| I remember when Digg crashed and burned because they got caught censoring speech. Everyone moved over to Reddit because it was all about free speech. I would laugh hard in someone's face if someone told me reddit didn't censor to a huge degree. Mind you, I doubt this will ever be the case as there's very few humans on reddit anymore. About 4 months ago I was testing to see how many humans were actually on the site. I'd get >1,000 upvotes everyday, many comments but nobody was real. I don't know if reddit themselves do this to make the website look less dead than it is, or just other people's bots. Doesnt matter. I was in a subreddit that was autism related, the person didnt share their gender or anything to identify. I responded to them having an obgyn as if they were female. They got extremely mad at me for misgendering them. I got an official warning from reddit admins for hate targeting trans people. Couple weeks later, I as a trans person was talking about a trans issue and got a 7 day ban. Within hours I got unbanned on appeal. I absolutely did not break any rules or target anyone. After reviewing, the Reddit admin team found that the content wasn’t in violation of Reddit’s rules. As a result, the content has been restored and your ban or warning has been lifted. I haven't been back. Reddit is a complete joke. The gall as well for them to ask if I wanted to invest in their IPO at basically the same time as this because I was a big account. Facebook? They probably manage censorship best, less false positives, but their actual censorship is still censorship. So erm... not going to waste my time. HN? Worse than reddit. dont waste your time going to my profile to downvote all my posts. X? Only platform I know that doesnt have much censorship. But it's not without. I couldn't tell you how many automotive mechanics who say tra-anny and end up instantly suspended. Those mechanics probably didnt care about us trans people, now they hate us. They see us as censoring their speech. Not working as intended. It's an impossible task to censor without unintended consequences. Elon firing 90% of the staff and having the website work better was because censorship takes a ton of effort. Some words have multiple meanings. Sometimes the person meant to add a NOT or something but failed, their messaging being the opposite of their intention. I would say X is doing the best job overall. No other platform do you have Nick Fuentes revealing to all that he's a nazi rat. A feature you cant have when censorship is in place. Gab/Parler that's where nazi rats go. |
I think you misremember what happened. I was quite young (internet-time-spent wise) when it went down, but I seem to remember the mass-migration to reddit happened when digg re-designed their website (to version 4) and it ended up crashing a lot, tons of bugs and removed features people were actively using.