Reddit moderators doing a 31 billion dollar corporation's bitch work for free.
Not only that but they're protecting the interests of people who make more money in a single year than they'll make in their entire lifetime.
this post was submitted on 04 Jan 2025
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This is not a pro-murder community. Please respect Lemmy.world ToS.
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Surely this would be the Reddit admins banning the subreddit? I can't imagine the mods banning their own subreddit, if that's even possible.
for free
I absolutely assure you that Reddit is getting paid for this shit. Spez doesn't lift a finger without a string attached.
they’re protecting the interests of people who make more money in a single year than they’ll make in their entire lifetime
They're the loyal dogs of the corporate elite because they get the scraps thrown from the table. And when you've got a $25T table, those are some very nice scraps.
The company is but the moderators are not employees of the company, they’re volunteers
the moderators are not employees of the company
A great deal of the moderation of popular communities has been captured by affiliated parties. The folks modding /r/marvel and /r/starcraft and /r/conservative aren't just schmoes who got to those handles first. They've been auctioned off to third parties with a vested financial interest in a particularly kind of moderation occurring on those communities.
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I'll probably get downvoted for this but I feel like Lemmy is like the salty friend who can't get over their ex and gets off on the issues going on in their life without them.
It's not weird or particularly unhealthy to look back at the person you were close to, but betrayed you, and realize that all of your interactions with them were actually them being an asshole, and the people who still support them are assholes too. Nor is it particularly unhealthy to have a bit of schadenfreude about the suffering of those who chose the asshole over you, while hopefully still having some sympathy and hope that they escape.
It's how I feel about Taylor swift fans, at least.
I don't disagree with you. However, when I see a post like this every day it gets old to me. Though to be fair, Lemmy content doesn't come from a single person and everyone on here is at a different phase in their journey.
Ok, but there's also post from 4chan, Xitter, Facebook, and everywhere else on the internet. Reddit, and now Lemmy, grab information and memes from literally everywhere so you don't have to.
There's always going to be a subject someone doesn't care for. Thankfully though, there's filters in most every app now. The ones further along in their Lemmy journey tend to use them instead of complaining about having to see things repeatedly.
I say what's the internet for if not an outlet for me to complain ;-)
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And it's not like reddit isn't still relevant to us, you know? We also get bsky and twitter posts on here
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It's not that simple. People want to participate where communities are, some are still largely on reddit. There's also the free labor active submitters do regarding submissions, and they decide on what platform they participate in.
People want to participate where communities are, some are still largely on reddit.
So much of the community atmosphere of the site has been undercut and replaced by automated accounts that generate content from historical human conversations. Like, straight up, whole content threads get lifted and shifted between posts to create the illusion of participation. If you've been on the site for a while, its downright surreal.
Between that and the militant banning of anyone who isn't an empty-headed twit or a reflexive cheerleader, there's very little human activity left on the site to speak of. You're not in a community, you're in a graveyard. Most of the people you're talking to are digital ghosts.
There’s also the free labor active submitters do regarding submissions
Less and less by year. Again, it can't be stressed how much of Reddit is entirely automated. A handful of accounts, often directly or indirectly managed by the source of the content, are doing the lion's share of the posting and commenting. Real human interaction is being minimalized. Reddit's real money isn't in posters anymore, its in lurkers. You're supposed to look, not touch.
Ehh, more like were are all hanging out at a local bar and the owner all of a sudden got a case of assholeism. Started going fucking nuts, screwing with food/drink quality and availability, started fucking over the servers and bartenders. We hate him and want all the good people to get out and the place to burn to the ground.
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In this case, the ex is an influential person with millions of friends, so what they do matters.
And horrifically abusive.
Honestly I like these kinds of posts as it lets me know that I made a good choice to not go back to Reddit. Plus I can show these to people I know who still use Reddit which might push them away as well.
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Brian Thompson was a mass murderer who deserved to die, as are his peers
Good for him, he should spend some time also doing some other things.
He should spend time out. Touch some grass. Jurors should be aware of nullification.
Nullification might not even be necessary. Several of the alleged photos taken had him have some minor differences that can tell me they are different person.
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I got banned permanently off Reddit just for supporting him, that's what pushed me to find an alternative
Welcome! How did you hear about Lemmy?
Just did a bit of googling and it was recommended
Nice
Reddit has long ago passed the tipping point between content and commercial interest. They're only interested in being profitable, safe, and inoffensive for marketing partners. The life has gone out of it, it's just a product now.
What pisses me off is that there is no ready made platform ready to take the user exodus. Digg died basically in 6 months because reddit was ready and super duper easy to sign up.
Lemmy simply isn't easy to sign up for and understand for better or worse
Lemmy simply isn’t easy to sign up for and understand for better or worse
Why?
Just use something easy like
Lemmy has 44k monthly active users.
- https://discuss.online/ if you're American
- https://sopuli.xyz/ if you're European
https://vger.app/ if you want an app
Feel free if you have any questions
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It has NEVER been a real place.
I was there from day zero... to give some context I mailed spez his own source code when his server was misconfigured for VERBOSE error reporting. This was when he was trying to program a user registration system.
The very first conversations had on Reddit, and I'm including myself in this, were all squabbling about useless horseshit.
Reddit has always been a shitshow. Bacon, narwhals, and so forth to convince people that there's some kind of community there, when there is not and never has been.
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MarioMangitwo?
Posting violent content? Aren't there literally gore subreddits over there where you can watch people get tortured?
If the subreddit for fat shaming got banned, I highly doubt gore subreddits still exist lol
r/ActualPublicFreakouts has shootings and decapitations uploaded there daily.
It's the current r/WatchPeopleDie
That one got burned because it was visible and had bag publicity. Reddit doesn't care about terrible things they care about the public hearing about the terribly things
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Keep zooming to that grave Reddit
Im surprised r/freeluigi and r/luigemangionejustice havent been banned they banned r/mariosbro and r/freeluigi2 as well as some others. Our corporate overlords are pissing their $5,000 pairs of designer slacks. And look at the loosers on r/fuckluigimangione it would be funny if it wasn't so sad https://imgur.com/gallery/rbqSckH
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Spez getting shot with bullets with /r/jailbait, subreddit, moderator written on them when?
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Should someone try to point them to here?
Good luck... reddit admins/mods don't like lemmy references. Only attempt if you don't mind losing your account or permabans from whatever sub you post to.
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As much as I want to say that Reddit's rules against glorifying violence are cut & dry, I cannot blame anyone who sympathizes with Luigi Mangione especially when the system is outright crooked. I get the frustration when nearly every Reddit post about Luigi ends up getting locked because the mods are either overwhelmed with or are too fucking lazy to moderate comments (I theorize the latter.) Brian Thompson has been responsible for far more deaths due to him employing AI algorithms that have trebled UnitedHealthcare's rejection of insurance claims, but the difference is that the American people are expected to put up and shut up with his antics. You can't vote with your wallet because good luck suing a corporation that brings in twelve figures of annual revenues for a wrongly-denied claim. Nor can you literally vote with your ballot paper because both the Democrats and Republicans are corporate bootlickers that have enabled widespread anti-consumer behaviour in the first place.
Not saying that Brian deserved what he got, but these are the actions of someone who had been brought to the end of their tether by the health insurance system.
Things can go either way for Luigi. He faces the very real possibility of jury nullification, but also, maybe the justice system is going to mess with the legal process so much that he's gonna end up going through what is effectively a kangaroo court.
On the subject of Reddit, throwing Ellen Pao under the bus and bringing back that Tintin-looking cuck as CEO is probably the worst thing Reddit's board has done. Spez has been nothing but poison for the site.
Not saying that Brian Thompson deserved what he got
I am
Brian Thompson deserved far worse.
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