What the fuck is wrong with the internet these days? It’s a slap in the face to people like me.
Nothing is wrong with the Internet as such. You were talking about Reddit behaving like Reddit.
The word suicide is bad for marketing. You’re upsetting all the LLMs by feeding it into their datasets
It’s also really bad for political optics.
It’s as bad as or worse than (according to the people treating it as a political issue) low birth rates. (From a human perspective it’s much worse).
So if you can suppress discussion of it, you don’t have to talk about solving the “problem” as frequently, you can downplay it, and you can shift blame to nebulous, faceless things like “social media” or “bullying” (both of which are real things and real concerns, but not things most places are willing to earnestly address politically, so in practically they function as a fits-all “evil” that allows redirection from the real problem, which includes things like lack of agency and security.)
If the U.S., for example, had a true grasp on the scope of this issue across all age groups, I think our political landscape would look a lot different. Despite being an issue across all age groups, each age group tends to stratify their discourse to be primarily amongst themselves, so online silencing becomes a ridiculously powerful tool in downplaying the issue, because there’s already a semi-natural cultural isolation in place for discourse in general.
We’ve seen the effectiveness of this silencing tactic when it comes to avoiding discussion of the problem for decades in one particular subset of humanity who, historically speaking, frequently seems to have regular horrible tragic mishaps while “cleaning their guns”.
Same shit happens on YouTube when commenting, so annoying
Reddit just let roar his bots around to keep his contents in the confine of the politically
correctconvenient. Maybe having too many users is the issue. Maybe is just enshittification.I tried to post on Reddit
That was your first mistake.
And yeah, the internet is fucked. It was never designed to be a capitalist system. With everything being paywalled, it is going to continue divide people that have money and those who don’t. Among it’s many other issues…
Reddit has gone off the rails in a big way since the IPO. The bots they’ve got are terribly trained and are silencing amd banning people at the drop of a hat, it seems. Not sure what’s up with it. What you can do there, is post here about your experiences then make a new reddit account and make a post there and say you wanted to tell of your experiences but were silenced and oh, BTW, your story can be found on lemmy, in the (x) community and it’s titled “my story” (or whatever you name it) I would hesitate to add a direct link because the bots on Reddit may just delete the whole thing. Best to start fresh on Lemmy. Good luck and stay strong, there’s plenty of folks here that will always listen.
yeah reddit is shit. welcome to the fediverse
The only effective way to get around it is using language it isn’t smart enough to flag. But then you end up being censored by other people’s lack of reading skills
