Reddit tried to sticky this post for moderators around 12p CST today, and they’ve since tried to bury it. Thought it might be good to back up the link here.

  • TomTheGeek@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    It’s far better than reddit is but real discussions still aren’t allowed to happen. Before 2016 or so I was still subscribed to /politics because while we didn’t always agree, we could at least discuss. Then in 2016 everyone got TDS and became a fragile child, unable to handle adult topics without banning or reporting. Wrongthink became a reality. And it’s very much a reality here at lemmy.world and other large fediverse instances.

    • Leviathan@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Before 2016 you didn’t have right wing bots convincing all the fringe morons to band together for fascism. I was on Reddit before, discourse was civil until the right went crazy and started believing anything that aligned even slightly with their views. Then anyone who disagreed was a “fragile child” or criticizing their leaders was met with the likes of “TDS”. All they do is parrot buzzwords.

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      1 year ago

      “Nobody wants to debate me when I bring up my political views and I can’t stand downvotes!”

      This is what you sound like right now. What specifically is your definition of “wrongthink”?

      • TomTheGeek@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        I don’t mind downvotes. But I cannot debate when banned.

        And there is no subtlety in the mods behaviour. They ban based on dog whistles that only they can hear.