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Day 6 Behind the anger on the Reddit Canada site
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name me a Canadian subreddit that ISN'T run by mods that staunchly control the narrative. /r/Toronto is just as bad if not worse although leaning in the opposite direction and is one of the primary reasons why I decided to fully embrace lemmy.
the mods of /r/toronto are just so damn terrified of potentially stirring any kind of pot. Anything that is pro-palestine is quickly locked and you can't comment on it. pro israel is open for discussion. anything relating to homelessness in Toronto is also promptly locked. questions about Toronto? removed. countless photos of sunsets or rain or fog, yeah those can pass. Hell they even at one point curbed posting about any sort of crime that took place in the city.
If something doesn't paint the city in a positive light or doesn't fit the mods narrative it's removed and you're promptly banned.
Not just limited to Canadian subreddits, it's all local subreddits and basically all that are over 10k people. Niche hobby subreddits are basically all that's left that's still ok for actually discussion.
And quite honestly, Lemmy kinda sucks too mostly because the userbase isn't that large and politically leans significantly left of the average IRL (Reddit, other than some select (mostly American-based) subreddits also leans left of average, but not as far as Lemmy) so it's very much an echo chamber.
That is a non sequitur.
r/NiceVancouver.
25k+ users, we do practically zero moderation. Surprisingly it's pretty damn civil and great.
/r/waterloo was good and /r/kitchener was a fascist spawning ground.
as someone who grew up in Cambridge....yeah the kitchener subreddit doesn't surprise me. I've looked at it a few times and was like "yup, that's Kitchener" I mean hell if those fuckers were allowed to commit a purge on the homeless encampent across the street from the go station they'd jump on that without a moments hesitation.
Kitchener has always been a cesspool of hate even when I was a kid in the 80s/90s. The only, literally only, reason we'd ever drive to Kitchener was to go to fairvew mall, toys r' us, or futureshop.
It has more to do with the respective moderation teams than the respective cities, I think.
/r/toronto is a lot like /r/ontario that way, though /r/ontario it's a little more hit-and-miss, depending on if you hurt a right-winger's feelings that day. Normally it leans left, but if you say something even slightly risque (other than cheap jokes about Doug Ford) and someone gets their nose out of joint, it'll get you banned.
I managed to a few days ago, comparing Doug Ford to the protagonist from Denis Leary's song Asshole. That got me, in no short order, a Reddit Cares email (which I report, because those really are the lowest form of harassment) and a ban for a day alter when, I suppose, that same right winger caught flak for abusing Reddit Cares.
The time defore that was a suggestion that "things won't improve in Ontario until the rich are afraid for their bank accounts, or the lives". That got me another Reddit Cares message, which I complained about, and, yup, another ban.
My local sub (/r/Peterborough) is remarkably level-headed. I'll give it credit.
/r/Canada's a whole other level, though. Yikes.