What if I want to make an unpopular opinion on Luigi from the Super Mario Bros series?
Censorship disguised as moderation. This is exactly what killed reddit. You can't have a discussion over there without getting banned, it's just individual echo chambers who all censor and ban each other
Or maybe, its not actually an unpopular opinion!
Hate to break it to you but reddit isn't dead.
I still go on reddit. In a lot of ways it's a lot worse than it used to be. It's way more corporate. Huge portions of the site seem sanitized, often in obvious and eyeroll inducing ways. There's also a lot less content in general. The content that does exist is lower effort, and way more repetitive.
However in some ways it's genuinely better. The discourse is a lot less toxic than it used to be. A lot of genuine cruelty wrapped in virtue signaling that defined the site from 2018 to 2022 is either gone or greatly diminished. It's also slightly less of an echo chamber.
I think what happened is that after the mobile apocalypse, a lot of the power users left the platform. While these people contributed a lot to the site, they were also extremely toxic people with an even more warped worldview.
The mods are a reflection of this. They are more corporate, which leads to a lot of censorship like this. However it also means that scrolling is quite a bit more pleasant.
Overall I spend more time on Reddit than Lemmy. There's very little content here once you filter out all the outrage bait.
You may be on the wrong communities, i could waste a day here. I actually use reddit for ragebait (i just can't quit aitah)
Digg died. Reddit will also die eventually.
Or, hear me out, maybe people were tied of way too many posts in the community being about recent politics, so moderators took action on that?
It's not a good look to be broadly banning those words, but it seems to me like there's a reasonable and obvious expansion.
that's easily dissuaded by no re-posts or reddits algorithm burying those. The problem was more likely because they were popular and highly engaged so they had to step in. Fucking "spez" is in there and you still feel the need to play devil's advocate?
Usually when I'm tired of reading about a subject I just don't click on those threads, I don't censor people
Well thank gawd they're here to make sure the ruling oligarchs don't feel the slightest shred of the anxiety that us poors feel 24 hours a day.
Let them come, and also fuck reddit. You're banned for a comment that was deleted, you can't see what you said to determine how it violated the rules. You get one message for an appeal. Do you feel lucky? Well do you...punk!
I got banned for telling someone to crawl back in their hole because they said female genital mutilation was horrible but that circumcision was fine because it looks better.
Getting permabanned from reddit is the best thing that happened to me in 2024. I don't even know what for and I don't care.
Some of those are understandable to be banned from Unpopular Opinion because they're actually quite popular opinions. 🤷🏻♂️
"I believe Brian Thompson was actually a pretty cool guy"
DISCLAIMER: I in no way actually think this. This is just an example of one of those banned subjects being used correctly in that sub.
Reddit mods being power tripping cucks as usual.
That part is the exact same and worse here. Lemmy is not really decrentralized, it's just fractured. Each community still have just one "big one" by design.
Turns out hating on conservatists and praising ceo killers is too much of a popular opinion for that sub, is that what they want to say?
Can't talk about trump, but go ahead and talk about Biden as much as you want
Then they don't vote and NEVER figure out that they were manipulated into inaction, they were given that extra nudge to sit and stay home on Election Day.
Uigi-lay Angione-may
What did you say about my mother?
the neckbeard fat lards of the mods are the same here
Knowing the average redditor, they probably had like 6900 posts about Luigi (or every of those banned words) every hour for weeks.
I don't blame the mods for dealing that way with karma-addicted redditards.
What is "holiday" on this list for?
"Mario's brother"
"The Mansion Owner"
"Splattered Brain Thompson"
"CE Oh shit the consequences of my actions!"
“Wa-Waluigi”
Green Mario
"Gooigi"
"Green Man"
"The Italian"
"The Adjuster"
"L Man"
"LM"
"LLM"
And so on and so forth
Mr. L, aka "the Green Thunder".
Green Mario sure is scary.
Freedom of speech absolutists
Maybe because he is a popular opinion /s
Unpopular Opinion: Reddit admins are doing a great job and I'm ever so sad I don't visit anymore.
Now that's an unpopular opinion
Last time I visited it it was full of climate deniers and other alternative facts
Corporate gonna corporate
I don't see The Adjuster there 😏
leweegee
Oh boy, time to breakout the non-ASCII look-a-like characters! Lol
Luìgi Mangíone
Green Mario
Reddit unpopular opinion mods are bunch of cretins. They banned me for posting unpopular opinion 😂
r/unpopularopinion is for posting mostly popular opinions that some people nonetheless disagree with. Truly unpopular opinions, even well thought out ones, almost always get downvoted.
Because people are trained to downvote things that suck everywhere else on the Internet
What did you post?
What if it's about some other guy named Brian? So stupid.
There goes my beach boys roast post
Green Mario Big Eater
Damnit. I just joined this site to try and get away from Reddit mods who are power hungry.
It's a screenshot of Reddit not Lemmy.
But you are on .ml, which is one of the worst instances especially if you hate power hungry mods - also avoid .world.
I ditched .world because of their euro-centric attitude on free speech regarding, specifically, jury nullification. Which is, as I pointed out, the critical final tool for us citizens to try and legally change unjust laws and/or unjust applications of it. It's also older than the US, and the government hates it when anyone remembers it exists. To the point that lawyers are forbidden from mentioning it to juries in court. Because the ruling elite fear anything that gives the citizens the slightest shred of hope that we could upset their oppressive system. So duck them euros and their censorship bullshit.
The party of Freeze Peach has a lot of trouble dealing with people's opinions.
What Party?
Mario Party?
the uniparty
Love Reddit free speech
What about titty sprinkles
Hilarious this is posted on lemmy.world.
Why? And I'm not being facetious, I honestly don't know.
World mods and admins were VERY ban happy when the shooting first occurred. Even to the point they censored any discussion of jury nullification.
Lets be honest it's not like lemmy is any different, just on the other side of the fence. Probably even worse.
lemmy wasnt always like this. we got the worst of reddit coming in like they invented the federal universe.
federal universe.
Did you just make that up?
Uh ok
Consider a better instance.
made me giggle ngl
lol
Had me in the first half
no u
can't, they banned me for my winnie the pooh
Is this really so bad? I mean.. I get it. When you’re trying to moderate something with thousands of posts, and a ton start coming in that are low effort/bot posts saying things like “unpopular opinion: I support Luigi” or “unpopular opinion: I am glad Biden won’t be president” it makes sense. Those are just such constant topics with such a wide range of ideals. Whereas an unpopular opinion they might want to spur conversation would be “unpopular opinion: I don’t mind my socks being damp or wet” otherwise it’s just constant shitposts.
Plus, Reddit isn’t the (US) government. Your expectation of free speech should be null.
It's part of a larger trend of social media blackouts, this is bad because it lets the wealthy control our discource in the furtherance of their oligarchic aims.
Definitely agree with you on that.
Plus, Reddit isn’t the (US) government.
When your policy is so bad your only defense of it is "technically we didn't violate your civil rights", maybe reconsider it.
Your rights as a person and citizen don’t magically extend everywhere. Otherwise you turn into a sovereign citizen. This weird obsession on Lemmy with this idea you should be able to say whatever you want online anywhere is fucking stupid and weird. A website is like another business or home (or even a newspaper… which at times has also pulled ideas they don’t agree with). You’re showing up to it. If you don’t like the rules in one place, go to another (or read a different paper). Or make your own.
Also, I love the irony of me making an unpopular opinion comment on a post about unpopular opinion.
