I have never been an "online community first" person. The internet is how I stay in touch with people I met in real life. I'm not a "tweet comments at celebrities" guy. I was never funny enough to be the funniest person on Twitter. So when Twitter was accidentally purchased

It became the only reliable source of information I had. People posted links with a minimal amount of commentary, picking and choosing the best content from other social media networks. They’re not doing it to “build a brand” because that’s not a thing in the Fediverse. It’s too disjointed to be a place to build a newsletter subscription base.

  • auzy1@lemmy.worldEnglish
    31·
    1 day ago

    The Australian Subreddits got overrun by extremist right wing people who tend to be 20x louder than anyone else, and exaggerate everything.

    One even reported me for being racist (successfully) despite the fact that the entire time I was fighting back against the racism

    Even worse, you now need to log in to even see it at all in a mobile browser. So f that

    • PhoenixDog@lemmy.worldEnglish
      15·
      1 day ago

      I was perma banned for calling someone “A fucking piece of human garbage” as they openly and brazenly advocated for the death of trans people.

      I got banned, the person calling for Trans people to be killed did not.

      • auzy1@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        10 hours ago

        That’s unfortunately pretty standard.

        Whereas, on Facebook, nobody gets banned. I’ve literally reported people inciting violence towards others. However, it seems permitted by community standards these days

      • islandcoda42@lemmy.zipEnglish
        1·
        1 day ago

        Very similar experience for me. I said the only good Nazi was a dead Nazi. Permabanned. I don’t miss it at all

    • HrabiaVulpes@europe.pubEnglish
      9·
      1 day ago

      The Australian Subreddits got overrun by extremist right wing people who tend to be 20x louder than anyone else, and exaggerate everything.

      I don;'t think this is just Australian issue

      • auzy1@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        1 day ago

        Probably not. There used to be shitty subs like the Donald and fat people hate too.

      • auzy1@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 day ago

        Yeah. And they were apparently “never going to win in SA either”. Everyone was happy with that result. SA is happy they lost, and ON supporters were somehow happy with being absolute failures too 😂

      • auzy1@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        1 day ago

        If you’re not shadow banned

        I suspect they shadow banned me first for a few days, and probably pissed off a few racists who kept watching my account.

        I had an account for 10+ years before deleting it and creating a new one. My old account never even got banned from a subreddit once in all that time. And I had other accounts Before that, so I suspect I was targeted on the last account I bothered with