Greentext @sh.itjust.works Gemini24601 @lemmy.world 3d ago

Reddit morals vs Lemmy morals in the greentext community

I recently came across a Reddit post with a greentext also posted here a few weeks before (by me). While the one here got downvoted, the one on Reddit got over two thousand upvotes. Don’t take me wrong however, this has led me to realize how much morals differ between the two platforms; it seems to me like Lemmings have overall better morals in general. I’ve come to appreciate this. Evidence like this shows how much better Lemmy is as a community (excluding lemmygrad) when compared to Reddit. Instead of becoming what you swore to destroy, you became better a better version. I thought you all would find this interesting.

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We sure do live in a society.
OP you made the classic mistake of thinking that lots of upvotes means that lots of people agree with the thing stated in post.

It was upvoted there because it contains the nword. It was downvoted here for the same reason. /s

But seriously people upvote and downvote for lots of stupid reasons. Often posts just need an inital wave of up/down votes and anyone that comes after will just go with the preexisting judgement out of herd mentality.
- It was actually downvoted because the screenshot isn't mobile-friendly. /s
- I have upvoted you because I like your username.
  
  Thanks, i used my passwordmanager to generate a random 2 word passphrase and kept reshuffling until i found a cool sounding combination. All of my usernames are random ones like that :D
  
  And I upvoted you because you upvoted their username.
- I've changed apps since then but Jerboa allowed you to hide the vote count so you couldn't see what everyone else voted for. It was interesting turning it on and off to see how I voted compared to the herd
  
  Would be interesting to have it behave like polls where it shows the results after you voted.
What I find annoying about these memes is that it's always about how Germany killed 6 million Jews during ww2, while they actually killed 17 million ordinary people in ethnically motivated mass killings. That's 11 miillions victims of ethnic cleansing that seem to be forgotten.
I remember removing that post after someone reported it, but it wasn't a judgement of you, OP.

Most of us get that Anon uses bad language and that reading it isn't the same as agreeing with it, but I thought seeing an uncensored N word was going to be over the line for this group.
Morals, lol. Half of lemmy is tankies that unironically think the guys was great. That's one for reddit.
- Seriously, I assumed it was downvoted because the hexbear and lemmygrad chuds got butthurt.
- I'm seriously anything but a Mao simp. But afaik, the famine in China wasn't done on purpose, while the Germans industrialized murder.
  
  Really, the famines were due to the great leap forward killing off everyone who knew how to prevent a famine. Though iirc it's argued that in a few regions the famines were intentional genocide.
  
  Just like in the USSR 🤡
no, it's because people think mao was right here
- No
- Seriously, they can't possibly not understand there may be more at work than talking about historical figures.
Before reading the OOP itself, I thought this post was comparing cropping/orientation etiquette.
Did that post call Hitler the n word? That probably has more to do with the downvotes here
- I just checked the OOP on Reddit, and it is indeed censored there (not just censored by OP here). Lemmy version does not seem to be similarly censored. You may be onto something.
  
  Do people really care if it is censored or not?
  
  Lemmy.world does censor it.
Reddit content is posted by bots and/or upvoted by related bot farms. No human general morality is involved in what gets popular.
- I went back to Reddit the other day because there was a thread discussing the exact problem I was trying to solve. Like 3/8 of the comments were ChatGPT outputs that were added to the thread years after it was posted
The Lemmy post got deleted, though.
- Let me guess tankies didn't like that ditaste a modal Lemmy has for genocide daddies...
  
  The horror!
  
  Looks like it was removed because screen had n word lol
  
  This censorship is idiotic
  
  No need to make up a reason. The modlog clearly states one, and it's the latter. I mean, feel free to host your own instance or community if you don't like the atmosphere.
I don't know anything about China, and I don't use votes as "I agree" so I have no idea what this is about
I've found that in general people here think for themselves. On reddit most everyone becomes a member of a hive and all "think" as one. And it's more like automatically reacting vs. actual "thinking"

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