gsa32Reddit kills awards and coins
amazeReddit is just killing itself in general. I’ve been permanently banned from the place on multiple occasions for having I guess what the moderators and admins considered offensive/alternative opinions. I’m not conservative or anything, I’m definitely a liberal, but sometimes I have an opinion that goes a little against the status quo of the ultra liberal / progressive and that is when admins and mods throw a shit fit and don’t know how to handle it other than permanently banning users. I don’t think that Aaron Swartz ever intended Reddit to be a place where critical discussion would just be blanket banned.
ddittySorry you’ve had that experience, but I’m frankly not surprised. It seems like with the influx of young normies over the last few years Reddit comment threads lost the ability to be a place for nuanced discussion. So many top level comments just became users up-in-arms about tangential offenses, nitpicking other responder’s points (totally ignoring relevant counterpoints) just for the sake of being able to say “um actually,” or “technically,” it got so frustrating. Nothing like the left devouring itself lol.
I mean it’s something you see the Right doing too. Just take a short trip to 4chan and try to argue against any of the insane things being said there and while they can’t or won’t ban you or anything people will strictly either ignore you or tell you “I only read to XXX part and immediately discarded your opinion.”
Fact is the internet is no longer a place where people of all types can gather in one place and be honest with each other. It’s either a severe left wing echo chamber permabanning anyone slightly less left than themselves or a severe right wring echo chamber permabanning or ignoring anyone slightly less right than themselves and rarely does it seem to ever be a mix of the two or anything in between.
I’m hoping lemmy can allow for this to occur, but frankly I’m not too hopeful.
I hope so too but my comment was removed by a mod so idk…?