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Re:The Return of Digg, a Star of an Earlier Internet Era by lovich on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @12:37PM (#43269682)
The moderation is hyper partisan on all sides. Not just the left.

I’ve had accounts banned along the the entire ecosystem of libertarians solely for the audacity of asserting that there were people who described themselves as socialist libertarians, and not declaring that there were five lights and that the philosophy did not exist.

The admins don’t care unless it hurts advertising dollars. Reddits leadership has been very consistent on this practice ever since the early days like with u/violentacrez and the jailbait subreddit

Re:The Return of Digg, a Star of an Earlier Internet Era by castlecrasher2 on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @12:53PM (#43269902)
>The moderation is hyper partisan on all sides. Not just the left.

It is absolutely just the left. The right-leaning spaces, even /r/conservative, do not ban for "wrongthink" unless it is accompanied with obvious contempt or hostility. Conversely, you'll be banned from a number of subreddits simply for posting in /r/conservative or other labeled-right-leaning subreddits.

Re:The Return of Digg, a Star of an Earlier Internet Era by hasbot on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @04:14PM (#43272520)
/r/conservative absolutely bans people that make too many anti-conservative comments.
Re:The Return of Digg, a Star of an Earlier Internet Era by nailer on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @11:48PM (#43276523)
Yes but r movies doesn’t.
Re:The Return of Digg, a Star of an Earlier Internet Era by outer_web on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @01:05PM (#43270068)
90% of /r/conservative's posts only allow flaired users (verified conservatives). There is an ongoing foodfight about verified users expressing neocon ideas like supporting Ukraine.

I don't have any recent information on pre-emptive bans, but years ago /r/conservative had a particular mod (I won't name) who did just that.

Re:The Return of Digg, a Star of an Earlier Internet Era by DrillShopper on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @02:30PM (#43271119)
Go on to Truth Social and post "f*ck Trump" and see how long until you're banned.

Do the same on Twitter (or call someone cisgender) and see how long until you're banned.

(Spoiler alert - I have done both and have been banned as a result)

Re:The Return of Digg, a Star of an Earlier Internet Era by nailer on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @02:58PM (#43271514)
I think the point is we don’t want Reddit to become hyper-partisan like truth or bluesky.
Re:The Return of Digg, a Star of an Earlier Internet Era by lovich on Thursday March 06, 2025 @02:44AM (#43277531)
Nah, I think the point is someone wants to make a obviously false statement out loud to push the Overton window.

If you(the general you, not you in particular /nailer)disagree with me, then please explain how any casual observation of the subreddit r/conservative lets someone state that the subreddit does not engage in censorship or banning for wrong think, and with the critical caveat that I will not accept the moderators of r/conservatives statement’s that they don’t engage in censorship as proof on its own

Re:The Return of Digg, a Star of an Earlier Internet Era by techpineapple on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @03:34PM (#43271956)
Ok, look liberals can be bad in building echo chambers, fine, but literally like 3 days ago on /r/conservative there was a post asking if it was ok to disagree with the mainstream of /r/conservative because so many conservative posts were getting removed. A casual reading of /r/conservative shows like 100s of deleted comments on every thread.

And don’t get me wrong, I’m sure they have a huge brigading problem, again it’s not limited to /r/conservative, but /r/conservative is a laughable example. /r/Republican and /r/Trump are better examples even.

Re:The Return of Digg, a Star of an Earlier Internet Era by Gunax on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @01:03PM (#43270040)
Well I am banned from /r/libertarian for wrong think. I didn't know about other subreddits though.
Re:The Return of Digg, a Star of an Earlier Internet Era by lovich on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @06:26PM (#43274218)
I literally gave you an example of being removed from right wing spaces for wrong think. They wanted me to pretend a group of people didn’t and never existed or I couldn’t participate. It’s not subtle at all either. How can you think it’s only the left?
Re:The Return of Digg, a Star of an Earlier Internet Era by immibis on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @07:38PM (#43274717)
This comment is incongruent with base reality. You get banned from /r/conservative for disagreeing with Donald Trump on anything and 90% of the time you can only comment if they've verified that you only commented conservatively in the past.