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Re:Digg's v4 launch: an optimism born of necessity (2018) by kristiandupont on Tuesday June 06, 2023 @09:16AM (#36212194)
>every user is a racist transphobe nazi homophobe enemy.

Nobody on Reddit has called me any of those things.

Re:Digg's v4 launch: an optimism born of necessity (2018) by iopq on Tuesday June 06, 2023 @09:26AM (#36212360)
Me neither, they just banned me for posting on subs they didn't like
Re:Digg's v4 launch: an optimism born of necessity (2018) by shmel on Tuesday June 06, 2023 @01:13PM (#36216007)
I was banned from many subs just for being subbed to the "wrong" ones. I haven't even posted there.
Re:Digg's v4 launch: an optimism born of necessity (2018) by TheCaptain4815 on Tuesday June 06, 2023 @09:47AM (#36212686)
Go to any major subreddit when a political post goes up and go against the author in a calm and professional manor, then get back to us.

Personally, I'm working on a reddit bot to spam the site/pm users with the truth since they've forced censorship so hard. It's really effective so far in my early tests w/ LLAMA.

Re:Digg's v4 launch: an optimism born of necessity (2018) by malfist on Tuesday June 06, 2023 @10:25AM (#36213282)
> Personally, I'm working on a reddit bot to spam the site/pm users with the truth

I hope that is sarcasm. Consent is important, and spamming people with whatever pet theory you've decided is the "truth" is certainly not the actions of a moral person.

Re:Digg's v4 launch: an optimism born of necessity (2018) by TheCaptain4815 on Tuesday June 06, 2023 @11:04AM (#36213922)
Moral? What do you call the insane censorship these past few years then? This is war, a sitting US president was mass censored by the same ideology and I plan on fighting back.
Re:Digg's v4 launch: an optimism born of necessity (2018) by vore on Tuesday June 06, 2023 @12:31PM (#36215314)
Well, good luck with that. Surely this strategy will work great.
Re:Digg's v4 launch: an optimism born of necessity (2018) by myko on Tuesday June 06, 2023 @12:34PM (#36215383)
> This is war, a sitting US president was mass censored by the same ideology and I plan on fighting back

This never happened and you seem unwell

Re:Digg's v4 launch: an optimism born of necessity (2018) by TheCaptain4815 on Tuesday June 06, 2023 @12:53PM (#36215699)
How so? A sitting United States president was mass banned a few days apart by Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Reddit, Apple, etc. Hell, even Shopify, a Canadian company joined in the fun.
Re:Digg's v4 launch: an optimism born of necessity (2018) by dspillett on Tuesday June 06, 2023 @01:10PM (#36215968)
There is a difference in perspective here. Being a sitting president didn't excuse him from breaking their codes of conduct.

A person who broke their codes of conduct, who also happened to be a sitting president, was mass banned.

Re:Digg's v4 launch: an optimism born of necessity (2018) by myko on Tuesday June 06, 2023 @01:42PM (#36216424)
He had just attempted to usurp the presidency of the United States, this wasn't censorship run amok
Re:Digg's v4 launch: an optimism born of necessity (2018) by bigbillheck on Tuesday June 06, 2023 @03:19PM (#36217771)
Are you suggesting that important people should not be subject to the same rules as the rest of us?
Re:Digg's v4 launch: an optimism born of necessity (2018) by dspillett on Tuesday June 06, 2023 @01:03PM (#36215869)
> This is war,

That pretty much sums up most online forums these days.

Most of one group: This disagrees with my views. I'm going to boycott it / ridicule it / or ask it to go elsewhere / some/all of the above.

Most of another: This disagrees with my views. THIS IS WAR, I will destroy it!

A few sensible people on all sides try to have a more mature debate, but are drowned out by the cacophony, mostly from those declaring war.

Re:Digg's v4 launch: an optimism born of necessity (2018) by TheCaptain4815 on Tuesday June 06, 2023 @02:19PM (#36216962)
I think you're forgetting the mass censorship, which you so cutely describe as "ask it to go elsewhere".

If the original Reddit, facebook, or most other OG forums were introduced today, that "one group" would do everything in their powers to take it offline. The everyday members of that group also refuse to use that service until it conforms to their censorship needs.

Re:Digg's v4 launch: an optimism born of necessity (2018) by mynameisvlad on Tuesday June 06, 2023 @04:08PM (#36218442)
https://media.tenor.com/Qqhtb7KbrGcAAAAC/princess-bride-you-...

You need to learn what the word "censorship" means if you want to continue using it and have people take you seriously.

Re:Digg's v4 launch: an optimism born of necessity (2018) by jstarfish on Tuesday June 06, 2023 @01:09PM (#36215945)
That's called Righteousness.

Until you win hearts and minds, nobody's going to want to hear what you have to say. Strafing a community with truth bombs will not endear them to you, even if you're right.

Re:Digg's v4 launch: an optimism born of necessity (2018) by oh_sigh on Tuesday June 06, 2023 @09:54AM (#36212801)
I literally once posted on T_D back in 2016 something to the tune of "hey that's anti semitic and dumb" on a thread that was on the front page.

I guess later that meant that masstagger flagged me as a T_D poster, so about 10% of my future posts were responded to by someone telling me I was a racist piece of shit.

I would also get mod messages once a week from subs I never post in(like 2xc) saying I was banned from their sub for participating in hate subs.

And then later my account was perma banned for no good reason at all, I'm assuming it helped that I was tagged as a T_D poster.