What in your opinion is going on at Reddit right now?

I mentioned politics explicitly. I didn’t hide that. I mentioned it because politics has taken over almost all social media, especially Reddit and Lemmy.

What’s “actually going down” on Reddit these days?

Completely missed the point I see.

I feel like you didn’t even read my post, as every sentence you wrote was already addressed.

Or in Lemmy’s situation, to continue the censorship after Twitter put a stop to theirs.

The answer is to create new instances that don’t allow abuses of power. We shouldn’t be afraid of being ‘defederated’ from the abusive instances.

Unfortunately at this stage it seems that most of the people using Lemmy want extreme moderation and censorship. They want no disagreement, no challenging their opinions and ideologies, and as such they wouldn’t join an instance that allows actual free speech and difference of opinion. If you know of any instances with a decent amount of people let me know, cause I don’t know how much longer I’ll bother with Lemmy given how they call everyone they hate fascists…while banning everyone who doesn’t participate in their circle jerk.

Decentralization solves some problems, sure, but it creates new and arguably worse problems. Let’s take Lemmy for example. Power hungry mods can and do still ban you from communities that you’ve never interacted with and there’s nothing you can do about it. They can and do still remove your posts when they didn’t actually break any rules and there’s nothing you can do about it. There’s still only really 1 big community per topic, because having a dozen tiny communities that all repost the same things but only have a dozen different people commenting on each one just doesn’t work, which leads straight back to having centralized social media with centralized mods who control the narrative and bans.

The point of social media is to interact with people, and splitting up a topic over a dozen tiny barely used instances isn’t a better way of doing that than having one big centralized one. The only real benefit of decentralized social media is that it can’t just disappear because one company turned it off.

Reddit turned into a complete shitshow of power abusing mods, agendas being pushed, and circle jerk safe spaces for a particular political sides followers…but almost every Lemmy instance is the same, many significantly worse in terms of how authoritarian they are.

Then there’s the federation/defederation issue, where the instance you signed up to won’t allow you to access some other instances and their communities because the owners/admins don’t want you to, yet if you make another account on a different instance and don’t hide that you’re the same person as the other account, some mods will then ban you for “alt accounts” lol. Much like how reddit had no problem with alt accounts, but some mods and later admins did.

Most people don’t care about decentralization, they just want a place where everyone they disagree with is banned. That’s why the left LOVED twitter pre-musk buyout, and then hated it since. That’s why the right love truth social, cause there are no left people there. Now that reddit doesn’t allow just outright death threats and calls for violence against people they hate, the left who love it are now claiming it’s a “right leaning” platform and looking for other places.

Some of us just want a place with zero bans and where unless you break the law with your speech, zero censorship and moderation. Some of us believe that self moderation is all that’s needed - if you don’t like what someone is saying, just block them and move on. Don’t call for their opinion to be silenced and their access to be taken away.

I deleted all my posts and my account and they restored them all and then permanently banned me. They can recover anything they want to.

Why couldn’t they just leave it be? People can block anyone that they don’t want to see posts from. Is it really that important to have an army of people banning anyone who they disagree with?

What else do the admin team do other than ban people and remove posts and comments?

That a business has to comply with local laws to operate in a country? You need a source for that?

That they challenge them in court whenever they can? Sure:

https://x.com/globalaffairs/status/1920426409358455081

https://x.com/globalaffairs/status/1907963263419297893

https://x.com/globalaffairs/status/1920522981744238814

For what? That you need to follow the law?

You call me the concern troll when you’re in here literally being “concerned” that they’re really censoring just whatever musk wants them to, with zero evidence to support it. You’re the one trolling.

So you do have evidence? Where is it?

Yes they comply with the laws of the countries that they operate in. That’s part of doing business in a country. They challenge any government requested censorship in court whenever they can. No one else challenges them.

And they’d only be like $5k each. HDD prices have gone ridiculous. I’d just like 20TB drives to be reasonably priced. 10TB drives are twice the price they were 5 years ago.

Without the weights or promotion criterion.

Oh so you’ve seen the weights and promotion criterion and know what musk is changing and when? Cause if you don’t, you’re just spreading conspiracy theories.

Thanks for the rule breaking insult though.

Software developer with 20+ years of experience here, but go on, tell me all about how it’s hard :)

You’ve got zero evidence of that lol. Their algorithm is open source btw.

They specifically say they can not decrypt your messages.

Why does everyone in here think that E2E encryption is some insanely hard new thing? It’s been “solved” for years lol. It’s not hard to do.

You don’t just log in to their new chat with a 4 digit pass key lol. You need to be logged in to X, meaning password and (hopefully) 2FA would need to be “hacked” in order to even get to the 4 digit password.