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Edit: Oops, it is /r/Tennessee, not /r/ProgressiveHQ

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[–] RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

"Well, I do mind because I motherfucking live here, and I'm not having a good day. So how about you stop being a fucking knob and answer my question?"

[–] ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Me too. What district?Is it a senatpr? I'm drowning in hopelessness over here.

[–] RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 1 points 28 minutes ago

I am not, haha, sorry. That was just my hypothetical response.

[–] regeya@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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?

[–] OldChicoAle@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Wow we can't even criticize our politicians anymore? Land of the free, my ass. And fuck reddit, toxic wasteland.

[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] SoloCritical@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

All Reddit mods are cunts. No exceptions.

[–] Aljernon@lemmy.today 25 points 1 day ago

Obligatory fuck reddit comment

[–] GaryGhost@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

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.

[–] imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 1 day ago

Reddit mod moment ☕

[–] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 62 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Lmao reddit mods love sucking nazi cock

[–] daannii@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

They got rid of all of us mods who didn't bow and kiss the ring and the star.

Now all that's left is the worst of the mods.

[–] FalschgeldFurkan@lemmy.world 74 points 2 days ago (2 children)

From

The start page of the internet

To:

this tiny little corner on the internet

Reddit sure has come far

[–] Dorkyd68@lemmy.world 24 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

At one point it was a glorious place. Then 5 people became admins and mods of the most popular 100 sub reddits and began controlling the narrative to fit their beliefs. In my opinion reddit has been dead for at least 5 years now

[–] GaMEChld@lemmy.world 18 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Front page, I believe was what they called themselves. But yeah, it's been a glorious fall.

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[–] jazzkoalapaws@ttrpg.network 47 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Fuck reddit, and fuck censorship.

[–] Credibly_Human@lemmy.world 25 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (6 children)

Lets be clear though, reddit is only worse than lemmy because it is centralized by one group of douchebags.

Lemmy has plenty of shitty moderation too, and arguably is worse at dealing with it within any given instance due to the lack of proper mod tools, the way posts that are deleted remove entire comment sections from being accessible, the lack of any appeals system and I'm sure a few other things I don't remember off the top of my head.

Its a people problem, and its a style of organization problem with this style of forum.

[–] EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

reddit is only worse than lemmy because it is centralized by one group of douchebags

That's a really big distinguishing factor though. When a group gets "too big to fail," it becomes a problem by giving said group too much control. Look at the genocide apologist mods on /r/worldnews .

The de-centralization / fragmentation of Lemmy is an important check against bad moderation.

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[–] kaidenshi@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Lemmy has plenty of shitty moderation too

Oh absolutely. Not long after I created my account, I saw an obvious spam post on All, I downvoted it and went about my day. Turns out I was banned from that community because of that downvote. I asked why and was told that because I downvoted a post in a community I wasn't subbed to, I was banned for "brigading" even though it was a spam post. I wonder if I had upvoted despite not being a community member if I would have been banned?

More recently, I reported a comment for a common ableist slur (against someone else, not me), and the reply to the report was "doesn't break the community rules and also we agree with the guy who said it". I looked up their community rules and they specifically say all opinions are welcome and not to attack or harass others, which I would presume calling someone the "R" word for having an opinion would violate both tenets of that rule set. Nope, they support garbage like that despite what their rules say, so I told them to please ban me.

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[–] RunawayFixer@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

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.

[–] BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 45 points 2 days ago (2 children)

The mod of a fascist sub about a fascist state of a fascist country on a fascist website is behaving like fascist? I’m shocked.

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[–] EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 13 points 2 days ago (4 children)

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/

[–] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Lol, what a garbage site. They have so many different layouts and versions of the site that I'm not surprised they fucked up on (at least) one of them.

The more complicated you make something, the more room you are giving yourself to fuck up.

So better lesson on Reddit: just don't bother with it.

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[–] Sunflier@lemmy.world 55 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Reddit has really gone down the hole and sucks Republican cock hard.

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[–] letsgo2themall@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I mean, Tennessee is as red as you can get. Except maybe Nashville.

[–] HelluvaKick@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 206 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

Tennessean here who tried to organize on my state/city subreddits. Can confirm this kind of partisan censorship is not new.

A while ago I made a innocuous enough post on my city's sub about a "Release the Epstein Files" billboard that went up and was paid for by our local Mobilize chapter. Within an hour it was the most upvoted post of the past month. Within 2, it was removed without reason and I was blocked and banned permantly

[–] RustyShackleford@piefed.social 81 points 3 days ago (23 children)

That’s Reddit, I was banned from a Pokemon Go subreddit for being against Niantic forcibly leaving their sandbox environment on iOS.

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[–] KonalaKoala@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

And what about /c/Tennessee on here?

[–] sleepmode@lemmy.world 73 points 2 days ago (2 children)

What a power-tripping little dick energy cunt. God I fucking hate reddit.

[–] Bazell@lemmy.zip 39 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

That is why Lemmy exists. And I hope that even more people will start using it since new harsh Reddit policies have appeared.

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[–] Bazell@lemmy.zip 29 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)
[–] blockheadjt@sh.itjust.works 68 points 2 days ago

A person in Tennessee defending pedophiles and abusing power in that pursuit?

Shocked, shocked I tell you.

[–] BigMacHole@sopuli.xyz 146 points 3 days ago (1 children)

We MUST Protect Jeffrey Epstein!

-Republicans!

[–] Blackfeathr@lemmy.world 74 points 3 days ago (2 children)

We need to stop attacking pedophiles!

  • Ted Cruz
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[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 65 points 2 days ago (12 children)

Wow. Just fucking wow.

Does Facebook and X do similar types of censoring when it comes to the Republican agenda?

Or is it somehow easier to install them as mods on Reddit subs, making it appear to be more “grass roots” without blaming the platform itself for censorship and bias?

I guess of fb you have “groups” (as opposed to subs) where you could install similar “mods.”

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[–] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 21 points 2 days ago

Abandon Reddit and leave it as a Government of Putin cesspool filled with Russian shills. If the Volunteer Oblast votes for Van Epstein, fuck them too for protecting pedophiles, rapists and felons.

[–] kandoh@reddthat.com 14 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Basically all the local subreddits have right-wing mods and a cadre of incels that try to drive the conversation constantly towards minorities who commit crimes

[–] pinheadednightmare@lemmy.world 95 points 3 days ago (30 children)

This is why Reddit is garbage and anyone that still has an account on there is only fueling the fire. Fuck Reddit and their mods

[–] zd9@lemmy.world 64 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Reddit's glory days were when it was big enough to have consistently interesting stuff, especially in the niche subs, but not so big that bad actors (corporatization, foreign influence, domestic partisan bots, hate groups) could enshitify it. Now it's practically unusable.

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