Edit: Oops, it is /r/Tennessee, not /r/ProgressiveHQ

  • EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com
    3·
    20 days ago

    No outside political agitators (This is a broad one, but if we look at your post history and all you do is spam geographical subs stirring the political cauldron we will remove your post and ban you from this sub)

    The lesson on Reddit (if you still use that platform) is to hide your history. I’m guessing they used this rule for the ban. Bans from subs should exclusively be for content posted on that sub. If something is bad enough to warrant a sitewide ban, that is another matter.

    Anyhow, there are is another post about the election: https://old.reddit.com/r/Tennessee/comments/1p36q6s/millions_pour_into_tennessee_special_election/

    • Saledovil@sh.itjust.works
      2·
      20 days ago

      This raises the question: Is there somebody else on that sub posting about the special election? There should be enough Tennesseans that at least one of them should post there.

  • defunct_punk@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    21 days ago

    Tennessean here who tried to organize on my state/city subreddits. Can confirm this kind of partisan censorship is not new.

    A while ago I made a innocuous enough post on my city’s sub about a “Release the Epstein Files” billboard that went up and was paid for by our local Mobilize chapter. Within an hour it was the most upvoted post of the past month. Within 2, it was removed without reason and I was blocked and banned permantly

    • RustyShackleford@piefed.socialEnglish
      1·
      21 days ago

      That’s Reddit, I was banned from a Pokemon Go subreddit for being against Niantic forcibly leaving their sandbox environment on iOS.

      • LOGIC💣@lemmy.world
        1·
        21 days ago

        We need to be careful on Lemmy. Only the fact that the moderators and admins have goodwill are keeping Lemmy from becoming like Reddit. If Lemmy gets big and starts attracting people who want to pay to take over communities, that will stretch the moderator goodwill to the limits.

  • RunawayFixer@lemmy.world
    2·
    20 days ago

    I’ve checked the Tennessee subreddit and it doesn’t seem very active. The first post is 17h old and about the special election. The news article that was posted, is not positive for the republican party. The reddit comments are overwhelmingly against Van Epps. The post itself was posted by a mod. https://old.reddit.com/r/Tennessee/comments/1pajj2w/tennessee_congressional_race_becomes_unlikely/

    This doesn’t look like a rightwing echo chamber to me. Maybe the outsider that was calling for action, was removed because they take their rule about removing agitators seriously. Imo there may still be a problem of too strict modding, because of how inactive the subreddit looks.

  • jaybone@lemmy.zipEnglish
    1·
    21 days ago

    Wow. Just fucking wow.

    Does Facebook and X do similar types of censoring when it comes to the Republican agenda?

    Or is it somehow easier to install them as mods on Reddit subs, making it appear to be more “grass roots” without blaming the platform itself for censorship and bias?

    I guess of fb you have “groups” (as opposed to subs) where you could install similar “mods.”

    • Tilgare@lemmy.world
      0·
      21 days ago

      I would expect Twitter to be a huge conservative circle jerk, but it really is not. I think the fighting between the two sides is good for business. I also would expect TikTok to do so as well, and maybe it will once Ellison takes over, but so far that’s the best boots on the ground source for seeing real events happening in real time, even if it conflicts with whatever bullshit narrative is spun out of the event.

      • jaybone@lemmy.zipEnglish
        0·
        20 days ago

        Is Oracle really going to host TikTok? That’s been a rumor for like two years now. Even if they do host it on their servers, what kind of administrative or moderation control are they expected to have?

        • Tilgare@lemmy.world
          1·
          20 days ago

          I don’t know about hosting - but the deal was being finalized a little over a month ago and it was reported that Oracle would manage the security and algorithm after the purchase of TikTok US. Or at least, they will be licensing the algorithm if they won’t own it. The new development I was unaware of is that it won’t just be Larry Ellison, but also Rupert Murdoch and Michael Dell. We truly live in hell.

    • daannii@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      20 days ago

      They got rid of all of us mods who didn’t bow and kiss the ring and the star.

      Now all that’s left is the worst of the mods.

    • Credibly_Human@lemmy.world
      1·
      20 days ago

      Lets be clear though, reddit is only worse than lemmy because it is centralized by one group of douchebags.

      Lemmy has plenty of shitty moderation too, and arguably is worse at dealing with it within any given instance due to the lack of proper mod tools, the way posts that are deleted remove entire comment sections from being accessible, the lack of any appeals system and I’m sure a few other things I don’t remember off the top of my head.

      Its a people problem, and its a style of organization problem with this style of forum.

      • EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com
        2·
        20 days ago

        reddit is only worse than lemmy because it is centralized by one group of douchebags

        That’s a really big distinguishing factor though. When a group gets “too big to fail,” it becomes a problem by giving said group too much control. Look at the genocide apologist mods on /r/worldnews .

        The de-centralization / fragmentation of Lemmy is an important check against bad moderation.

        • Credibly_Human@lemmy.world
          1·
          20 days ago

          You absolutely bring up good points yes, but at the same time, I don’t think its a check, so much as a mild mitigation. Even on the lemmy verse there are still mega subs that take on the most activity and gain similar types of “too big to fail” critical user bases.

          The core problem, is that when a group gains disproportionate control over what users can see, they can push their views/twist arms, and that ultimately isn’t solved here.