Shadowbanning Is Big Tech’s Big Problem

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[–]Insider 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

If you're just posting toxic shit, then it's kinda understandable. Normal ppl are gonna join in on the downvoting.

If you're posting political stuff, you're gonna be silenced if your narratives oppose mainstream brainwashing. On conservative/Trump subreddits, you get silenced as well for the wrong narratives since they want to control pro-Republican speech and draw less attention to government corruption beyond the old establishment heads.

[–]Evola 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I've always mixed it up experimenting with different levels of tone and seriousness and basically if you tell the truth on anything the bans come your way eventually.

The trick to getting attention is to write as short a post as possible. One line at best.

[–]Dragonerne 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

The trick to getting attention is to write as short a post as possible. One line at best.

Yes, because its easier for bots to reply to.

[–]Evola 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Actually you might be correct that making it easier for the bots to post means that the amount of real humans must be much smaller on that damned site so it always makes me wonder how to deprogram the poor souls trapped in that nebulous.