tartaruga

Please say it ain't so. I know it's hard work, but hang in there. The trolling is on hyperdrive now so that people don't act at this critical moment. Reddit sold out because of Elon Musk, and there is a new need for Lemmy because of it. I would forgive you if you did ads or used AI to moderate. The point is, either we fight the trolls online from the safety of our homes or we will have to deal with them in real life. Trust me, you don't want that. These are real people with a sick agenda, they are 1000 times worse in the flesh. If you need help, PM me. I'm sure others will step up to the plate. Anyone here willing to help Lemmy, please say you will in the comments.

People have been asleep and okay with fascism as long as they have money in their pocket. Now, this breach with ethical behavior in the name of corporate America on the part of so many has gone full circle. In other words, this is what you get when you value money over people.

Agreed.

It started when Elon Musk intimidated Reddit into banning a subreddit. The sub "r/whitepeopletwitter" was deleted by a frightened Reddit CEO Steve Huffman because people there were posting the names and information of the young hackers Elon deployed in the Treasury Department. Those hackers stole Americans' personal, private data. they are traitors. The people in this subreddit were punished, because Musky had a big temper tantrum. Even though this sub was allowed to return to Reddit, activist content still gets banned under the guise of deterring violent threats. People have been banned for even merely upvoting pro-Luigi Mangione content on Reddit. It's censorship. I put up with it and I regret it now. Having to write without even remotely suggesting violence was hard. I'd slip up and get a temp ban. I was finally permabanned for using an old saying, "stomp Nazis," on a thread about people evicting a NeoNazi from a punk concert. I didn't really think about it, and it's what people used to say, it was not a legit threat of harm. Meanwhile, I had trolls chronically threatening to make liberals like me cry all the time. Sorry, but that IS a violent threat. I know these trolls are surely ugly enough to bring tears to my eyes, but normally tears fall because of physical pain. So I deleted my account and destroyed the Reddit app. That's one less fool to look at all the ads there, which keep getting more flashy and prevalent. It didn't feel good to be censored this way. Im glad for Lemmy. Reddit censorship sucks, I'm now in the habit of being hypervigilant for anything that could be construed as violent content, even when writing here. Article about Elon bullying Reddit

Yeah, I was permabanned from Reddit, just for saying, "stomp Nazis." After this, I deleted the app entirely. I had issues prior to this. Posts I had carefully written and spent time writing, were deleted for using the word "target," and the word, "shoot." Both posts had zilch to do with guns or violence. Saying, "oh, shoot" about a funny autocorrect deleted my post. All this censorship, but somehow right wing trolls were still getting away with being jerks to me?! Wtf! Now I think the app is the most heavily censored thing I have ever encountered. It's unusable, it's so censored. What am I supposed to do? Go back and say, "spank Nazis," instead? At a minimum, it would confuse the message and at worst, I'd get banned for saying that. No, I'm mad at Reddit & I'm never going back.

Because people give their power away to authorities, instead of taking control over their own lives. No one is going to rescue any of you. Only when we all accept this and move on, together, will we ever be free.