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   Ms. Penny ? Oaken (pennyoaken@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 03-Dec-2022 15:03:05 JST Ms. Penny ? Oaken

   Look, all I’m saying is that there’s 40,000+ reasons in a database on my laptop why, when Twitter began to sink, I didn’t recruit people to go to Reddit.
   it’s not a good sign for a “professional”, corporate social media platform that a single volunteer can collect 40K user accounts of Nazis, transphobes, anti-Semites, white supremacists, chronic harassers, violent terrorists, and other evil, because the platform itself isn’t proactively booting them, & has to be fought to remove them.

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     Ms. Penny ? Oaken (pennyoaken@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 03-Dec-2022 15:03:01 JST Ms. Penny ? Oaken

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     But the biggest reason that hate activity on Reddit is down sharply recently is because the hate group leaders all decamped to Twitter in anticipation of Musk gutting the AUP.
     Twitter is now their best economic decision for a captive audience for their hate speech. That is their goal: A Captive Audience. Amplification.

     Which is why we have to persist in the pressure to get people off Twitter.

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     Ms. Penny ? Oaken (pennyoaken@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 03-Dec-2022 15:03:02 JST Ms. Penny ? Oaken

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     Things are pretty quiet w/r/t hate group reporting on Reddit right now, for a couple of reasons, but the biggest reasons include:
     Reddit finally set a Moderator Code of Conduct, & it holds subreddit operators responsible for what they allow to happen in their sub;
     A large group of bigots & harassers Reddit previously ignored got banhammered hard in March 2022 & then investigated by law enforcement for multiple crimes;
     Perspective API (which Reddit uses) brought online a dozen new languages;

     gizmothemogwai repeated this.
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     Ms. Penny ? Oaken (pennyoaken@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 03-Dec-2022 15:03:04 JST Ms. Penny ? Oaken

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     Mastodon as a community has implemented (and CAN implement) community support infrastructure which the subreddit operators of Reddit shied away from repeatedly - cooperating in throttling out bad actors.
     I suspect Reddit, Inc. only adopted a rule against promoting hatred because of Ireland and the EU and Apple pressuring their business model & projected fiscal liabilities.
     Had they not done so, there were hundreds of large subreddits lined up to banbot potentially millions of user accounts