I used to think Reddit users skewed too heavily in certain ways, and didn't make sense. One day, using some tool (removeddit, reveddit, etc), I noticed how many posts and comments were removed by moderators - things that went against the skew.
It's one of the reasons places like r/politics became such an echo chamber dumpster fire.
Totally agree with you but it's nowhere near how bad facebook is. At least on reddit, opinions aren't illegal or approved by how Zucc and team see fit.
Facebook is extremely ban happy and you can do absolutely nothing about it. On reddit, at the very least you can create your own sub or join subs where people won't ban you for whatever you have to say.
I didn't say it is the bastion of free speech but it's much better than whatever Facebook is.
2 reasons:
1. Reddit does not usually participate in censorship itself. It's extremely rare for reddit accounts to be banned on the whole or for users to be banned from creating communities for like minded people.
2. Reddit allows you to create your custom feed. You could sort by new, you could create your own community, you could post opinions only on your account and reddit would not care.
This is very different from how Facebook acts. The facebook algorithm is very biased, has checks for several trigger words and gradually profiles your political side and starts getting stricter as time passes.
In my last 1-3 years on Facebook, I was been banned for at least 6 times and no I'm not a political person. I was banned for either posting an image that facebook algorithm didn't approve of, opinion on tech that somebody else attacked me for or in general, not being the person facebook ideologically asked me to be.
> create your own sub or join subs where people won't ban you for whatever you have to say
Not exactly true. the_donald, all the numerous *InAction, some morbid, etc subs were all banned. Most of them because they didn't like what people were saying, regardless of what lies Reddit comes up with for the reason.
Yeah I'm not denying that in any capacity. I'm only speaking from personal experience. Getting banned on Facebook for opinions is extremely easy compared to Reddit.
Yes both are biased but as long as you're not a guy infuriating more than half the Reddit employees, you're not usually banned which is opposite to Facebook as it would ban you no matter if you're a new account or an old account or are even posting an opinion on your wall with no friends.
Trying telling someone to kill themselves on Reddit, any accounts tied to your IP will get banned. Sure, that was a mean thing for me to say, but it was towards a troll in Ukrainian threads early in the conflict where people were asking for help on how to evacuate. The troll was telling them to accept the bullets Russia had for them. They weren't banned.
>It's one of the reasons places like r/politics became such an echo chamber dumpster fire.
The day after election day 2016 in the US, it was actually possible to post non-leftist comments/articles in /r/politics. Basically, the mods and bot owners hadn't been given their new marching orders, and didn't know what to do.
I used to think Reddit users skewed too heavily in certain ways, and didn't make sense. One day, using some tool (removeddit, reveddit, etc), I noticed how many posts and comments were removed by moderators - things that went against the skew.
It's one of the reasons places like r/politics became such an echo chamber dumpster fire.
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