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Oligarchs control the network for their benefit. Free and open souce alternatives are the only option.
My wife just checked. Its now showing some pretty heinous things on the demo crat side…I dont think prior to the election that would have been tolerated. They definitely changed the “algorithm”.
Yeah the unspecified “issue” is probably that the blocklist was not a shadow ban but blatantly obvious. They probably only unblocked direct searches for these keywords. Wanna bet posts containing any of the listed keywords are still either removed from all other feeds or at least deranked in the great algoritm?
Roughly a week ago Insta started hitting me hard with right-wing memes and creationist bullshit.
YouTube is now showing nothing but (tr)ump stuff…I have not looked at dump stuff on YouTube. It’s all positive on him too.
Free speech my ass.
Thankfully the fediverse is tolerant of people with descenting opinions.
the fediverse is tolerant
LOL no, it isn’t.
Hahaha, the Fediverse has very little tolerance for “wrong” opinions. As if opinions can even be wrong
Also, the obligatory: *dissenting (sorry)
In my opinion, you’re a worthless blight on humanity we’re better off without.
But that can’t be wrong, can it? It’s an opinion, and my right to it is also the same thing as a right to be correct.
I’m glad everyone is missing my irony lol.
Also fucking grammar nazi (apology accepted)
tolerant
Really? Try making a post supporting conservatism or attacking socialism and see how that goes for you. Most likely it’ll get down voted to oblivion, and in many communities mods will remove it. And it doesn’t really matter if it’s a high quality post either with tons of scholarly sources and whatnot.
The Fediverse is tolerant of leftists and progressives, and a bit less tolerant of libertarians. If there’s any hint of conservatism or centrism, the veneer of tolerance disappears.
I don’t know the solution here, but I think allowing users to choose their moderation is a piece of it.
It’s the paradox of intolerance.
Conservatives are generally intolerant nowadays, towards marginalized people.
It’s ok to be intolerant of intolerance.
I’m not talking about intolerant speech, like disparaging marginalized groups or something, I’m talking about even mundane policy. Try agreeing with Trump on something and you’ll get the same tired “Nazi bar” reaction.
For example, try agreeing with the pardon of Ross Ulbricht, who was given a life sentence with no possibility of parole for hosting a website that facilitated relatively safe drug trade. He was a first time offender, there’s no evidence that he actually sold anything illegal or did anything violent, and he acted on the philosophical idea that consenting, peaceful adults should be able to trade things freely (i.e. he wasn’t in a cartel or anything). But because he was pardoned by Trump, people jump to the conclusion that it must somehow be bad. If Biden (or Harris) did the exact same, it would get positive responses and people would likely assume it was somehow good. This has absolutely nothing to do with either side here, and if anything, it leans liberal/progressive, but because a conservative did it, it’s automatically bad (he only did it because he made a deal with libertarians to try to get their vote).
It’s the same kind of tribalist nonsense we see on the right.
And to be clear, this isn’t a “both sides, lol” argument, it’s commentary about tribalism in general. If something sounds sufficiently different from what we’re comfortable with, we reject it without further consideration. This is more extreme on the more popular instances (e.g. Lemmy world), which seem to be a lightning rod for this type of behavior, and my best argument is that people comfortable with group think flock to larger instances, whereas people interested in combating it flock to smaller instances.
They can start their own instance. Away from ours. No need to tolerate intolerance. We don’t need that shit here. Just because its open does not mean we want right wingers to wipe their shit on the walls. They can start their own instance in the fediverse and wipe shit on the walls there in their own little community. 🤷
I’m not talking about right wingers, I’m talking about anything that seems different from the majority opinion on a given community. It could have absolutely nothing to do with marginalized groups, if it challenges the leftist/progressive agenda in any way, it gets downvoted or moderated away.
Examples:
- Trump pardon of Ross Ulbricht (Silk Road guy) - this was a libertarian agenda item, and completely goes against the conservative “War on Drugs,” yet so many push back on it; if Biden did the same, people would likely approve of it (“that poor kid was treated unjustly”)
- try discussing any form of government waste (there’s plenty, not $2T like Musk claims, but probably a few billion)
- TikTok - people claimed it was anti-China fear mongering when Trump initially suggested we ban it, then supported the ban when Biden admin supported it, and now are against softening the ban now that Trump is in power (that’s some serious political whiplash)
This isn’t tolerance vs intolerance, it’s tribalism, and the Fediverse just has different sets of tribes vs mainstream social media.
You could always go over to the tanke side of Lemmy
I really should have added a /s lol. I have experienced what ur talking about first hand but then again I don’t fucking give 2 shits if I get downvotes.
I banned from the news communities so I made my own [email protected] with blackjack and AI summary hookers. And a moderation policy that’s chill AF allowing real discussion.
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“Instagram blocked searches related to a number of political hashtags, including #democrats, #democrat, #jan6th, #republicans and a number of other terms Tuesday.”
It’s not just democrat
It’s not just democrat
It was. Searching republican yielded results, searching democrat yielded a sensitive content warning and no results. They “fixed” it later.
Interesting. The screenshots shared with me by a friend:
Given the corporate media sane-washing and general kissing of the ring, I choose to believe what has been shared with me directly over the “actchually, it was an awkward gesture of exuberance” milquetoast media.
Especially when the list looks like this:
Hastags that have also apparently been blocked from user experiences. Will keep updating. Range is worldwide.
“#berniesanders”
“#queer”
“#obama”
“#voteblue” (#votered remains unaffected)
“#dnc” (#rnc remains unaffected)
“#fucktrump” (#fuckbiden remains unaffected)
“#democrat” (#republican remains unaffected)
“#kamala”
“#prochoice”
“#constitution”
“#reproductiverights”
“#jan6th”
“#insurrection”
"#14thamendment "
“#republicans” (with an s)
“#fascism”
“#liberal”
“#rightwing”
“#georgeconway”
“#domesticterrorist”
“#jacksmith”
“#drumpf”
“#johnoliver”
That is not a “glitch.”
Amazing. /s
The ban list seems a little bit incosistent, but is really obvious on where the bias goes. Not that Instagram were good ever.
Here, I took this just now: https://i.imgur.com/GoBOPwG.jpeg
Interesting posts being served up:
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“This isn’t a fight between republican and democrat. It’s between communism and freedom.”
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A map showing Republicans as an overwhelming majority.
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Photo about Democrats being more likely to call white people terrorists, while Republicans are more likely to call every other race terrorists.
They’re not in the majority, but not subtle enough to avoid worming their way into peoples opinions.
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Adding republicans to the title would get less clicks though.
Sadly, yes. It’s important to know your audience.
