I came here to escape Reddit and to say FREE LUIGI!!!
Just got banned! It was an honor!
Imo, this is proof of how scared the corpos are of letting him become a figurehead of the fight against them. I love it.
Nobody is asking the parasite’s opinion on this topic.
Luigi is an American hero and the corpo is the enemy of the American people.
You have to be a brain dead NPC not to see these self evident facts.
The system of insurance clearly raises prices to some euclidean point where its optimizing profits versus killing customers. How do you blame CEO instead of the government, who control the insurance company regulation, the hospitals, and the money printer?
If you’re expecting the good hearts of the average CEO to prevent harm to your society you’re a fewel.
I found an article here for anyone else looking for a source that’s not just a clickbait image.
This kind of thing has been a long time coming, it’s why I started looking into decentralized social media in the first place. It actually feels less dangerous today than it did before the plague of GPT bots that make everyone wary of whether they’re reading something written by a human or not.
I left facebook for diaspora in the early 2010s because I felt like an algorithm could influence my opinions too easily. If I see a bunch of my friends voicing one opinion, but all of my friends who voice the opposite opinion don’t make it onto my feed, that will influence my own opinions regardless of how mindful I try to be about that. I was kind of addicted and it took strength to delete my account.
I started looking for reddit alternatives a couple years later for similar reasons. I’m really glad lemmy has finally taken off but things had to get a lot worse for that to happen.
Don’t forget, you’re subject to the same content manipulation here. Mods of many communities are biased if not outright propagandists. The echo chamber is very real. It just isn’t as centralized due to the nature of the technology.
I actually don’t really care about “content manipulation” per se, I’m just trying to avoid astroturfing. Every online community has moderators. I’d prefer that the moderators are people, and people have beliefs and viewpoints that they might want to push.
If Jerry the mod from Minnesota is removing posts that don’t align with his beliefs I don’t give that the same weight as when it’s done by a multibillion dollar corporation whose belief is more profit. If fifty mods are influencing my beliefs in the exact same direction without coordinating with each other, maybe I was actually inclined to believe that in the first place. It’s coordination that makes it dangerous, and there really isn’t a return-on-investment for astroturfing a community of a few thousand users.
You could make an argument that this is a reason to be wary of admins of big instances like .world, but I’m skeptical even that has enough users yet for astroturfing to be worth investing in.
I actually think lemmy took off because the “content manipulation” the devs/admins were engaging in through the early years prevented it from becoming a toxic environment. Almost all the other alternative platforms were focused on minimal moderation and they became awful places as a result.
I’m here because Reddit has turned to shit. They post a rule about upvoting violence will get you banned, so upvoting a comment that says FREE LUIGI will get you banned but upvoting a video of someone getting stabbed to death or a human being turned into red paste will just be another day at the office. Let’s be real here, they only want to silence specific people without saying out loud who they want to silence.
I just migrated from Reddit today because a post showed a compilation of things that were removed or banned because of “violence”. It included a story about peaceful protestors at a anti Tesla rally were being arrested, a protest for women’s rights outside of blizzard, a post saying trump is trying to start war with Greenland…
They are using it as an excuse to make Reddit fascist, take down any anti-government-backed bullshit.
