“Don’t be you” - Reddit supports community that protects and promotes intolerance: Robinhood
I was recently banned from the subreddit, r/Robinhood for making a comment about Robinhood's shady practices. I quoted their own rule, "Don't be you", calling them hypocrites, and received a 7 day ban from Reddit the following day.
How can we draw attention to Reddit supporting a subreddit whose very rules promote and protect intolerance and harassment?
A lot of Lemmy users are here because we left reddit. However, it's kind of an unspoken rule that we don't really talk about it. People would rather focus on making Lemmy good by talking about things other than Reddit. I am sorry you had a bad experience at Reddit. I did too. But say "Goosfraba" and move on with enjoying a Reddit-less life. Welcome to Lemmy!
Thanks for the welcome! People need to critically understand the implications here instead of blindly excusing it because of status quo.
Not discussing Reddit makes sense except when it comes to protecting others. I feel this is an important issue for the community to be aware of, because it is similar to the r/Conservative subreddit that eventually got shut down due to cultivating toxic rhetoric.
This “Don’t be you” rule allows the community to be a breeding ground for intolerance and hate towards vulnerable communities, and Reddit is not only allowing it, but supporting it through bans.
Oh, we understand plenty. The insanity of mods regarding the lack of transparency or consistency of upholding rules is why we branched out. The bots and API bullshit are we don’t go back.
Avoiding being a circlejerk of complaining about Reddit is why we mostly avoid the topic.
Kind of, yeah. If the forum in question is toxic (Twitter, Truth Social), then it's best to simply tell people to stay away from it.
The problem isn't with interacting with conservatives - that's actually very much encouraged. The issue is the silencing and pruning they will do to anyone who opposes their opinions.
It's just not worth the effort... The people who create echo chambers aren't going to listen to the few that get through the gate. Reddit is 100% an echo chamber at this point. It's not even just left or right... It's just kind of a place people like to echo and yell now.
The people of substance are largely gone. They are here now.
That particular community exists to promote a product, and the moderators apparently are interested in silencing dissent. The platform is bought & paid for, and you broke the rules. The reaction you experienced is not limited to a single website or political group, if that makes you feel any better.
Sounds like you are either giving half of the story, or you don't know what the paradox is, because the only excuse for being intolerant under the paradox of tolerance is to be intolerant to bigoted fascist racist oppressive intolerant assholes.