[Vent] Reddit is not very friendly to me or to disabled people, it feels
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Thanks. I mean, I was on LesbianActually and AITAH, subs like that. And I’m poly and they were all like “YTA for having another partner…” (I said I was poly) “…and cheating on your fiancée”
I’m poly, and poly acceptance on reddit is very very low in most places. It’s funny how that works. Homophobes are all “teh gay agenda, trying 2 convert us” and LGBTA+ is like “no, fuck off, we just want to live, thanks”. Poly feels the same way - I mention poly and people push back that it’s wrong, cheating, doesn’t work. Yeah, well, it doesn’t work for you if you’re not poly in the same way if you are straight, you don’t want to fuck your own gender.
I don’t know LesbianActually because I don’t hang out there for obvious reasons. AITAH doesn’t completely surprise me, it’s a mainstream sub. Lesbians are probably only marginally shunned, but poly? Shunned, I’m sure.
So basically, while I’m not blaming you… you didn’t know your audience was all. Probably better to seek advise in lesbian/poly friendly spaces. Again, don’t know lesbianactually, but I would expect r/lgbt to be a little more accepting, and perhaps /r/polyamory - I think that’s the subreddit, I don’t hang out there. (In part because while I am poly, I don’t practice currently and only ever did for a short period of time, so I hate reading about others’ happiness lol)
I’ve no clue what your submission was about, but I see enough pieces here to not be surprised it didn’t go well. I again don’t blame you. I think there’s spaces on lemmy where it also wouldn’t go well. Poly is a fringe thing to be and acceptance is somewhat low, which I think is a shame because I think if more people realized they were poly, the world would be a happier place as there’d be rather less cheating.
I’m sorry you got banged up over there.
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the van is in the river
The van is the river
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I hate to post about Reddit on a non-Reddit platform, but come on! Reddit is super overrated, like they delete and downvote every post and comment I make whereas no one does that here. One time, they told my friend who happens to be autistic, LGBT, and a fictionkin that she “might as well just kill herself”, though that got removed, thankfully, and they call me stupid and delete my post and talk about what a stupid question it is that no one can answer when I, who is autistic, ask a question on why someone acts a certain way or why society has to be a certain way. I’M AUTISTIC. I DON’T GET QUESTIONS THAT COME NATURALLY TO EVERYONE ELSE AND I ASK QUESTIONS THAT NO ONE THINKS OF. MY BRAIN WORKS DIFFERENTLY, MR. REDDITOR!!!
Yea Lemmy isn’t much better.
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I’m poly, and poly acceptance on reddit is very very low in most places. It’s funny how that works. Homophobes are all “teh gay agenda, trying 2 convert us” and LGBTA+ is like “no, fuck off, we just want to live, thanks”. Poly feels the same way - I mention poly and people push back that it’s wrong, cheating, doesn’t work. Yeah, well, it doesn’t work for you if you’re not poly in the same way if you are straight, you don’t want to fuck your own gender.
I don’t know LesbianActually because I don’t hang out there for obvious reasons. AITAH doesn’t completely surprise me, it’s a mainstream sub. Lesbians are probably only marginally shunned, but poly? Shunned, I’m sure.
So basically, while I’m not blaming you… you didn’t know your audience was all. Probably better to seek advise in lesbian/poly friendly spaces. Again, don’t know lesbianactually, but I would expect r/lgbt to be a little more accepting, and perhaps /r/polyamory - I think that’s the subreddit, I don’t hang out there. (In part because while I am poly, I don’t practice currently and only ever did for a short period of time, so I hate reading about others’ happiness lol)
I’ve no clue what your submission was about, but I see enough pieces here to not be surprised it didn’t go well. I again don’t blame you. I think there’s spaces on lemmy where it also wouldn’t go well. Poly is a fringe thing to be and acceptance is somewhat low, which I think is a shame because I think if more people realized they were poly, the world would be a happier place as there’d be rather less cheating.
I’m sorry you got banged up over there.
It’s ok, thank you so much
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I hate to post about Reddit on a non-Reddit platform, but come on! Reddit is super overrated, like they delete and downvote every post and comment I make whereas no one does that here. One time, they told my friend who happens to be autistic, LGBT, and a fictionkin that she “might as well just kill herself”, though that got removed, thankfully, and they call me stupid and delete my post and talk about what a stupid question it is that no one can answer when I, who is autistic, ask a question on why someone acts a certain way or why society has to be a certain way. I’M AUTISTIC. I DON’T GET QUESTIONS THAT COME NATURALLY TO EVERYONE ELSE AND I ASK QUESTIONS THAT NO ONE THINKS OF. MY BRAIN WORKS DIFFERENTLY, MR. REDDITOR!!!
It’s obvious that Reddit hates disabled people since they killed alt front-ends for the blind community a while back.
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I hate to post about Reddit on a non-Reddit platform, but come on! Reddit is super overrated, like they delete and downvote every post and comment I make whereas no one does that here. One time, they told my friend who happens to be autistic, LGBT, and a fictionkin that she “might as well just kill herself”, though that got removed, thankfully, and they call me stupid and delete my post and talk about what a stupid question it is that no one can answer when I, who is autistic, ask a question on why someone acts a certain way or why society has to be a certain way. I’M AUTISTIC. I DON’T GET QUESTIONS THAT COME NATURALLY TO EVERYONE ELSE AND I ASK QUESTIONS THAT NO ONE THINKS OF. MY BRAIN WORKS DIFFERENTLY, MR. REDDITOR!!!
Whoof, yikes, yeah.
Reddit is just chock full of random harassment.
We’ve gotten some here too but it’s not anywhere NEAR as bad. Here we feel relatively safe using ‘we’ and signing our messages. We’ve mostly stopped using ‘we’ on reddit and I get the occasional mocking comments about signing my name.
– Frost
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I hate to post about Reddit on a non-Reddit platform, but come on! Reddit is super overrated, like they delete and downvote every post and comment I make whereas no one does that here. One time, they told my friend who happens to be autistic, LGBT, and a fictionkin that she “might as well just kill herself”, though that got removed, thankfully, and they call me stupid and delete my post and talk about what a stupid question it is that no one can answer when I, who is autistic, ask a question on why someone acts a certain way or why society has to be a certain way. I’M AUTISTIC. I DON’T GET QUESTIONS THAT COME NATURALLY TO EVERYONE ELSE AND I ASK QUESTIONS THAT NO ONE THINKS OF. MY BRAIN WORKS DIFFERENTLY, MR. REDDITOR!!!
reddit will have been going hard since last year, i wouldnt put it as a personal vendetta from reddit. they ban very heavily for random things, especially if even imply certain things that can be misconstrued as something potentiall violating.
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The van is the river
The river is in the van
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I hate to post about Reddit on a non-Reddit platform, but come on! Reddit is super overrated, like they delete and downvote every post and comment I make whereas no one does that here. One time, they told my friend who happens to be autistic, LGBT, and a fictionkin that she “might as well just kill herself”, though that got removed, thankfully, and they call me stupid and delete my post and talk about what a stupid question it is that no one can answer when I, who is autistic, ask a question on why someone acts a certain way or why society has to be a certain way. I’M AUTISTIC. I DON’T GET QUESTIONS THAT COME NATURALLY TO EVERYONE ELSE AND I ASK QUESTIONS THAT NO ONE THINKS OF. MY BRAIN WORKS DIFFERENTLY, MR. REDDITOR!!!
They are all crypto fascist trash, pretending to be left-wing.
Reddit should get struck by Iran next.
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Whoof, yikes, yeah.
Reddit is just chock full of random harassment.
We’ve gotten some here too but it’s not anywhere NEAR as bad. Here we feel relatively safe using ‘we’ and signing our messages. We’ve mostly stopped using ‘we’ on reddit and I get the occasional mocking comments about signing my name.
– Frost
It is, for sure. I’m so sorry you’ve gotten so negative messages. By the way, do you maybe happen to plural?? I am too! So far, we have one other known headmate, he’s Mark! His English is not the best, though, we are natively Spanish.
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It is, for sure. I’m so sorry you’ve gotten so negative messages. By the way, do you maybe happen to plural?? I am too! So far, we have one other known headmate, he’s Mark! His English is not the best, though, we are natively Spanish.
Yeah!! We’re plural too! Oh that’s awesome. *wags*
We have a lot of people, but most of us only showed up a couple times and just haven’t shown up again much since (they’re all still there though). We’ve got a group of like five or six people who front regularly.
– Frost
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I hate to post about Reddit on a non-Reddit platform, but come on! Reddit is super overrated, like they delete and downvote every post and comment I make whereas no one does that here. One time, they told my friend who happens to be autistic, LGBT, and a fictionkin that she “might as well just kill herself”, though that got removed, thankfully, and they call me stupid and delete my post and talk about what a stupid question it is that no one can answer when I, who is autistic, ask a question on why someone acts a certain way or why society has to be a certain way. I’M AUTISTIC. I DON’T GET QUESTIONS THAT COME NATURALLY TO EVERYONE ELSE AND I ASK QUESTIONS THAT NO ONE THINKS OF. MY BRAIN WORKS DIFFERENTLY, MR. REDDITOR!!!
lol no one here is going to say anything nice about reddit
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I hate to post about Reddit on a non-Reddit platform, but come on! Reddit is super overrated, like they delete and downvote every post and comment I make whereas no one does that here. One time, they told my friend who happens to be autistic, LGBT, and a fictionkin that she “might as well just kill herself”, though that got removed, thankfully, and they call me stupid and delete my post and talk about what a stupid question it is that no one can answer when I, who is autistic, ask a question on why someone acts a certain way or why society has to be a certain way. I’M AUTISTIC. I DON’T GET QUESTIONS THAT COME NATURALLY TO EVERYONE ELSE AND I ASK QUESTIONS THAT NO ONE THINKS OF. MY BRAIN WORKS DIFFERENTLY, MR. REDDITOR!!!
wendyz Reddit has a real problem with being built around oversized, hyperactive spaces, and sround tyrany of the majority thanks to their up/downvote mechanics. This resulte in a space where being early to a discussion and then dunking on someone or on some unpopular strawman gets you not just attention, but also a metacurrency that grants you access to more “discerning” spaces.
When communities become too big, thy just become voids to scream into, because no one is reading the comments. They’re just trying to get noticed. That turns them into deeply toxiv plates that turn on anyone trying to have an actual discussion about things.
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Yea Lemmy isn’t much better.
lemmy never really took off and probably never will =/
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You sure said it. Society in general isn’t too friendly to disabled individuals
You have to fit into a certain fucking mold. I didn’t ask to be here, want to be here, and I’m making plans to fuck off to some mountain, and crossbow anyone who bothers me.
I just needed to be allowed to buy cheap meds that aren’t even narcotic, stimulant, or hallucinogenic, just something to reabsorb Dopamine and Noradrenaline.
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It’s obvious that Reddit hates disabled people since they killed alt front-ends for the blind community a while back.
It floors me that all these Internet companies that ignore accessibility aren’t getting smacked down by the ADA (and similar laws elsewhere).
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I removed my posts on several occasions and they showed up when not logged in. their process for removing posts just seem to hide your own posts from your login from what I can tell.
I think if you did it quickly when it first became popular, they were actually purged. Later, Reddit implemented countermeasures.
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Yeah!! We’re plural too! Oh that’s awesome. *wags*
We have a lot of people, but most of us only showed up a couple times and just haven’t shown up again much since (they’re all still there though). We’ve got a group of like five or six people who front regularly.
– Frost
Ooo, cool!!! I’m glad I found a plural collective here!
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lemmy never really took off and probably never will =/
I like it here a lot better than most other networks.
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I think if you did it quickly when it first became popular, they were actually purged. Later, Reddit implemented countermeasures.
I think it did kinda work at first as I did do it several times but I think they restored from some sort of backup and then went to the just hide it from your logged in user.
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