I have never been an "online community first" person. The internet is how I stay in touch with people I met in real life. I'm not a "tweet comments at celebrities" guy. I was never funny enough to be the funniest person on Twitter. So when Twitter was accidentally purchased

It became the only reliable source of information I had. People posted links with a minimal amount of commentary, picking and choosing the best content from other social media networks. They’re not doing it to “build a brand” because that’s not a thing in the Fediverse. It’s too disjointed to be a place to build a newsletter subscription base.

  • auzy1@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 day ago

    The Australian Subreddits got overrun by extremist right wing people who tend to be 20x louder than anyone else, and exaggerate everything.

    One even reported me for being racist (successfully) despite the fact that the entire time I was fighting back against the racism

    Even worse, you now need to log in to even see it at all in a mobile browser. So f that

    • PhoenixDog@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 day ago

      I was perma banned for calling someone “A fucking piece of human garbage” as they openly and brazenly advocated for the death of trans people.

      I got banned, the person calling for Trans people to be killed did not.

      • auzy1@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        7 hours ago

        That’s unfortunately pretty standard.

        Whereas, on Facebook, nobody gets banned. I’ve literally reported people inciting violence towards others. However, it seems permitted by community standards these days

      • auzy1@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        22 hours ago

        Yeah. And they were apparently “never going to win in SA either”. Everyone was happy with that result. SA is happy they lost, and ON supporters were somehow happy with being absolute failures too 😂