It seems the 50501 movement is facing some predictable problems on commercial platforms.
On Reddit, the 50501 subreddit has temporarily shut down over abuse. This comes after reports from users that the community is “obviously being astroturfed”. No word as to when it will be back online.
It seems things are not much better over at Facebook, where there is apparently frequent calls to stop protesting this and that, with a Reddit user commenting that the group “feels like it’s imploding”.
This is hardly surprising given how commercial social media has repeatedly shown itself to be easily manipulated, but it’s still fascinating that it’s bad enough to shut down the whole Reddit community. Although we are certainly in a better place over here we are not immune: Make sure to be vigilant and to report suspicious activity.
If anyone is on Facebook, maybe now is a good time to give people there a few pointers towards Lemmy/PieFed.
Your experience will depend on the instance you’re on and the concept can be a challenge to explain to reddit refugees.
I’m very careful how much I support violence on .world for example because they take a “both sides are the same” approach to discourse (aside: they seem to be doing better but I’m not holding my breath).
Your instance (.zip) seems to be better than most.
Shitjust works scrapes every comment on every instance and bans people without notice for anything they don’t like so there’s that to keep in mind too apparently
Is that a big problem? I mean I get calling for genocide of people or something being ban worthy but if saying it’s morally correct to punch a nazi is a problem…