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Apparently /r/democrats on Reddit is deleting any posts about Mamdani, and people are mad and unsubscribing because of it (quokk.au)

submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by PhilipTheBucket@quokk.au to c/politics@piefed.social

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It's so fucking weird. I'm accustomed enough to people on Lemmy SWEARING that they aren't allowed to talk about [thing which is only controversial to Fox News boomers] and "they" will delete it if you even try, that I assumed this was crap too, but it seems like it's true.

From the community rules:

R5: No posts about Democratic Socialists or Third Parties

No posts about Democratic socialists

Apparently these use this to delete Bernie stuff.

WTF, why would people subject themselves to this

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[-] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

It’s not the off topic or the inflammatory stuff I’m talking about, that stuff I think everyone can agree on.

The more I experience humanity the fewer I find of things "everyone can agree on".

I am saying that the model that Reddit and Lemmy enforce encourages people to create rules like “no democratic socialists” or “no electoralism” or “you can’t criticize Russia” that are widely seen by the populace as ridiculous and oppressive.

You'll never find me defending Reddit. I left it for many reasons and Lemmy is now my home. You give a few examples of rules you don't like (which I appreciate for context of understanding). However, one rule I'd have is "no white supremacists" and while I think that would be a pretty standard rule, audiences today are finding that objectionable, which is insane to me.

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