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[–] Sauerkraut@discuss.tchncs.de 41 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Reddit is shadow banning people like crazy as well. This is scary

what's the difference between government censorship, and corporate censorship by organs closely tied to the government, and corporate censorship by organs closely tied to the government where certain phrases are randomly declared punishable by death?

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

Yeah, I was shadowbanned twice in a week because Reddit filters are garbage.

[–] undone@lemm.ee 1 points 1 day ago (3 children)

What does shadow banning typically look like? I would assume you don't get a notification? How do you find out?

[–] dumblederp@aussie.zone 2 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Logout and browse your user profile page via old.Reddit it'll say banned or suspended.

[–] undone@lemm.ee 2 points 20 hours ago

Ah. That's even easier. Good to know how to quickly check.

[–] melpomenesclevage@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

you do a thing, but there are no interactions. maybe in only certain contexts. so to you it appears as if you're engaging, but your posts and sometimes reactions/votes don't show up except to you.

[–] undone@lemm.ee 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

haha. seeing as I don't usually get much interaction I would never notice.

switched to lemmy as main platform on my phone a few days ago anyway. when boost for reddit finally was blocked completely. will try to be more active here and hope many other people do the same... there is a good chance with all that's going on.

yeah I probably wouldn't notice if everyone else in town was replaced by robots tomorrow until I went and tried to feed randos and found they didn't eat anymore.

[–] Crazazy@feddit.nl 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

How do you find out?

I assume looking at reddit through an incognito window and seeing none of your posts appearing

[–] undone@lemm.ee 1 points 1 day ago

Hmm. Will try it some time. Sometimes it feels like being shadow-banned.... but TBH it's more likely just not so active communities / mediocre contribution on my part.

[–] RabbitBBQ@lemmy.world 31 points 1 day ago (2 children)

To be fair, American democracy was replaced with corporate Government a long long time ago.

[–] sik0fewl@lemmy.ca 18 points 1 day ago

Ya, but now you can't talk about it.

[–] MITM0@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

America was never a democracy in the first place

[–] TranslateErr0r@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

The real title:

"Meta rep flagged 'critiques of tech industry figures' as 'sensitive or controversial content'"

[–] chellybeans@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Guess we can consider that a confession.

[–] Alloi@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

any terminally ill people down to go down in history as a fucking chad with a rifle or a drone?? anyone??

[–] tree_frog@lemm.ee 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

We're all terminally ill on a long enough timeline.

So... Was that an offer to be our chad?

[–] Alloi@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

im canadian, i wouldnt want to cause ww3 by assassinating a foreign leader.

Sorry Americans, this is your mess, you gotta clean it up this time :/

[–] melpomenesclevage@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

cause world war 3

dude, if a canadian assassinated any american leaders, I'd just think more highly of canadians.

plus, they're gonna invade you at some point anyway.

not that it should be your responsibility. the travel costs alone; oof. there are people who walk by these bastards every day.

[–] Billybob22@feddit.uk 35 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Shut down and delete your data on your US tech accounts. Their business's are worthless without our accounts.

It's a process, start today! With the easy ones and work towards the hard ones.

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[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 34 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Everyone needs to GTFO facebook. We can hardly do it because every other HOA and School PTA is there, but we get stop using messenger and stop having personal discussions over there.

[–] Jimius@lemmy.ml 21 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Don't accept it when organizations require you to sign up and hand over personal information to private and commercial third parties. Requiring Facebook is an active attempt at curbing participation.

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[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago

Zuckerberg, go play with your BBS and let us worry about what needs to be discussed in this myopic, dystopic world.

[–] Vopyr@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago (8 children)

Wait, corporate government, like in cyberpunk?

[–] Silk@lemm.ee 4 points 1 day ago

I'm reading the Sprawl trilogy along with Shelved By Genre, and Gibson harps on the note that 'the Ultra Rich aren't human', and has some great examples in the books.

I think he was very observant, and Musk makes it so blatant.

[–] Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 1 day ago

Basically. I mean there's a bit more to it than that but it's the core idea. It's also the goal of several tech oligarchs which is why he doesn't want the peons to be able to talk about it.

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[–] Jhex@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Quit Meta... problem solved

[–] peaceful_world_view@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I have another solution, it's a little bloodier

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[–] jsomae@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] peaceful_world_view@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] levzzz@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)
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[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

as long as we get rollerball I guess I'm okay with it.

[–] HappinessPill@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Welcome to Facebook the capital of Meta country, jokes aside, they are banning because it's a long term thing and they are scared of it derailing if too many people know.

[–] DogWater@lemmy.world 31 points 2 days ago (2 children)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RpPTRcz1no

WATCH THIS IF YOURE NOT SURE WHAT HES BANNING THE DISCUSSION OF

It's terrifying

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[–] LoveSausage@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Thats a weird way of saying fascism

[–] Mongostein@lemmy.ca 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Oh, this is the 15-minute cities they’re scared of.

Fucking insane how these people twist a good idea in to something evil, then support the evil version of that idea.

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Delay, Deny, [redacted]

[–] MITM0@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Isn't that already happening ?

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