece these days etc etc.

Today is no exception.

And for a bonus they have a thread about how Ask Reddit is just out of control with bait for conservatives - I took a peek and there are two current threads that have anything at all to do with conservatives.

The conservative persecution complex is strong, never fear.

Remember, conservative voices must be getting silenced because they never shut the fuck up telling us so.

[–] RunawayFixer 3 points 1 day ago

Demonizing outside influences is common to all cults. It innoculates the cult members to those outside influences, leading them to immediately disregard information that contradicts their cultist beliefs, keeping them trapped within the cult's echo chamber more effectively. To keep the cultists innoculated, they have to constantly remind them that they and their beliefs are being persecuted and that the only source of truth, is the cult leaders.

That said, how "real" is r/conservative? I just checked it and every single thread is flaired users only. It's a far more controlled echo chamber than the Donald was in it's heyday, and when the Sint-Petersburg troll farm was brought offline during the usa elections of 2018, the Donald was gone from reddit's front page for the duration.

To me it seems like r/conservative is a method of distributing the current narrative to cultists, but it doesn't require actual input or discussion from those cultists. It seems to actually discourage posting by normal conservative users, since any kind of wrongthink will lead to a ban, and it's hard to keep up with the changing narratives for normal users, so catching a ban is easy.

[–] Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Trump is openly preparing to invade both Canada and Mexico and these motherfuckers are bitching about Musk being called what he is!

[–] TronBronson 7 points 1 day ago

The party of "fuck your feelings" everyone!

[–] Houseman 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I just got a violent content warning for upvoting someone calling musk a "stupid person's version of a smart man" on a post about his trucks being vandalized.

[–] Lazylazycat 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Jfc people should be allowed to call dumb people dumb.

[–] Houseman 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I know. I just like pretending to have a miniscule amount of hope.

[–] Cinder_bloc 7 points 1 day ago

I’m about at my wits end with Reddit as a regular user. I have 2 accounts that I’ve used there for a while. One of them is my main user account, the other I use mostly to mod some subs.

My main account recently caught a 7 day ban because of their stupid new “Violence” bullshit. It’s so targeted, and blatantly obvious that it really only applies to comments about certain things. They removed the comment that supposedly triggered it, but all I was was

Hey Leon, you remember when you hit the cybertruck with a baseball bat? Why don’t you go fuck yourself with it.

That’s it, that’s all I said. You could post that same comment directed at an actual Reddit user, and not catch a ban.

Don’t misunderstand me here. I am not now, nor have a I ever been under the delusion that Reddit was the bastion of free speech they tried to claim for years. But seriously, they need to get their fucking heads out of their fucking asses.

[–] Jucha 5 points 1 day ago

Removing stuff from reddit will make people look for alternatives, good for lemmy.

[–] drhodl 33 points 2 days ago (13 children)

I got perma banned from my OG account for engaging with ruzzian trolls. Apparently telling them they'd look good fertilizing sunflowers, and digging babushka a fresh latrine pit is "promoting violence". No warnings, just straight to ban. Reddit allows obvious ruzzian gas lighters, but bans those who call them out. That is Reddit today, a hotbed of ruzzian and nazi propaganda.

[–] PeteZa@lemm.ee 15 points 1 day ago (9 children)

I got perma banned for being too mean to MAGAs

[–] FuglyDuck 7 points 1 day ago

you probably offended u/Spez on his alt account .

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 8 points 1 day ago

alot of politics and news subs have been co-opted by right leaning people.

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

Same here, I simply made a comment about "the Muscovites receiving a dose of their own medicine" and fucking Russian shill, Putin Bot and/or MAGAt reported me. To top it off, I did not use a single swear word in the comment. Fuck Russia and Reddit.

[–] drhodl 10 points 2 days ago

It's hilarious how magats don't like free speech when it's directed against them. Bunch of loathesome pussies.

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[–] Yuckers1967@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago

Started to notice the censorship...tried to warn others...got banned...came here

[–] pixelpure@lemm.ee 50 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Reddit sure loves to protect U.S. fascists.

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[–] Adiemus@lemm.ee 35 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I just deleted my reddit account. 🤟😎

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[–] Jaberw0cky 24 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I deleted my reddit account yesterday. I used Revedit and I realised that most of the comments I had made on there had been removed or hidden without me ever realising...

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[–] Red_October 37 points 2 days ago (3 children)

It's become pretty clear that Reddit has chosen to slide into corpo-fascism. Don't be surprised when signs of dissent are squashed, when rebellious subreddits are systematically suppressed until they're removed entirely, when the accounts of those who resist are closed and IP banned. Abandon all hope of free expression there, they've chosen their side and aren't going to entertain the opposition any longer.

[–] barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 27 points 2 days ago (3 children)

After 12 years, and nearly a million karma, i was permabanned right after HitlerPig was inaugurated, for repeating an opinion that i have stated many times. Nobody ever said a word until HitlerPig was in office, then suddenly I was permabanned. I came over to Lemmy, only to find i wasn't alone.

I suspect the reason is because Ohanion wamts to buy TikTok, and he knows that HitlerPig will be making the decision personally, based on who smooches his ass, follows his orders, and pays the biggest bribe. So as a show of good faith, he abandons Reddit's doctrine of Free Speech.

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[–] sirico@feddit.uk 3 points 1 day ago (3 children)

So desperate to even be Zuckerberg relevant pathetic

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[–] skozzii@lemmy.ca 19 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (5 children)

Tesla is losing a pile of cash, anyone know how low it needs to go until Musk is going to get a margin call and the whole thing comes crumbling down? He has leveraged himself to the max.

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