I don’t know if this is the right community, but I suppose it’s close enough.

You can’t even make posts like this on Reddit anymore, Reddit has become such a hog on the internet traffic it’s ridiculous. It wouldn’t be a problem if Reddit didn’t take such precious internet space.

They censor people, regular people who aren’t even doing anything too controversial. Reddit’s automated filters constantly remove people’s posts, only conformist content is allowed there, and so nothing of value remains. Just generic conformist post after another generic conformist post.

Why is this platform still popular is honestly just beyond me at this point. No really, can someone please, please explain to me why do people keep using this broken website anymore?

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[–] 11 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Honestly atp the censorship isn't even the worst of it. Go to Lemmy.ml, say anything bad against China and see how it goes. Many Lemmy communities are no better.

No the worst of reddit is the fact that it's a data-mining operation at this point, with age checks and a complete Mishandling of your user data (everything is indexed and easy to search even if you set your profile to private...)

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  • [–] 1 point 1 day ago (1 child)

    It's not a problem like it is on Reddit though because the admins/moderators on lemmy.ml can't censor the network, just the coms they moderate. Using instances and coms that have moderation policies you prefer will always be an option, there's no single authority.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 day ago

    You have a point, but in reality this isn't exactly what instances advertise, so especially users who aren't already in the loop are unaware of what they are not seeing. Even more so because defederation-heavy instances also treat discussions on the matter as off-topic or worse, so those users are actively prevented from making an informed decision.

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