Edit: Oops, it is /r/Tennessee, not /r/ProgressiveHQ
We MUST Protect Jeffrey Epstein!
-Republicans!
We need to stop attacking pedophiles!
- Ted Cruz
*Can we
But yeah fuck Raphael
Guy should do an AMA and then bring this up
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
My very first Lemmy post was in what is essentially the only Lemmy comics group, and it got removed because it contained “profanity”.
I was trying to post original content directly to Lemmy, which is something no one ever does. But it got removed, so fuck it, I posted it to reddit. Two hours later, it was on the front page of reddit. So not to toot my own horn, but I think that’s a sign that it was pretty fucking premium OC, the kind of content that a Lemmy mod should want in their community.
I’ve since seen it reposted all over the internet, and it’s hit the reddit front page several more times.
The profanity in question: “balls”.
I once got into a debate on a left wing community about the methods to outsmart conservatives. The guy wasn’t agreeing with me, at one point I said “doing the same thing is just lunacy” I was removed and banned for “ableism” That’s the best the mod could come up with to silence my opinion.
I once solved Goldbach’s conjecture in only 7 lines. Mods absolutely deleted it. Reason given? Damn, if I could remember that I could remember the proof
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.
You see the same effect in person, too, with HOAs being the most notorious example. But there are many volunteer-based organizations that do incredible good work. Power tripping is a thing to watch out for and build guardrails against, but thankfully it’s not universal.
Thing is tho, you own r/bastard mods, you own it entirely
You own c/bastardmods.lemmy.bastard, people move to c/bastardmods.lemmy.fuckyou
It kinda fucks with me when mindlessly scrolling and being like “didn’t I see this exact post not 10b seconds ago?”. Then realizing it’s a separate instance.
That problem isn’t unique to Lemmy, though. Reddit had many similar duplicate subs.
10… billion seconds ago?
Good memory
*expect
TBF the Reddit mods who do a good job never get talked about. I’ve seen very reasonable mod teams
Why would you bother talking about them, I suppose. Bitching about dickheads - fun, wow, everyone loves a moan. Complimenting the capable? Dull, flat, uninteresting
That is basically the same reason that conservatives have been able to sell the lie that government programs are inefficient compared to the dictatorship of corporations. You don’t hear anything about the vast majority of government programs, because they work. You only hear about the ones that got corruption and greed mixed in, because those can be called wasteful. In reality most government programs are far more efficient than any corporation could hope to be.
Particularly egregious because any private replacement of a govt program is inherently a monopoly and therefore, by economic rules, almost certain to be wasteful and shite. And outcome metrics are financial rather than intentional. Yeah but ok let’s not go down this hole, we all know where we stand.
You only hear about the ones that got corruption and greed mixed in, because those can be called wasteful.
Incidentally the parts of Medicaid that have the most fraud are run by private corporations
Yikes on bikes.
Expect?
Exactly!
Extractly?
Shiiet. At least they awnser. Other mods just mute you for 30 days for asking and report you for harassment if write again afterwards.
Time to get in touch with Mr. Hoffstetter and point him and his millions of followers in this direction.
Reddit is so wild now, man. I got a three day site-wide ban for commenting on a LAMF thread about Mitch McConnell not liking the direction of the Republican party now even though he was one of the architects. My comment agreed. Apparently I was harassing Mitch McConnell.
Why can a mod in one subreddit ban someone from the whole site?
Wow we can’t even criticize our politicians anymore? Land of the free, my ass. And fuck reddit, toxic wasteland.
Haven’t been to Tennessee, I went to Louisville Kentucky, I hated it there. It was like going back in time, all white people in suits, the only black person was homeless. The homeless guy was moving place to place so shop owners wouldn’t have time to harass him. Nothing like a fancy meal in a high class restaurant full of well off white dudes and a homeless black guy outside the window.
Man, fuck reddit. If you aren’t a conservative anything can get you modded or banned.
Same with Lemmy but in reverse…
Given that conservatism is just bigotry in a trench coat, I’ve no issue there.
Structurally, I don’t think anything is stopping a conservative safe space community from being spun up on one of the more neutral instances. But if conservatives have mainstream safe spaces already on x, Facebook, reddit, and smaller more extreme places like patriot.win, why would they come to lemmy?
“Conservative” can mean a really wide variety of things to people who identify that way. Like the other reply to you, I am not sad there aren’t lemmy communities dedicated to celebrating bad things happening to brown or non-Christian people. But it does seem like a hole to be missing discussions of fiscal responsibility (actual responsibility, not the “two Santas” scam) or how to effectively increase the proportion of children in two-parent households (actual increase, not the “redirect welfare money from poor people to middle-class marriage counseling”).
US conservatism broadly used to have policy pieces I agreed with, but the fake implementation in the times and places they have had power has made me really disillusioned.
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.
It worked to keep gun sales hugely high volume and high profit for decades. “The dems are about to take away your right to buy guns, go buy them now while you can! We’ve said this every election for the last thirty years, but this time it’s serious!”
It sucks so bad that it’s such a long-term effective strategy. Fighting it would mean figuring out how to regulate both social and traditional media to reduce engagement bait lies, but I don’t know if we have a path to that.
I mean, Tennessee is as red as you can get. Except maybe Nashville.
Memphis checking in…
I’ve checked the Tennessee subreddit and it doesn’t seem very active. The first post is 17h old and about the special election. The news article that was posted, is not positive for the republican party. The reddit comments are overwhelmingly against Van Epps. The post itself was posted by a mod. https://old.reddit.com/r/Tennessee/comments/1pajj2w/tennessee_congressional_race_becomes_unlikely/
This doesn’t look like a rightwing echo chamber to me. Maybe the outsider that was calling for action, was removed because they take their rule about removing agitators seriously. Imo there may still be a problem of too strict modding, because of how inactive the subreddit looks.
Fucking Reddit.
Use protection
And what about /c/Tennessee on here?
Obligatory fuck reddit comment
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.
So weird to imagine having political adverts on television.
We have them here for big elections, kinda, but they’re special government mandated broadcasts that each party have access to in order to get their message out for free to ensure equal representation, otherwise you could have a situation where the party with the most money to burn could sway the election results in their favour with a bigger ad campaign.
The easy way to avoid them is just to not watch broadcast television. Something I’ve been doing for a decade now. I haven’t seen a political TV ad since then.
Citizens United says that money is free speech… so all the adverts by all the political action committees
Practically the GD dog catcher gets pac money. :/
Shits absolutely stupid
the party with the most money to burn could sway the election results in their favour with a bigger ad campaign
in the US we get around this problem by having the same corporate and 1% donors funding all 2 of our political parties. so whether you vote for wage slavery or you vote for begrudgingly agreeing to wage slavery, you know your voice will be heard and you will die penniless and starving.
No outside political agitators (This is a broad one, but if we look at your post history and all you do is spam geographical subs stirring the political cauldron we will remove your post and ban you from this sub)
The lesson on Reddit (if you still use that platform) is to hide your history. I’m guessing they used this rule for the ban. Bans from subs should exclusively be for content posted on that sub. If something is bad enough to warrant a sitewide ban, that is another matter.
Anyhow, there are is another post about the election: https://old.reddit.com/r/Tennessee/comments/1p36q6s/millions_pour_into_tennessee_special_election/
This raises the question: Is there somebody else on that sub posting about the special election? There should be enough Tennesseans that at least one of them should post there.
Blue dots in a sea of red. I’m in a similar political geography and you see a similar pattern.
I’m sure there’s been quite a few posts, but they just don’t last.
Reddit is sort of dead.
You are guessing, but they already said why, so we have no need to guess.
That history can be made visible on the new layout with the complicated hack of going to the profile page, and using the search bar to search for a space or an asterisk.
Reddit sucks? Gosh, next you’re going to tell me Twitter and Facebook are bad, too!
Twitter and Facebook are bad as well.
Ask a question or express an opinion that goes against the group think on .ml
Lemmy is worse than Reddit because it thinks it’s pure but it isn’t.
i dunno it’s pure batshit most days
