I haven’t really used reddit for a few years and now made an account again, but over 50% of my commens get removed by mods even though they aren’t something extreme, they just were about random stuff about instruments and some other non-important stuff, also on worldnews. I try to make posts but they also get auto-removed randomly without any explanation while some don’t. Also I got instabanned on the h3h3 subreddit for idek what reason. Reddit doesn’t even tell or show you anymore when your comment gets deleted on your profile when you are logged in. I don’t want to sound like some right wing conspiracy theorists that spews hate speech and then complains about all their comments being deleted, I never posted any such type of comments. Is this just me or is this reddit in general? I deleted my account there again, very weird platform. I remember it was already kind of bad when I left reddit a few years back, but now it seems it got even worse
I’ve felt this before I left
over a year ago. A lot of my stuff was removed just for being not reactionary, not even just tankie shit.
I’m not sure if you remember, but when the chapo sub got banned, those of us with a history of posting there had our upvotes and downvotes removed. Like we’d upvote something, log-off, and the upvotes disappeared.
IMO, a lot is in play here. Reddit tends to ban overly hostile mods, and people with lots of free time (i.e. people with material resources) are gonna be mods. But there’s no reason that a huge social media company isn’t going to try to crack down on subversive thought. Anti left behaviour is as old as capitalism itself.
Zionists aren’t going to tolerate even the most civil conversation with the other side. You’re not wrong to be upset, but I’m not at all surprised.
I hate this idea of every comment and every post there having to be 100% aesthetically and morally correct, to only being able to question the status quo of subjects on the most surface level. It really feels like social media is training people to be ‘mentally stunted’, to self-censor everything and live in an imaginary dream world where every thought is percieved as the most perfect, morally superior, and everything that slightly deviates from that is wrong and needs to be removed.
I empathise. I’ve spend many hours stressing and feeling depressed with how unfair reddit and wikipedia are. I can’t stress enough, though, that we are living in a dictatorship of the bourgeoisie. Your boss and your landlord hold the power of death over you, and the political/ideological systems are controlled by that class. Sometimes we can pretend for a bit that we have some power, but as the contradictions in Western capitalism become bigger, we’ll be given less of a voice to criticise them, including social media.
I really do empathise. It’s shit. I’m guessing that I’m much much older than you. I want to say that you’ll see this trend almost everywhere, at work, in media, with family, at social settings, etc. It’s absolute dogshit and I’m sorry.