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Some Hashtags are:

  • "#berniesanders"
  • "#queer"
  • "#obama"
  • "#voteblue" (#votered remains unaffected)
  • "#dnc" (#rnc remains unaffected)
  • "#fucktrump" (#fuckbiden remains unaffected)
  • "#democrat" (#republican remains unaffected)
  • "#kamala"
  • "#prochoice"
  • "#constitution"
  • "#reproductiverights"
  • "#jan6th"
  • "#insurrection"
  • "#14thamendment "
  • "#republicans" (with an s)
  • "#fascism"
  • "#liberal"
  • "#rightwing"
  • “#georgeconway”
  • “#domesticterrorist”
  • “#jacksmith”
  • “#drumpf”
  • “#johnoliver”
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[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Note that if this really is a mistake, it means they're feeding interactions with those hastags through a different system than normal. So yes, you're absolutely being tracked or your algorithm is being modified in some way, there's literally no other possible reason for it.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago

Or they're getting ready to block that stuff at the request of our new dictator, and are trying to get ahead of the curve.

And then they oopsed the implementation.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Spot on. This wasn't a human made decision, this was some AI going off the reservation. It's embarrassing for them as it gave us a peak under the hood.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

lmao what? There's little to no chance that this has literally anything to do with AI, except maybe to generate the list of tags

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

You smell it? Smells like... CENSORSHIP!

And people still think these assholes are "free speech absolutists"... if you stay on those social nets, you are part of the problem.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Totally unintentional freak accident for sure. Maybe they just tried to make them less visible but overdid it?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Whoever made the "mistake" which has revealed these shenanigans, I salute you.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

The fix will be not letting you notice they're blocking it

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Oops, the derate list got confused with the block list...

To bad there's no one to do anything about it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (4 children)

We need to sell the fediverse to people as the cool place it is. That shit doesn't happen here.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Step 1 is making it less technical, less nerdy for the onboarding process. But all the onboarding I've seen seems to want to front load that stuff. If anyone wants to "save the mainstream users" it starts there

Mainstream users will never come here if the sign up flow doesn't at least look like Bluesky who in turn modeled their onboarding to the big SM sites and is probably a big reason why they have so MANY users compared to the entire Fediverse

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

There's a few instances that will remove anything their admins don't like.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I've been banned on lemmy communities more than any other social media. Feel free to look through my posts, I'm far from being some right-wing ass.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Real Real 🔥🗣

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

who the FUCK is on that shithole site expecting anything but garbage?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

“A fix,” uh huh, right.

[–] shutz 3 points 1 month ago

The fix is already in.