Needlessly censoring words like sex. It wasnβt necessary on Reddit and it certainly isnβt necessary now.
this post was submitted on 06 Jul 2023
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Censorship like that was introduced to make the platform appealing to advertisers. I'd say just don't give power over how to run the platform to advertisers.
I agree. It's absolutely absurd that would say something along the lines of "Fuck, I got r*ped, what do I do?"
I'm of the opinion that you shouldn't censor any words. If you feel the need to censor it, then just don't say it. If you want to discuss it, then be able to say it. You should be able to say something like "X called Y a nigger".
I find it absolutely mind blowing that people are generally accepting that as okay on most social media platforms.
I can only assume that people donβt understand why it was brought in on YouTube and TikTok in the first place because so many people do it when it isnβt remotely necessary. If you make your living posting on social media, then fair enough, I understand you need to fall inline with the rules of the platform. But why the hell would you self censor posts you donβt make money from? Utterly ridiculous.
All they know is that The Algorithm won't show their posts if they use those words. How anyone can understand that and not see how incredibly fucked up that is, though, I don't know.
If you can't even get yourself to write the word sex, the questions on askreddit were probably not the issue..
Reddit became too America focused. Most of the posts were about America or assumed everyone reading was American. It felt very exclusionary.
I think this will remain a problem on any platform that includes enough Americans. The general public in America just seems unaware of anything outside America.
I think this stems from their education system, what they (don't) broadcast on mass-media and how normal and even laudable they consider fanatical nationalism to be (did you know they require children to swear devotion to the nation state every day at school!?).
In any case, I don't think this is a problem that any platform that wants to include Americans can avoid.
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Outrage bait. Too much of reddit was stories and videos of people acting badly.
Anyone who comments "this", "holup", or "came here to say this" can go fuck themselves.
This
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A few examples include s*x questions on askreddit
Says sex questions on askreddit were a problem
Doesn't even write the word sex
Yeah, I don't think the sex questions were the problem, mate.
Making all these posts on Lemmy be about another site.
The community won't flourish if the only thing people are talking about is their social-media ex.
I think we need to give it some time. I was not there when Digg went bad but I'm assuming that in the early days of Reddit, there was a lot of discussion about Digg. Once Reddit reached a critical mass, posts about Digg died down.
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To make the ex metaphor. Talking shit about your ex is not productive but talking about what was wrong or didn't work can be very insightful. Entirely blocking your ex out of your mind is a pretty easy way to make the same mistakes again.
I can see why people think it's annoying but I think this is also a good thing. Talking about this helps people understand what they want to see in their communities or instances.
It's the currently trending topic for pretty much everyone here. It will die down by itself eventually as it becomes old news.
Censoring inoffensive words like sex.
Yes, thank you. Excessive prudishness and self censoring is always an indicator to me that a community is going a weird direction.
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TIFU -insert sex story that oddly sounds like a scene out of a fantasy here-
I'm a linux developer of 25+ years and I'm permanently banned from /r/linux because I dared criticize systemd.
My answer is therefore: Power-tripping mods. Where mods are required, ensure the community has the ability to oust them.
Upside-down text for comments/replies with even the vaguest connection to Australia. Also, the "everything in Australia will kill you" meme has been done to death...
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I don't get the issue with sex questions. If people enjoy reading them and answering them why should anyone stop them. If you don't like them, don't click the thread.
The word six is allowed. You dont need to self censor.
This.
I might be in the minority, but shitpost memes like "I'll draw a shitty picture every day until x happens" or "I'll do this based on Y upvotes", and the "here's a random hotdog/Gatorade bottle everyday". I know I can probably just block these kinds of posts, I just never got the appeal of it.
Dedication. In a world where not doing things is vastly easier than doing things, the fact that they would do anything is frankly, a marvel.
Some projects can be kind of interesting, most aren't though, and I can agree with the sentiment
This is 100% old-man energy, but I dipped back over to reddit after a week or so and man did I forget how many completely random acronyms get thrown around there... FW, TIL, ELI5, FWIW, IANAL...
Don't even get me started on ETA, which should mean "estimated time of arrival", but has instead been used to mean "edit to add", even though just putting EDIT means the same thing??
I see that kind of stuff a lot less here, and I'm assuming it's a mix of older audience and smaller user base, but so far it's been so much nicer actually understanding what everyone is saying here.
My favorite is "IAALBNYL" I AM A LAWYER, BUT NOT YOUR LAWYER lol
Older audience will beat you with LOL, ROTFLMAO, RTFM N00B and GTFO!
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