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  • How many are bots?

    Its like facebook. Engagement is up, audience is increased, but, its likely by a small number of people. I started noticing that in the Aussie subs, that every week, near the weekend (right before night), there were obvious lobbyist posts, which suddenly shot up (stuff like pro guns, pro- one nation etc). At this point, our local racism party was clearly doing heavy lobbying on the platform (despite losing 30 years of elections, based on reddit, you’d think they were #1).

    Like facebook, a lot of people are switching off now, and trying to find alternatives.

    Moderation has also gotten really bad recently. I had an account for 14+ years, never got banned. Made a new account, and within a few months, I got a temp ban for apparently being racist (despite the fact, I spent a lot of time arguing AGAINST racism).

    On facebook in fact, on the heatpump posts, I actually noticed 1 or 2 names pop up on almost all the adverts saying they were an engineer, and that heatpumps don’t work, etc (with bad info). Reddit allows infinite accounts, and no doubt, it is not much better there




  • This is particularly an issue here in Australia.

    Our most vocal racist community is our Truckie community. They blame everyone for everything except themselves. They even argue that normal drivers shouldn’t pull over for sleep and that it’s killing Truckies (less spots for them to stop). It’s always about them…

    And they always love to emphasise how important and irresplacable they are, despite the fact it’s one of Australia’s lowest skilled jobs.

    When fuel prices went up, many of them were demanding they strike and block all the roads because many signed bad/risky contracts they didn’t want to blame themselves for

    Not all of them, but the problem is so bad a newspaper even recently published how toxic they were



  • 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






  • 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









  • auzy1@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.worldMeta Is Dying. It’s About Time.
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    3 days ago

    Problem is, it’s been overrun by rage bait for clicks and vocal extremists.

    It’s weird watching people think their opinion is popular because a handful of people are shouting it everywhere on Facebook.

    It’s no longer fun, and there is no way to force only posts by people you know. So all the racist garbage gets lots of engagement and is also added to your feed