Interesting insights into how controlled the narrative is in /r/canada on Reddit. One of the things that struck me was that there’s no self posts in /r/canada unlike many other countries’ and provinces’ subreddits. It would be nice if we differentiated ourselves here on Lemmy with more self posts

  • WatDabney@sopuli.xyz
    60·
    4 months ago

    Hasn’t r/canada notoriously been a mod-dictatorship shithole for years now?

    I never spent any notable time there, but I remember seeing meta-conflicts there spill out onto the front page on a pretty regular basis.

    • GeekFTW@lemmy.zipEnglish
      39·
      4 months ago

      Literally had a self-professed white nationalist on the mod team and as far as I know still does.

      • morbidcactus@lemmy.ca
        8·
        4 months ago

        Is ham sandwich still there?? It’s been ages since I’ve been on /r/Canada, was taken over a very long time ago.

    • boolean@beehaw.org
      4·
      4 months ago

      and this is the problem with reddit (and sites like it, including this one): Create a sub / community, add your mod crew and wait for people to show up. Years later, the original mod team might not have the best interests of the current population at heart. Or you get “overton window creep” where overtime, the moderators shift in political stance from the original intent.

      How can a site ostensibly representing a nation the size of Canada have a limited mod team appointed by who knows who? There is no moderation oversight on reddit. Or lemmy.ml. I think Beehaw has some of that, but not sure how far that goes.

    • AnotherDirtyAnglo@lemmy.ca
      4·
      4 months ago

      Yup, getting reported for saying anything remotely left-leaning or calling out far-right hate speech pretty much results in a permanent ban.

    • saigot@lemmy.ca
      3·
      4 months ago

      Back in the day when stormfront was relavent, they had organized attacks on location subreddits. They tend to be easier to take over than general interest subs and have an outsized influence on politics. /r/canada was the crown jewel of this strategy.