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Reddit Is Restricting Luigi Mangione Discourse—but It’s Even Weirder Than That

web.archive.org Reddit Is Restricting Luigi Mangione Discourse—but It’s Even Weirder Than That

The website is attacking the users that made it the front page of the internet.

Reddit @lemmy.world psychothumbs @lemmy.world 1d ago

web.archive.org /web/20250313203719/https://slate.com/technology/2025/03/reddit-elon-musk-luigi-mangione-censorship.html

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Hopefully we do none of that.
- You can always switch instances if your lemmy server implements policies you don’t like
  
  Yep, you can’t control Lemmy, because it’s free, open source, and decentralized.
  
  The only way to control it is to make its users go away, and whaddya know, we’re still growing!
  
  You can switch instances?
  
  You can't port your account but you can easily create a new account. I think that's what they meant by that.
  
  Ah, I see.
  
  However, you can export your subscriptions/blocks through your profile and import them to your new instance. No, you can't take your entire "identity" with you, but is that really so bad?
  
  Yep!
  
  But can you know that what you see through your instance is being manipulated?
  
  Wouldn't be that hard to archive and validate your posts and it's so easy on lemmy to leave a bad instance.
  
  easy on lemmy to leave a bad instance
  
  Too damn easy! That's also why I have a couple alts lying around in case I need to jump ship again.
  
  That... doesn't really answer the question. So it's relatively easy to leave, but how would you know that you needed to in the first place?
  
  If the voting of posts on an instance were being manipulated, or the visibility of certain sources or users, or if commercial influences were affecting administrative decisions or moderator behavior, how would you know?
  
  How do you discover that you are in a bubble? That the information being presented to you is intentionally skewed in order to project a narrative?
  
  How do you exit Plato's cave if you don't know that you are in it?
  
  I think there's a - what are sub reddits called here - that specifically calls out bad mod or other behavior since mod behavior is all publicly available.
- I thought it was really interesting seeing someone get banned from lemm.ee and they were able to still access other instances.
  
  They can just make a new account on another instance and come back anyway, it's like whack-a-mole.

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