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leakycap ◴[] No.44511088[source]
When I saw this news, my first thought was that she lasted about 1 year and 11 months longer than I expected after the first few weeks.

I know Twitter had many terrible aspects, but I do miss the world voice old Twitter provided for quotes that could be engaged with in an "everyone is here" kind of feeling that doesn't exist on any other platforms right now.

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kylebenzle ◴[] No.44512181[source]
Of course I hate what Elon has done to Twitter but you're feeling previously that everyone was there was an illusion brought on by massive propaganda and manipulation of the conversation. The same thing has happened to Reddit now, well it feels more inclusive and open it's actually an incredibly controlled enclosed system that only allows one specific viewpoint. Now of course to the people inside that bubble it feels like freedom but to everyone else it looks like a liberal echo chamber.

For example, when the actual owner of the at Bitcoin handle wasn't pushing the narrative that Jack Dorsey wanted they hijacked the moniker and gave it to a pro b Blockstream (THE COMPANY THAT CONTROLS THE BITCOIN CODE BASE) individual. For most people that support Bitcoin and blockstream it looks like a victory of free speech but in reality they're just controlling more and more of the speech and kicking out anyone from the conversation who disagrees.

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fkyoureadthedoc ◴[] No.44512292[source]
> liberal echo chamber

It skews one way, but there's definitely a large diversity in opinions on Reddit that are not hard to find. It's also transitioning into an India social media site, just from sheer population numbers.

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apwell23[dead post] ◴[] No.44512344[source]
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regularjack ◴[] No.44514161[source]
Your ban was deserved
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apwell23 ◴[] No.44514654[source]
why is that ? btw i am indian too. It was in /r/askindians
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arp242 ◴[] No.44516314[source]
The "perceived as" could be interpreted as a genuine "perhaps this is what they think?" or just as "empty language", in which case you're effectively saying "they're all scammers and mass migrating here to steal our jobs". I'll assume you meant the first, but with loads of flagged comments in the queue and many people who do genuinely mean that sort of thing, it's easy for moderators to misinterpret things.

I once called out a blatantly racist post and used "the n-word" while doing so. Admittedly not my finest moment, but I was fed up (the content was something along the lines of "I think this is called ethnic cleaning. Why don't you just admit they're all n----s to you?")

I got banned for my "racism". For calling out racism. The racist post that called for ethnic cleaning was left standing as that was lengthy and used polite language.

For the hasty moderator with tons of flagged comments: one is a wall of text and scans okay, the other used a bad word so could perhaps be racist. 537 more flagged comments in the queue. Ban. Next. It is what it is.

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apwell23 ◴[] No.44516333[source]
yea that makes sense. btw, i appealed the ban and they reviewed it again and ban stands.

Never went back to reddit again. even blocked it on /etc/hosts

I am not sure about why comment here was flagged and ppl saying "you deserve ban". So I guess everyone is assuming "empty language" .

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1. saagarjha ◴[] No.44516520[source]
Yes. If you don't want to be perceived that way, prefix your comment with clarification that it's not actually your opinion.
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2. apwell23 ◴[] No.44516625[source]
even if its not my opinion. Is it really something Reddit should permanently ban me for?
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3. saagarjha ◴[] No.44516685[source]
The point is that they did think it was your opinion.
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4. apwell23 ◴[] No.44527926{3}[source]
Thats just crazy to me though. meanwhile youtube allows this kind of stuff

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZlPv1Od6wk