I once posted to a collapse/mental health subreddit shortly before the Reddit API changes. I was dealing with a lot of stuff personally on top of helping a friend deal with a former friend/coworker who was being a total creep towards her. I needed to vent and was sharing my experiences on that subreddit.
Half of the comments were a mix of support, thankfulness for the actions I had taken or thankfulness of simply acknowledging what women go through.
The other half… I was being called names and was accused of spreading hate speech. The moderator, a woman, spoke up and every angry commenter piled on to her since she was a woman.
Over 200 up votes and over 100 down votes in a 24 hour period. The moderator deleted my post and messaged me directly to apologize. She told me I broke no Reddit rules or subreddit rules but she feared her subreddit would be taken down by all the threats about spreading hate speech. I had no issue with her decision, I didn’t want her hard work to be taken away and I already had my chance to vent.
So my last post and interaction on reddit was removed due to hate speech for acknowledging women and their experiences. Wild.
Leaving reddit was pretty fucking easy after that.
I had been on reddit since the Digg exodus. My last Reddit account was 6 years old with less than 50 comments total. I guess because I curated my own list of subreddits where I lurked that I was quite insulated from that type of behaviour.
It was quite the shock to me when I got such a hostile reaction. It shouldn’t have been such a surprise, the signs were always there. I was there the entire time. Experiencing that post and reaction really grounded me to the reality of who used Reddit and why other people had such a negative view of Reddit users.
Yep reddit can get really horrible sometimes. It’s just astonishing I’ll bet they’d never speak to anyone IRL like that! What was the digg exodus about? I wasn’t on reddit back then
Digg and the mass exodus happened a long time ago so I could be wrong at parts. The very simple story is that Digg stopped allowing most people to submit links or something like that. I think they wanted to curate their own links instead of user submitted content.
Since Digg took away what made it popular, most people migrated to Reddit which at the time was more tech/developer focused.
Reddit filled the gap quite well and was more proactive about freedom of expression and knowledge. That slowly faded as time went on and it’s userbase grew. Throw in a few controversies and we have the Reddit of today.
That’s one of the reasons why leaving for Lemmy was so easy. I have seen it happen before. I’m already one foot out the door with Lemmy. PieFed has been making amazing progress and I know there’s interest and progress in making a migration tool for Lemmy communities/instances to switch over.
I once posted to a collapse/mental health subreddit shortly before the Reddit API changes. I was dealing with a lot of stuff personally on top of helping a friend deal with a former friend/coworker who was being a total creep towards her. I needed to vent and was sharing my experiences on that subreddit.
Half of the comments were a mix of support, thankfulness for the actions I had taken or thankfulness of simply acknowledging what women go through.
The other half… I was being called names and was accused of spreading hate speech. The moderator, a woman, spoke up and every angry commenter piled on to her since she was a woman.
Over 200 up votes and over 100 down votes in a 24 hour period. The moderator deleted my post and messaged me directly to apologize. She told me I broke no Reddit rules or subreddit rules but she feared her subreddit would be taken down by all the threats about spreading hate speech. I had no issue with her decision, I didn’t want her hard work to be taken away and I already had my chance to vent.
So my last post and interaction on reddit was removed due to hate speech for acknowledging women and their experiences. Wild.
Leaving reddit was pretty fucking easy after that.
Yep! Manosphere types love to see themselves as oppressed, and hate women being acknowledged as victims
I had been on reddit since the Digg exodus. My last Reddit account was 6 years old with less than 50 comments total. I guess because I curated my own list of subreddits where I lurked that I was quite insulated from that type of behaviour.
It was quite the shock to me when I got such a hostile reaction. It shouldn’t have been such a surprise, the signs were always there. I was there the entire time. Experiencing that post and reaction really grounded me to the reality of who used Reddit and why other people had such a negative view of Reddit users.
Yep reddit can get really horrible sometimes. It’s just astonishing I’ll bet they’d never speak to anyone IRL like that! What was the digg exodus about? I wasn’t on reddit back then
Digg and the mass exodus happened a long time ago so I could be wrong at parts. The very simple story is that Digg stopped allowing most people to submit links or something like that. I think they wanted to curate their own links instead of user submitted content.
Since Digg took away what made it popular, most people migrated to Reddit which at the time was more tech/developer focused.
Reddit filled the gap quite well and was more proactive about freedom of expression and knowledge. That slowly faded as time went on and it’s userbase grew. Throw in a few controversies and we have the Reddit of today.
That’s one of the reasons why leaving for Lemmy was so easy. I have seen it happen before. I’m already one foot out the door with Lemmy. PieFed has been making amazing progress and I know there’s interest and progress in making a migration tool for Lemmy communities/instances to switch over.
Yep history has a habit of repeating itself