It seems the 50501 movement is facing some predictable problems on commercial platforms.
On Reddit, the 50501 subreddit has temporarily shut down over abuse. This comes after reports from users that the community is “obviously being astroturfed”. No word as to when it will be back online.
It seems things are not much better over at Facebook, where there is apparently frequent calls to stop protesting this and that, with a Reddit user commenting that the group “feels like it’s imploding”.
This is hardly surprising given how commercial social media has repeatedly shown itself to be easily manipulated, but it’s still fascinating that it’s bad enough to shut down the whole Reddit community. Although we are certainly in a better place over here we are not immune: Make sure to be vigilant and to report suspicious activity.
If anyone is on Facebook, maybe now is a good time to give people there a few pointers towards Lemmy/PieFed.
I got served an unironically white nationalist 4chan post and apparently posting “kys” in a comment is, regardless of any context, justification to admin ban me from an entire instance/multiple communities with no notification.
I only found out bc I messaged a mod I recognized in a sub I was banned from and they said it wasn’t a mod action it was instance admins or something and there was nothing they could do
I get it but also like nobody forced you to trawl my comments in other instances and block me pre-emptively for not following your rules. I also should 100% be told about an action like this regardless of how flimsy their justification is.
I shouldn’t have to figure it out myself and then go find out how to contact the admins of an instance I’m not even on. All that effort just to argue a case about how they took my shitty comment out of context.
(All this on the instance that hosts the community about .ml mods unilaterally banning people for saying mean things they don’t like.)