Running Shortlist includes blocking hashtags for:

democrat (but not republican)

voteblue (but not votered)

presidentbiden (but not president harris)

kamala

liberal

liberals

leftist

leftists

barackobama (but not presidentobama)

obama (but not obamas)

berniesanders

votebiden (votekamala, votetrump works tho)

democracy (WOW)

presidentcarter

fuckputin

makeamericasmartagain

libertarian (for some reason)

igcensorship

factsoverfiction

fuckdemocrats

fuckrepublicans

bluewave (redwave still works, shocker)

politicalleft (blocked, but politicalright isn’t)

fascism

fascist

antifascism

prochoice

Note: some of these like #democrat I can search again.

  • morgunkorn@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    148·
    11 days ago

    Time to close all your accounts on anything owned by Meta, y’all. There is a Fediverse or privacy-oriented version of everything they do. And maybe you won’t find the same people there, but you certainly will find new ones that are definitely worth your time and attention. Ad-free. Nazi-bootlicker-free.

    edit: typo

    • Norin@lemmy.worldEnglish
      42·
      12 days ago

      Deleted my FB account just now.

      I’d had the thing since 2003. It was the last non-fedi social media I was holding onto (the only way to keep in touch with certain people, and all that.)

      • morgunkorn@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
        20·
        12 days ago

        All the power to you! We need to normalize keeping in touch with each other in a more personal way. They robbed writing thoughtful letters, postcards and greeting cards from us.

        • Norin@lemmy.worldEnglish
          17·
          11 days ago

          Now that you mention it, I might be a bit off in my math. It’s not my best subject.

          Thinking about it a little more, I probably made the account in 2006 or so.

    • misterdoctor@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      11 days ago

      Anyone have a recommendation for a cross platform fediverse app to replace FB Messenger specifically? I don’t use the FB site but I do use Messenger to stay in touch with my family back home and for a group chat with my wife and kids.

      Would specifically need macOS, Windows and iOS support.

    • But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      11 days ago

      I use messenger to keep contact with my mom, dad and siblings. If I delete it i literally can’t talk to them so it’s kinda necessary at this point

      • lurklurk@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        11 days ago

        Your parents and siblings wouldn’t answer you if you texted or called them?

        That’s pretty bleak

      • morgunkorn@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
        1·
        11 days ago

        Of course it can’t work right away for everyone. But it’s a conversation you can have, explain your concerns, why it would be better to move on to a different software.

        I used to talk to my family over WhatsApp, until they had a 24h outage and we switched to Signal, to never come back. But I still have dozens of other people there who won’t switch. At some point it’s a tradeoff you decide to make

  • hungryphrogEnglish
    61·
    11 days ago

    This is more than mildly infuriating. This is fascism in action.

  • casmael@lemm.eeEnglish
    48·
    11 days ago

    This should be front page news why is this not front page news what the fuck

    (Note that this statement is rhetorical)

      • spooky2092English
        18·
        11 days ago

        “In a hyper-partisan environment, even unintentional errors like this can escalate into accusations of partisanship,” he said.

        “If these issues are not resolved quickly they risk fuelling conspiracy theories and damaging Meta’s reputation.”

        While users who type “#Democrat” or “#Democrats” see no results, the hashtag “Republican” returns 3.3 million posts on the social media platform.

        Yeah, no. There are no ‘accusations of partisanship’, there’s straight up blatant partisanship and overt attempts at shaping the narrative and suppressing speech that Der Furher won’t like. There’s no speed short of not implementing it in the first place that would prevent conspiracies from propagating, especially with how hard Fuckerberg is dickriding trump.

        I deleted my Facebook account over a decade ago for good reason, and I’m hopeful that people will (but realistic that they won’t) get off of there. That shit hole needs to burn.

      • Tetsuo@jlai.luEnglish
        11·
        11 days ago

        Just an error that targets only one side of the political spectrum. Of course.

  • Gerudo@lemm.eeEnglish
    27·
    11 days ago

    They are testing the waters, seeing what they can get away with. It’s only day 2.

  • MoonlightFox@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    11 days ago

    I tried to find news articles that supported your claim that more than just democrats was blocked.

    I found a couple that said that democrats were blocked, but found it strange that the journalists did not try other obvious hashtags aswell.

    Does anyone know of any third party that can verify this?