I was posting some comments on Reddit, in the “Privacy” subreddit, about better privacy options than Android or iOS—like GrapheneOS. I just received a message from the bot deleting my posts that mentioned GrapheneOS or other privacy-friendly operating systems. I accept this, since I’m not the owner of the subreddit. But with all due respect, what’s the point of having a place to discuss privacy if comments recommending great privacy-focused OS alternatives get deleted? I don’t get it.
It seems like people in that community want privacy, but apparently not enough to have an open discussion about alternatives. Sure, some people might disagree—that’s normal in any discussion! Should we stop talking about the NSA because some people support what they do? I doubt anyone would suggest that.
Am I missing something here? Maybe I just don’t understand the reasoning.
That’s what happens when something grows too much, at some point moderation is impossible and rules start with one intention but turn into the absurd.
But how else will my baja get blasted properly
Bro I was just trying to raise my testosterone
Am I missing something here?
Yeah, it’s reddit, expect nonsense.
Nonsense on Reddit? Makes sense.
Just ignore Reddit. Pretend it doesn’t even exist. It’ll go the way of Digg soon enough.
here’s hoping
I have heard of drama involving Graphene OS. I just know there is some drama involving GrapheneOS, I dont know who did what or care who said what, maby its related to that?
“the GrapheneOS developers do not wish to use reddit as a platform to discuss their products”
No one is making them. But they can’t prohibit others from doing so. Also the mods don’t give a fuck. What an idiotic excuse.
I can’t remember any time in the last 2 years before I deleted my reddit account where a post I made didn’t get auto-moderated.
Reddit moment
Glad I deleted my account last week.
reddit = garbage , thats all this is
The only thing to post on reddit, is that Lemmy is better
I got perma-banned and modmail-muted for talking about the rule, not the OS itself. The moderators are a bunch of absolute fucks and don’t give a single shit either. I did not break the rule, but got perma-banned. Then got perma-banned from Reddit for “ban evasion” because I messaged the moderators about my wrongful subreddit ban. My appeal was denied. Fuck em.
They’re as crazy as Musk. My whole household got permabanned because we used the same device for our accounts, and one person was suspended for some reason. They then accused us all of ban evasion and permanently banned us all.
its such shit honestly.
I mean it’s reddit. Example: I used to get on there from time to time, I’m fairly involved in homelessness services. Almost every time someone gets on there asking for help with food and I send them a link to food kitchens, food banks and other actual social services they can use to get themselves back on their feet, it gets pulled with an explanation of something like “well, we were just hoping for general advice not anything practical” from whatever mod removes the comment. I have some opinions on that.
It’s less to do with your comments, more to do with the platform and the specific mods
Google is a Reddit partner now, so they probably don’t want discussion of anything that removes them from the loop, thus privacy is very limited to “privacy from everyone but Google” or whatever corporate blob is currently funding Reddit. This is why Reddit is dead to me, basically it is now all about profit and communities can only exist if they contribute to that goal.
Eh, I get the rule. On the surface, it seems stupid because the subject of rom options is pretty integral to privacy
However, discussion of roms tends to always devolve into what amounts to fanboyism at some point. You end up with a lot of “yeah, but” and “but they are/aren’t” that covers the same ground every single time, and users have to wade through the bullshit to get to anything useful.
It’s the same conversation every time, so you reach a point where it’s better to just outright ban rom/os so that other issues aren’t drowned by that.
It’s damned if you don’t damned if you do, there’s no good choice, so you make the choice that’s less hassle on average
Recently there was a discussion about an r/privacy mod, carrotcypher. they have been mod on that sub since before the reddit exodus but they are making very strange decisions, to put it lightly. maybe this is their work too
