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lemmy.world

Reddit is becoming typically right wing where they allow people to discuss various topics as long as their answers don’t disagree with their political leanings

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lemm.ee

I don't think it's long before it dies off and goes the way of Facebook. It'll have users sure, but it will be long past producing any content worthwhile

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lemmy.world

Nah, they will keep the corpse alive and possibly even more thriving (at least to the shareholders) with bot accounts. It is quite clear that a shitload of AI bots are being tested out in various subs at the moment.

Edit: An example of such an AI bot.

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Where presumably it will be perfectly OK, putting the boot on the other foot so to speak, to discuss making Scotland part of England.

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lemmy.world

With all those banned keywords, is it possible to post anything at all anymore?

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Well actually you can say [removed for rule violation]

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lemmy.world

The r/AskBrits subreddit on Reddit has banned users from all “anti-British sentiment”.

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Askbrits 62k members.

Askuk 2milion members.

I got banned from the latter because of their stupid absolutely no politics rule. Lots of questions can't be answered without it being down to politics.

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Is this even „news” in the literal sense? The bigger subreddit seems to be r/AskUK, anyway, and they don’t have this petty rule (62 thousand vs. 2 million).

But yeah, really petty indeed.

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