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I installed the official Reddit app and went on it to see what the old place was looking like now. My inbox was filled with spam. The "home feed" shows subs I never subscribed to. There are so many ads. Between the ads and the the extra subs in the feed, it's hard to just scroll. I also noted a lot of spam in some of the subs. Maybe they are subs with no mods? I'm not sure what's up with that.

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[–] michaelrose@lemmy.ml 175 points 1 year ago (6 children)

It does suck I'm presently suspended at the moment for abusing the report feature by reporting a Nazi supporting targeting Georgia grand jurors. Not only do they frequently not remove Nazis you can get suspended for reporting Nazis. I'm done with reddit for good. It's a cesspool like Twitter.

[–] Uranium3006@kbin.social 91 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Spez is a Nazi. Welcome to the resistance

[–] Jimmycrackcrack@lemmy.ml 20 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I hadn't heard of that idea as yet. He's not generally well liked, given his position and personal role and the enshittification process of Reddit and generally entitled attitude possessed of many similarly wealthy people. I mean put more simply he certainly seems to be a dick, but I hadn't heard he was in some way associated with Nazism. What did he do?

[–] Amaltheamannen@lemmy.ml 18 points 1 year ago

He is a Trump supporter at the very least.

[–] bigkix@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Of course he is not associated with nazism, the dude above is stupid af, throwing labels of nazism just for fun.

[–] Lev_Astov@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Sir, this is the Internet and Godwin's rule is law.

[–] mayo@lemmy.today 2 points 1 year ago

He's not a nazi they're just throwing shade

[–] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I mean, reddit kept t_d around for years after they helped organize a nazi rally.

[–] Jimmycrackcrack@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That sounds much more like corporate interests and a related lack of will to get embroiled in moderation than evidence of ideological preference.

The t_d folks liked to go to Reddit to organise their nazi rallies and that basically just meant more traffic for Reddit which on a crude level is generally good from Reddit's perspective. It can be bad when it scares advertisers or when it drives away a larger amount of traffic from people put off by an apparently Nazi bent to the website they came to for killing time, compared to what they gained from a small group of freaks.

It's one subcommunity of a very large forum website that from afar just looks like another, additional contingent of users. If they start to hear some grumblings about it being a bit fucked up to allow this kind of community they could be tempted to intervene but that would mean taking active moderation steps which companies like Reddit have mostly not seen as their job or priority, especially Reddit which gets other people to do it for them for free, and then on top of that there's some degree of risk that doing so would damage the brand when it causes a stink and people start screaming censorship.

Eventually it becomes worth acting to get rid of something like this when enough stink is raised that news of the existence of the community and the types of discussions going on there goes mainstream and starts to spook advertisers and an actually large number of mainstream users.

This to me looks far more like a deeply held and passionate belief in the idea of "more money, and not less money" than for Nazism. I'm sure they'd just as soon embrace Nazism if the winds shifted and they thought on balance it'd work out more profitable to keep the right wing extremists happy than the rest of society, but at least right now it's pretty much not the case so they're forced to act despite a cynical reluctance wholly unrelated to ethos.

[–] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So they're not necessarily nazis, but they were willing to platform nazis because it made them money?

I'm not sure "collaborating with nazis for profit" is a moral win here.

[–] Jimmycrackcrack@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

It isn't. Just a different thing.

[–] HughJanus@lemmy.ml -5 points 1 year ago

LOL don't think about it too hard. Nazi = "people I don't like". AKA Godwin's law.

[–] crossfadedragon@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

spez. nazi. spazi.

[–] GreenMario@lemm.ee 32 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I feel the whole point of this and Twitters bullshit was to get the lefties off of the last major social media left so everything can be Fox book ahead of the elections.

You're doing God's work. Never stop reporting fascists wherever you see them.

[–] empireOfLove@lemmy.one 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I reported extremely obvious spam repost bots and also got a permaban for "abusing reports". Fuck em, they want rhe garbage content to overrun their site, they're gonna get it.

[–] TruTollTroll@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Dude the same thing happened to me when I got in an argument with a mod! only our was about Muslim crimes that happened and me saying they were bad.(the one where the teachers was accused of showing Muhammad but did no such thing and was killed) yeah i said thay was bad! . The mods, they said I was committing islamaphobia?! Then he reported me for harassment for arguing with him and boom.. banned... Fuck reddit a d the mods!!

Yeah its not going to be surprising if a few of their employees are nazis