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Corporate Censorship Bring You Here? (infosec.pub)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Pure curiosity:

If you left reddit or another corporate platform under the banner of not being censored by their views or beliefs, what was that?

Wait. Before we open this can of worms, I'm not at all curious about an in-depth explanation of unpopular views or opinions that are generally extremist or that most reasonable people consider extreme. More of:

I left reddit or some other because they censor...?
The lemmy community is more for me because?
I reasons my instance policies or moderators are better than the other platform is?
The other platform restricted opinions or views regarding...?

If you feel like sharing, just summarize the general idea, please no indoctrination speeches.

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[–] [email protected] 50 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Not censorship, but enshitification. Reddit has been steering in an anti-user direction for quite a while. Killing the 3rd party apps that made that site useable was the straw that broke the camel's back.

People who whine about being booted over "personal beliefs" tend to conveniently neglect to mention what those beliefs are. If you feel strongly that pineapple should absolutely NEVER go on pizza, then I'll disagree with you and leave it at that; if you get booted from a community over that opinion, yeah that's fucking crazy and indicative of a community that should be abandoned anyway. If you feel strongly about things like gay people should be killed or women should have restricted rights, then I'll disagree with you and report your ass for every comment that even hints at bigotry, cuz you're a horrible person and are absolutely not welcome here.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The not saying why they were banned is what inspired my question.

I was afraid those people would just come here, but the moderation based on instance and community seems to be working so far. I'm curious how's that's going to scale.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I’m curious how’s that’s going to scale.

The conversations about Threads has me nervous about that bit. If "because it's fucking Meta!" isn't reason enough to defederate with them by default, we're looking at getting hit with a tsunami of content that will be impossible to moderate. Guess we'll see.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

The profile Blocklists could start growing, that's for sure 😀