I kept getting shadow banned constantly. My comments ending up with 1 view no up or down votes. For completely arbitrary reasons as well. And I got completely banned from a few communities by accidentally using extremist terminology (?).
And yes I don’t doubt they removed it for a reason, it makes it a much less friendly place. Like you’re putting down and directly affecting the other person rather than just disagreeing. It’s hard to explain.
This is my third account in the piefed/lemmy universe and the experience feels a lot like the years immediately after Digg imploded but before the incident with the first censorship revolt (I forget what that was even about). That’s when the first big change to the “Hot” algorithm was made that made it easier to moderate but also made the site more stale.
Thinking about what that website was like then vs now is more than a bit depressing actually. I knew a handful of the original reddit dev’s at a professional level after meeting them at a couple PyCon’s. Still have a couple of the Reddit stickers they would randomly hand out to people. I don’t think I ever met Aaron in person but I talked shop with him a lot about the python framework he had made. Bleh.
So this username is DevDave but hilariously there are about five (down from seven) different David’s fighting over this handle. It’s hilarious because as soon as one of us signs up with this handle to a new service, we send a friend invite to the others as a not to subtle “First!” with both middle fingers. Yes it does narrow things down from ~8 billion to five, but since we are all in tech and are interweaving its hard to know who is actually who and it creates an interesting level of chaos. Otherwise this my random bullshit account and I don’t type anything here I wouldn’t say out loud in public.
The others are more isolated/specific due to reasons.
That makes sense. I kind of just assume everyone can find out my identity if they try hard enough. So my infosec is as if I’m speaking to a stranger on a nearby train. They could probably follow me home but I don’t give them a reason to and I don’t say anything incriminating.
~20 years ago I saw someone doxed under a false accusation. Wasn’t about racism, sexism, or really anything equal to the amount of abuse this person and everyone around them received.
The thing is that a lot of people are stressed the fuck out and are aimlessly angry. The goal with managing what you show and tell the internet is to have enough time to run. That’s the best you can do.
The astonishing part is how they manage to both be overly heavy-handed on moderation and STILL keep floating a fuckton of racism and other bigotry to the top.
I kept getting shadow banned constantly. My comments ending up with 1 view no up or down votes. For completely arbitrary reasons as well. And I got completely banned from a few communities by accidentally using extremist terminology (?).
And yes I don’t doubt they removed it for a reason, it makes it a much less friendly place. Like you’re putting down and directly affecting the other person rather than just disagreeing. It’s hard to explain.
Same. Pretty sure it’s because I was using a VPN. Gave up on it a while ago; haven’t looked back.
This is my third account in the piefed/lemmy universe and the experience feels a lot like the years immediately after Digg imploded but before the incident with the first censorship revolt (I forget what that was even about). That’s when the first big change to the “Hot” algorithm was made that made it easier to moderate but also made the site more stale.
Thinking about what that website was like then vs now is more than a bit depressing actually. I knew a handful of the original reddit dev’s at a professional level after meeting them at a couple PyCon’s. Still have a couple of the Reddit stickers they would randomly hand out to people. I don’t think I ever met Aaron in person but I talked shop with him a lot about the python framework he had made. Bleh.
Out of curiosity, what’s the purpose of multiple accounts?
Identity management and security.
So this username is DevDave but hilariously there are about five (down from seven) different David’s fighting over this handle. It’s hilarious because as soon as one of us signs up with this handle to a new service, we send a friend invite to the others as a not to subtle “First!” with both middle fingers. Yes it does narrow things down from ~8 billion to five, but since we are all in tech and are interweaving its hard to know who is actually who and it creates an interesting level of chaos. Otherwise this my random bullshit account and I don’t type anything here I wouldn’t say out loud in public.
The others are more isolated/specific due to reasons.
That makes sense. I kind of just assume everyone can find out my identity if they try hard enough. So my infosec is as if I’m speaking to a stranger on a nearby train. They could probably follow me home but I don’t give them a reason to and I don’t say anything incriminating.
~20 years ago I saw someone doxed under a false accusation. Wasn’t about racism, sexism, or really anything equal to the amount of abuse this person and everyone around them received.
Another incident, I almost sat down next to these fuckwits but I am thankfully out of frame https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/03/how-dongle-jokes-got-two-people-fired-and-led-to-ddos-attacks/
The thing is that a lot of people are stressed the fuck out and are aimlessly angry. The goal with managing what you show and tell the internet is to have enough time to run. That’s the best you can do.
Some people are creeps and don’t need a reason.
The astonishing part is how they manage to both be overly heavy-handed on moderation and STILL keep floating a fuckton of racism and other bigotry to the top.
Their moderation is pro-racism.
The racists don’t block ads
That’s similar to how I learned about Reddit’s stance on punching Nazis.