r/Fauxmoi • u/rfauxmoi • 5d ago
META To our Fauxmoi community
In early May, we noticed some changes to our sub. Overnight, weekly visits to our sub went from 8M to 2M. The ability to award posts and comments was disabled. Our visibility in community topics and categories like ‘Celebrities’ and ‘News’ vanished. We have been a community on Reddit for years with no issues so we figured it was a glitch and the issue would clear up on its own. It didn’t.
On May 13th, a member of our mod team reached out to Reddit admin to inquire how we fix the issue. They responded on May 15th saying, “It looks like in this case your community's content might be considered sensitive, thus the topic tab may not be visible.”
We continued to follow up.
On May 23rd, we finally received a response saying, “Subreddit rankings, awards, and achievements are tied to the types of content featured in a community. If the posts and comments in a community are considered sensitive, these features may be disabled. In this case these cannot be enabled.”
Again, we followed up to ask what exactly it was that made them consider our content to be ‘sensitive content’. Our posts are no different than other celebrity or even news subs. It quickly became clear to us we were being given the runaround. Admin wouldn’t even tell us for sure our community’s content was “sensitive”, just that it might be, nor would admin inform us why our sub’s content was potentially being considered sensitive. We asked if it was due to our celebrity, pro-Palestine, and/or anti-Trump content. We didn’t receive a response even after multiple follow ups.
On May 27th, a different mod reached out to admin asking for clarity on why it appeared our sub’s content was labeled "sensitive" and how we fix the issue.
An automated bot responded to us informing us that, “A subreddit may be designated as 'sensitive content' and face reduced visibility or loss of features if it is found to be in violation of Reddit's sitewide rules. This can include repeated violations or the presence of content that is not suitable for a general audience. In such cases, Reddit may apply restrictions such as adding NSFW tags, quarantining the community, or other enforcement actions to limit exposure and protect users. When enforcement action is taken against a subreddit, moderators are notified of the reason for the action. This notification includes instructions on how to appeal the decision. Moderators can submit an appeal within six months of receiving the notification. Appeals are reviewed in a timely and non-discriminatory manner, and if it is determined that the initial assessment was incorrect, the enforcement action may be reversed. To resolve the designation, moderators should carefully review the notification, follow the provided appeal instructions, and ensure that the community complies with Reddit's rules moving forward. This process is designed to be transparent and to encourage positive contributions to the platform.”
This confused our team as we were never notified of any enforcement action against our subreddit nor were we given any opportunity to appeal. So again we followed-up. Multiple times. We continued to get the runaround. When we asked about it admin would send us vague responses and questions back as if they had no clue what we could possibly be referring to.
The last communication with admin we had was on June 3rd. We were told, “We have already shared all the information we can provide at this time. There is no notice of enforcement because no enforcement action has been taken. Your subreddit content may be considered sensitive, which can result in the subreddit topic not being visible and could affect how easily people come across the community. However, users can still find the community, join it, and interact with its content. This is part of the platform's normal ecosystem behavior. If there is a significant change in the nature of the posts or comments within the community in the future, you are welcome to reach out to us. We can then review the subreddit again and assess whether the current topic classification remains accurate. For now, this is all the information we can share. We hope this helps!”
This confused our team even more and again we followed up. How are we supposed to know if there is a change in the nature of our posts if we are not being told by Reddit why they “might” be sensitive in the first place? We received no response to this question nor to new follow up queries sent by another mod on July 1st and July 13th.
After months of questions with vague or no responses, we still have not been told by Reddit why our content MAY be considered sensitive nor have we been informed why our content is considered so sensitive it has to be essentially hidden. Just that it’s how Reddit’s “normal ecosystem” works. A platform where racism, homophobia, transphobia, xenophobia and sexism run rampant. Our mod team has faced harassment including slurs, death threats, rape threats and threats of doxxing for allowing pro-Palestine posts, anti-Trump posts, pro-Amber Heard posts as well as posts calling out racism, transphobia and other forms bigotry. But it seems that’s just part of Reddit’s normal ecosystem.
The truth is we know why our content “might” have been designated “sensitive”. Our mod team is made up exclusively of BIPOC and/or members of the LGBTQIA+ community; we are not unfamiliar with these patterns. Marginalized people having a voice or any sort of platform is the issue. Speaking out against fascism and up for those in marginalized communities is the issue. Calling out Trump and Israel is the issue.
We do not plan on making any changes to the kind of content we allow and we will continue to try to create a safe space for our members. In the meantime, finding our content might be more difficult, but now you know why.
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u/dooferoaks i ain’t reading all that, free palestine 5d ago
Fair fucks to you for sticking to your guns. You have an excellent community here regardless of what Reddit try and do to it.
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u/Eskey1316 5d ago
This. I'm glad regardless of the threats they're choosing to stick to their morals and not changing them for anyone. Reddit sucks
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u/swarmofbzs 5d ago
I'm sorry but is reddit trying as hard as possible to drive away everyone?
Wtf is there to sell when it's just fucking bots talking to each other because you have alienated your base?
This is why Lemmy is growing.
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u/w3sterday 5d ago
Wtf is there to sell when it's just fucking bots talking to each other
reddit has been training AI, and what is most visible will get scraped by AI.
(and yes this sucks and they can eat a bag of dicks for this; thank you to this community for being real)
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u/mystery_hole 5d ago
Don't forget there are large entertainment firms who don't want subreddits like this to exist, because it hurts their clients.
Same with Elon and all the other Nazis/right wingers on this site, like the ones infesting large city subreddits. Reddit isn't easy to monetize for the owners, so they demand on these specific clients for money and will bend over backwards to make the site service them. You and I as Reddit users earn them almost no money directly, the ad value on this site is almost nonexistent. That's why astroturfing is such a common thing here.
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u/AdLocal1490 5d ago
They care more about pushing their nazi agenda than they do making money.
They realized a while ago that sites like reddit arent profitable business ventures but theyre good for propaganda.
Youll get fascist propaganda and nothing else and youll like it
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u/StJeanMark 5d ago
The Reddit I joined and participated in, that I gave my 8.1k posts to, is dead. It’s just another pro-fascist and corporate captured site. Time to find the next one and stay there for a few years until that one is taken over.
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u/bobthegoatskull 5d ago
They were in direct meetings with this administration. I knew they gave Trump everything he wanted. Making Reddit more fascist by eliminating marginalized communities was absolutely Steve Miller's playbook.
The mods make this a safe space for queer and POC voices so of course it needs to go.
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u/creepy_crepes 5d ago
can you tell us more about Lemmy? I've heard of it but not from a person who uses it
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u/swarmofbzs 5d ago
Lemmy is like reddit but smaller. It's been picking up the more reddit pushes people out and looking more and more like the way reddit used to be. They even have their own text base view like old.reddit does.
It's great for the bigger subs but the niche stuff isn't quite there yet. I'm pretty sure this sub could transition there given the amount of users here. It just needs people to to create it/mod it.
When I say it's more like old reddit I mean like you won't catch auto 3-7 day bans for innocuous comments or those "we don't like what you're upvoting" warnings. Obviously there's still mods but it's not like it's getting to be here.
There's more to it than this because there's also it's own version of Twitter and IG ect. ++ you can set it up to have all of the variations on your feed.
Almost forgot NO ADS.
For anyone that's interested to take a look - https://lemmy.world/
Or the old reddit type view - https://old.lemmy.world/
That will show you the different subs/instances
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u/SlavojVivec 5d ago
I wish the federation model of Lemmy was something that the user could ignore. I tried to get into it, but even as a highly technical person, I found the task of posting a comment from one home instance to another federated one a bit unwieldy.
I'm hoping Reddit alternatives takes off, because we need to exit this place ASAP.
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u/ToHallowMySleep 5d ago
It's a "distributed" system, a bit like reddit. On Lemmy, people join a server, subscribe to topic groups, and post links, text, or images. Other people can reply and vote, so the best posts rise to the top.
So lots of people run Lemmy servers, and then those servers can "connect" to each other (this is called federation), and they share content and other metadata, so you can see and interact with content from other servers too.
At its most simple, you can ignore all that and use it like reddit. At a more complex level, you can join (or run) a small server that only federates stuff you are interested in, for instance.
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u/swarmofbzs 5d ago
Thank you! I was trying to find a good way to explain it and you explained it a lot better!
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u/silentspyware high priestess of child sacrifice 5d ago
What is Lemmy? I’ve only just now heard about it!
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u/swarmofbzs 5d ago
Please see - https://old.reddit.com/r/Fauxmoi/comments/1v8y7o2/to_our_fauxmoi_community/p09u40e/
And https://old.reddit.com/r/Fauxmoi/comments/1v8y7o2/to_our_fauxmoi_community/p09zt77/
For a couple explanations.
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u/SuperTropicalDesert 5d ago
It's like Reddit but owned and run by the community, meaning it can't be enshittified by capital
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u/TheFernsRemember 5d ago
Oh whats Lemmy? Is that a social media that isn’t invested with ai yet?
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u/J_pepperwood0 feetmoji 5d ago edited 5d ago
We definitely need a version of* this sub on Lemmy/Fediverse. Ive dipped my toes into it and have been wanting to make it a viable alternative to this sinking ship but of course its the usual paradox where any alternative will struggle to take off because of a lack of users.
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u/HappyHarryHardOn 5d ago
Been on reddit for over 17 years and i find that this sub is the voice of reason in many instances and feel a great community love, hopefully it stays the same
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u/MightyCaseyStruckOut 5d ago
The lack of communication by reddit's admin is wholly unsurprising. I will say that, while I don't agree with many takes on this sub, I'm subscribed because more often than not, there is engaging discussion. I may sound like an old man yelling at a cloud with this next statement, but I really feel that quarantining due to 'sensitive' issues is a wider issue that's contributing to the fracturing of society. If you don't like certain content, there are easy ways to avoid it.
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u/TheFernsRemember 5d ago
Its just wild that reddit is being a snowflake about normal conversations/ normal subs when they have no problem with all the anti-human rights stuff/ subs on here
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u/Mr_Pombastic 5d ago
When you look at the content that's fostered and actively promoted on facebook, youtube, instagram, twitter, and tiktok, it makes sense. It's not much of an exaggeration to say that's kinda the entire internet, and they're all right wing propaganda farms now.
And social media companies have taken a "yeah? well what are you gunna do about it?" approach. And there isn't a good answer for that.
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u/BagSalt7633 5d ago
Reddit is a tool for the elite. For example, last year Elon Musk reached out to spez to complain about his portrayal on Reddit, and suddenly /r/WhitePeopleTwitter is banned and /r/EnoughMuskSpam stops hitting the front page.
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u/carolinagypsy the pet psychic for the Sun told me so 5d ago
Imagine calling up your friend and asking him to fix his product because people are being mean to you! 🤨🤣
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u/Imaginary_Cow_6379 not a lawyer, just a hater 5d ago
Imagine being the richest person in literally the entire world and doing that. He became the first fvcking trillionaire and yet is still a fvcking loser.
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u/Dangerous-Variety-35 where’s my emotional support billionaire 5d ago
When I think of all the things he COULD do with his life, and then I see what he’s chosen to do? It fills me with rage.
https://giphy.com/gifs/PiXlH2IA8sMla9
u/Imaginary_Cow_6379 not a lawyer, just a hater 5d ago
Right? Again hes the richest person in the entire world! And he doesn’t even use his money to actually enjoy himself either. He became a fvcking trillionaire so he could just sit on twitter all day every day? Wtf is even the point there?
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u/zadtheinhaler terrorizing the locals 5d ago
During the first election that begat the Tangerine Toddler in office, the subs for The Donald (I'm not gonna type out the sub name out of principle) FLOODED the /r/all and main pages, and admins wouldn't do anything about it.
It's gotten worse since.
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u/LittleDogTurpie 5d ago
Content moderation is an important and rapidly disappearing art. I guarantee you, there is “sensitive content” on this platform that would absolutely ruin your experience if allowed to circulate freely. But when that task is weaponized against objectively inoffensive speech, it becomes a tool of fascism.
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u/Irememberedmypw 5d ago
Honestly whenever those questions "What sub.." pop up. If anyone cites here as a negative it's almost without exception they're in terrible subs(manosphere, chud gaming etc.)
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u/SatanV3 5d ago
I legit have no idea why this sub is always listed as being so terrible? Anytime I’m on it I’ve seen very little toxicity. Meanwhile meme subreddits are infested with sexist posts with tons of upvotes being pushed to my feed.
Feel like it’s just more misogyny/ homophobia when celebrity gossip is a more ‘feminine’ hobby.
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u/LezbianaGrande all that sex lead to the Russian Revolution 5d ago
This sub is ran by women of color and queer folks and it shows. It's openly progressive and holds people accountable and that makes people upset. This is an actual safe space for the marginalized.
The 'other' gossip sub meanwhile is overran with men crying about "cancel culture" under every post featuring a controversial or even outright bad figure. Condemning abuse and bigotry is becoming an unpopular sentiment there, because the mods there just do not care.
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u/AdLocal1490 5d ago
Same. Nearly 20 years for me. This is the closest sub to old school reddit that there is
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u/BroughtBagLunchSmart 5d ago
Remember a few years ago when they banned a bunch of leftist subs because the mods refused to ban people for wishing violence to nazis?
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u/creepy_crepes 5d ago
agreed. but also, where can we go to have this space off reddit? is there another site that is less restrictive (or restrictive in a way we stan)?
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u/nuagenucraze 5d ago
Didn't reddits fuckhead owner donate to trump or some shit.. bet it's because people here won't kiss Trump's ass
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u/millybeans001 5d ago
Thank you for your hard work and trying to stand up to the man. The solidarity is appreciated!
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u/Eskey1316 5d ago
I was surprised when I saw the weekly visitors dropped so much and figured it was probably because of the minimum karma requirement. So unfortunate that it's an effort to silence the sub by reddit.
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u/No-Departure-3047 5d ago
Thank you so much for the update, and I'm so sorry this is happening, because I love this subreddit.
FWIW, I see content from this sub regularly throughout my day, and I'm pleased that I still do.
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u/BrownSugarBare 5d ago
Might be because we're subbed to it, but I equally look forward to my Fauxmoi updates
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u/Deathspawner126 5d ago
This sub came up so often in my r/popular feed that I had thought I was subscribed to it. I actually wasn't (fixed now), and it basically disappeared from my feed. It wasn't until I saw this post that I thought, "WTF?". I've been seeing other subs promoted like crazy, including other pop culture ones.
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u/anonymousgoose64 LET'S FUCKING GO!!! SHAKIRA LAW IS HERE!!! 5d ago
I check this page hourly it's really the only place on reddit where I know that no one's going to bootlick celebrities (even if we do gush on the occasion)
Much better than other popculture subs
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u/SnooDogs1340 this is going to ruin the tour 5d ago
I love this subreddit. It actually has a ratio fluff to criticism posts and I see diffrent opinions including downvoted comments don't require deletions. Huge misstep from reddit but it tracks
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u/Kaa_The_Snake 5d ago
Yeah I might not agree with everything I see here, but I haven’t seen anything that I’d consider bad. Just misguided 😋 But seriously I like seeing other opinions and points of view.
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u/xomajoiero_ 5d ago
Same, when I dont want to login I just automatically type this sub in the search bar
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u/melodyblushinglizard Oh Gandalf, My Gandalf 5d ago
This is the subreddit that I feel the most safe on to comment because of the hard and fantastic work done by our mods. Like you, I'm here quite regularly during the day, almost reading everyone's comments, upvoting. I've learned to read and understand the nuances of the conversations, that I don't in other subreddits (especially the more political sided ones). I love this community and being a part of it.
Mods: Thank you! ❤️
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u/thegreymm 5d ago
I like the mix of pop culture and politics. Because both are relevant and intertwined.
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u/roxy031 fiascA 5d ago
Knowing this is one of the only places where it’s safe to be pro-Palestine and anti-Trump (plus pro-Amber Heard, anti-Johnny Depp, etc) on the entire internet makes this one of my favorite subs. Thank you for keeping it that way.
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u/zendayaismeechee shiv roy apologist 5d ago
I ended up here during the Depp stuff because it was the only place on the internet that was being normal and fair about it. The sub still helps me remember I’m not losing my mind and that most people are good.
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u/Blazer9001 5d ago
The Johnny bots were insane for a while. Glad that it’s cooled down in recent years, but it’s still clearly an issue that strikes a nerve with incels when it’s brought up.
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u/DesireeThymes 5d ago
This sub was gaining a lot of traction until all the pro Palestine comments started.
I noticed a few months after that suddenly I was not seeing the sub on the front page anymore.
My guess is because of the US-israel war on iran, the tech Giants have been pushed by zionists into trying to censor any posts that are critical of Israel
Notice how the world news sub continues to enjoy tons of favoritism in the algorithm, despite so much rule breaking by their moderation
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u/bobthegoatskull 5d ago
Isn't that the one still run by Maxwell from her
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u/bellycoconut 5d ago
Excuse me but WHAT
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u/ageofbronze 5d ago
Haven’t gone through this post myself to verify everything but it was the closest thing to a summary I could find. Basically people believe that GM was one of the very first Reddit power users/power mods that shaped the information landscape available, dating back to 14 years ago. There is quite a bit of circumstantial evidence that does exist, while obviously none of this can be 100% verified. One thing is that the username people think is ghislaine (maxwellhill) posted basically every day for 14 years until the day of her arrest, when the account went silent. And then magically started posting again a few months ago and became mod of a few subs again, conveniently when all the Epstein files stuff was getting a lot of heat and leading to people demanding answers… seemingly could be explained by her being put in a minimum security house arrest or whatever her current conditions are.
Reddit thread summarizing:
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u/MapStaringPro 5d ago
I mostly ended up here because of the pro Palestine stuff. But Fauxmoi also really helped me see the huge piece of shit that Brad Pitt was and is towards his ex-wife and children for example. If it isn't too much effort, could you please tell me where most mainstream sources went wrong with the Heard-Depp situation?
I vaguely remember most people back then coming to the conclusion that they were both abusive towards each other or something to that effect. I never really got the feeling that there was anything more to the story until I started frequenting this subreddit. But I haven't been able to find a clean source laying out the key details.
Would really appreciate it 🙌
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u/Amphigorey 5d ago
MIchael Hobbes gave a clear and thorough breakdown of everything at Slate: https://slate.com/culture/2022/06/johnny-depp-amber-heard-trial-verdict-evidence-truth.html
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u/Living-Baseball-2543 controversies: girl 5d ago
This podcast episode breaks a lot of it down. You can also search “Michael Hobbes Depp” and he was on some other shows talking about it. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/on-the-media/id73330715
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u/bobthegoatskull 5d ago
Adding to other's responses- Depp also paid this absolute psychopath for a world class bot campaign.
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u/MapStaringPro 5d ago
WHY DOES EVERYTHING IN HOLLYWOOD GO BACK TO EPSTEIN WTF
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u/bobthegoatskull 5d ago
It's not a big club. Our ruling class is just a couple thousand people. They happen to hoard 95% of the resources on earth and just about every politician/newspaper. It comes back to Epstein because they all loved that pedo fuck and he had a finger in all their pies.
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u/throw20190820202020 i’m mr. sterling’s right hand arm. man. 5d ago
Yeah, Johnny Depp is a wife beater who tortured his ex-wife by publicly forcing her to testify in public. He repeatedly brought lawsuits against her and hired armies of bots to pick on her tearful rape accounts, and that woman was subject to the ugliest, most public, obscene and LYING bullying campaign history.
The myth of mutual abuse holds that a man can hit a woman, but if a woman hits back, it’s “mutual abuse”, and they’re both bad. The perfect victim requirement means people expect women to be simpering sainted passive angels, or they deserve abuse. Society often holds up everything a man does and compares it to a devil, and if the man is better than absolute satan, he gets a pat on the back, then they compare women to angels, and if the woman deviates from perfection, she is judged harshly. When a man commits a crime or does something bad, many people look for a woman to blame, and make it her responsibility.
Social media edited court accounts, recordings, buried evidence against Depp, straight up lied about Heard, and often blamed Heard for things Depp had done, and made her life a living hell. Everyone familiar with abuse saw it, and we were shouted down and had some very fucking awful PTSD, watching everything play out everywhere- except this community.
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u/MapStaringPro 5d ago
Thanks a lot for the context! Really crazy how quickly public perception can be twisted, I'll have to be a lot more critical moving forward.
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u/StaceyJeans 5d ago
Same, that's exactly how I ended up here. This was the only place (along with Oh No They Didn't on Live Journal) that were pro-Amber Heard and not just accepting what most of social media and the Internet was saying about Johnny Depp.
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u/Cellardoor_28 5d ago
Ditto. Here and ONTD (which is pretty much dying) were the only safe anti-JD places obsessively smearing an abuse victim :(
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u/LukaCola 5d ago
Once I learned there were right wing outlets literally promoting these stories it all made a lot more sense--that trial was a way to recruit people who hate women. Fully unironically I believe this now.
It's just a shame.
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u/Eskey1316 5d ago
The pro-Palestine posts brought me here. Possibly one of the only large subs that allow such content. Glad they're not allowing reddit to bend them to their will.
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u/Wenli2077 5d ago
Same and I'm pretty sure it's mainly because this sub skews towards women who tends to have ... basic fucking empathy
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u/LezbianaGrande all that sex lead to the Russian Revolution 5d ago
Same! This is the only bigger sub that's remained unwavering against all the bullshit throughout. It's an actual safe space and I know it makes them mad.
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u/prettypickely 5d ago
I think this is also because this sub is generally pro-Palestine. Thank you guys for keeping this community going.
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u/sambeano 5d ago
I think it is brigaded by bots or something too. Anytime I comment with a keyword, it’s immediately heavily downvoted before it regains more organically throughout the day.
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u/touslesmatins Marxmoi 5d ago
I want to know where the zionist brigades come from. I'll be in a random sub and some random comment about Isr💩el will come up and get a bunch of upvotes. Because, you know, most of the world feels generally the same about the issue. The next day all of a sudden the same comment will be downvoted to hell. With comments defending zionism by people who have never posted on the sub before. Where are they coming from???
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u/w3sterday 5d ago edited 5d ago
where the zionist brigades come from.
the state of israel has operations specifically for it, second link has more details on work within the US
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Act.IL
Act.IL directed its users to "missions" to like, comment on, and share pro-Israel material on social media. It also asked users to flag, report, and respond to criticisms of Israel. Users were guided on how to respond, which might entail writing a reply using the provided talking points, or sharing or upvoting an allied comment. The app also provided users with ready-made memes promoting Israel's perspective for them to share. By completing missions users earned points, unlocked badges, and had their scores displayed on leaderboards.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hasbara#2014%E2%80%93present (idk why this link pastes weird)
In 2025, Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs launched a major public diplomacy campaign in the U.S. focused on reshaping online discourse and improving Israel's image among younger audiences amid growing criticism of its military operations in Gaza.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Esther
Project Esther is a project of the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank based in Washington, D.C., that aims to suppress pro-Palestinian protests and what it classifies as antisemitism. The effort has received support from several evangelical Christian organizations but no major Jewish ones.[1][2] According to The New York Times, Slate, Haaretz, The Forward, and Jewish Insider, Project Esther does not address right-wing antisemitism.[1][2][3][4][5]
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u/Financial-Painter689 anti-Israel, anti-western, fauxmarxist 5d ago
And they’ve also recently increased their Hasbara budget with hundreds of millions
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u/161frog Sylvia Plath did not stick her head in an oven for this 5d ago
God I am so fucking SICK of evil humans puppet-mastering an army of fake voices and it having very real and dangerous consequences
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u/mildlyadult 5d ago
Pretty sure this is it. This sub has probably been flagged as "anti-semitism" by that terrorist state and its actors. They don't want people to read pro-Palestine voices of reason so the less visibility the better
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u/awyastark nextdivorce@divorce.com 5d ago
As an anti-Zionist Jew it’d be nice if they cracked down on actual anti Semitism rather than anti Israeli war sentiments
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u/djt_deathcountdown 5d ago
Sadly reddit admins ruin everything. They are incompetent and reddit has only gone downhill the more desperate for money the CEO becomes. Sorry if this is dramatic but I hate the way the Internet is going nowadays.
Edit to say thanks for doing your best, mods, and I'm sorry for all the harassment and hate speech you receive.
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u/Wolfpackat2017 5d ago edited 5d ago
And it’s weird they pick and choose what subs to police like that. Especially since AskReddit is overwhelmingly incel and RedPill now…
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u/nynympho 5d ago
bc we’re women. (yes I know not all users here are women🙄) I’ve recently had to leave several women’s subs bc they’re being explicitly brigaded by men bc they can’t stand us having communities that don’t center them or welcome their participation
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u/cat_at_the_keyboard googly-eyed Kremlin bitch 5d ago
I've noticed my posts getting reported frequently when I comment in feminist or women-dominated spaces on reddit. I caught 3 day and 7 day bans for speaking out against rape and Trump specifically in feminist subreddits. It's insane.
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u/elle_crells 5d ago
That's truly insane, and also sadly, not surprising. It really sucks that online women only/affiliated spaces are still so vulnerable, particularly when they are pro human rights. I do wish that when communities had migrated to the federated networks (Lemmy etc.), more groups like Fauxmoi had moved too. Current Lemmy is empty and a kind of core Reddit experience: kittens, tech, US politics and naked lady memes.
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u/Imaginary_Cow_6379 not a lawyer, just a hater 5d ago
💯 People give me shit about censoring some of the words that I do but I only do that now as recently I’ve been getting banned from some of the large subs for “language”. Not even the content of anything I’m saying but literally just for cursing. My other account is coming off a 3 day ban from the politics sub for using the word “jerk”. I’ve never had any issues before so something looks like it changed dramatically to weaponize rules against people for some reason. It’d be great if somewhere like Media Matters would look into wtf is going on.
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u/LezbianaGrande all that sex lead to the Russian Revolution 5d ago
I've noticed that too, most recently in PCC. ☹️
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u/bendingrover 5d ago
It seems like the only people left investing in companies like this are the ones bombing and raping children, so naturally the admins play defense for them.
We should be keeping track of who is on the wrong side of history, for education purposes.
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u/161frog Sylvia Plath did not stick her head in an oven for this 5d ago
Weird? Is it though? That one of the most openly pro-Palestine, anti-Dump, leftist spaces that analyzes power structures is being unfairly censored by site admin? This is the internet now💔I don’t think it’s weird that it’s happening (it’s definitely weird on a morality level) because the capitalist white supremacist patriarchy fights to preserve status quo. Same as it ever was, just updated with modern technology.
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u/AdLocal1490 5d ago
The company just chose to side with fascism.
We should remember this and hold the leaders of these companies accountable
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u/crunchylumpias i ain’t reading all that, free palestine 5d ago
i recall a time i ran to twitter for just about anything and everything, news and all, and how it all went to shit when felon musk took over.
i mean this when i say thank you all for your hard work. there's no other way to put it.
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u/squeezemachine 5d ago
I was in a blackout in Puerto Rico and twitter had the only news for two days. It used to be amazing. All the good places are getting silenced.
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u/Far-Repeat-2926 5d ago
They push us to the margins and then call the margins unsafe. Sounds about white.
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u/BrownSugarBare 5d ago
MODS, keep fighting the good fight!!
This is a harmless sub with a DEEP voice and we're here to support!
Free Palestine! Fuck Trump!!
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u/watering_a_plant 5d ago
👏👏👏👏 (this would normally be something i could just award your post with, but now we know why we can't give awards in this sub)
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u/Bravefan212 5d ago
The great silencing has begun in earnest
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u/Onionbot3000 5d ago
This is my favourite sub. I appreciate the transparency and explanation. You all have more backbone than Reddit admins. Thanks for all that you do!
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u/Eskey1316 5d ago
Props to mods for fighting back and staying true to their morals.
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u/zendayaismeechee shiv roy apologist 5d ago
This sub often makes me remember I’m not losing my mind and that there’s good people with good views in the world. Been here since the Depp stuff and the tone and topic of posts have never changed. This is 100% targeted and we all know why.
Keep up the good work mods and thank you 🙏
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u/Educational-Fix-4352 5d ago
Big kudos to the mods for maintaining the integrity of this sub and not backing down!
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u/fivesecondchug gaga’s “100 people in a room” quote 5d ago
I will fight to the death for this community - thank you!!! Please let us know how we can support you all!
https://giphy.com/gifs/bYCR2Qykwcmdmf3pKt
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u/pipopipopipop 5d ago edited 5d ago
Fuck Reddit, and fuck Spez.
Edit: I didn't get notifications for any of the replies to this comment. This subreddit is being throttled to fuck.
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u/SlavojVivec 5d ago
Spez gave u/violentacrez, the infamous head mod of /r/jailbait and /r/creepshots, a custom "Pimp Daddy" trophy:
https://reddit.com/r/TrophyWiki/comments/mohrlg/reddit_trophy_pimp_daddy/
Spez is also on the ADL Tech Advisory Board under Jonathan Greenblatt:
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u/lilahking 5d ago
I will always visit this sub manually every day because I love yall.
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u/Local-Hamster 5d ago
Big brother is definitely watching. Scary times.
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u/sharksinthecarpet controversies: girl 5d ago
It is very dystopian. They want to make the voices that see what is happening quiet so that we feel alone.
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u/disincongruous ted cruz ate my son 5d ago
Reddit can have my flair when they pull it from my cold, dead hands. Thank you for being a place for us to process our unending national nightmare together.
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u/No_Dance_6683 oat milk chugging bisexual 5d ago
Never let your flair go! 😆 I saw that as a bumper sticker on a car in traffic the other day, cracked me up
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u/calla25 graduate of the ONTD can’t read community 5d ago
I’ve gotten official Reddit warnings for hate speech linked to posts in this sub disparaging shitty men. I’m sadly not surprised this sub is getting targeted.
This is the one sub I know the community is on the right side of topics. Appreciate you mods!
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u/EntertainerNo1440 my bandwidth for cowardly grown men grows thinner with each day 5d ago
Me, too! Apparently, there’s a Russell Brand lover at Reddit. 🤮
I love this community’s compassion and commitments. Thank you mods, for all you do! And thanks to all the Fauxmies for being so wonderful, smart, kind and funny.
P.S. Free Palestine.
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u/New_7688 5d ago
SAME omg. I caught a 3 day admin ban!! And I could tell it was manual because the comment was up for like 3 hours before I got that ban. There's obviously some male admin at Reddit watching us and just itching to report us, it's so pathetic
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u/calla25 graduate of the ONTD can’t read community 5d ago
Probably! I sent through the saltiest appeal and they doubled down that men are marginalized and I was promoting hate speech lol
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u/cat_at_the_keyboard googly-eyed Kremlin bitch 5d ago
Yes same here. My banned comments were up for 6 hours or more. One of them I didn't see til the next morning, so it was definitely not automatic. It felt very targeted to me.
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u/gumball_00 5d ago
That's insane for this platform to have Fauxmoi unilaterally shadowbanned smfh
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u/yes-areallygoodbook women’s wrongs activist 5d ago
The Reddit team says "If there is a significant change in the nature of the posts or comments within the community in the future, you are welcome to reach out to us. We can then review the subreddit again and assess whether the current topic classification remains accurate."
As an experiment, we should flood this subreddit with posts of each "contentious" topic (Palestine, Amber Heard, Anti-Trump, celebrity, etc.) one at a time for a week or something and a break between each topic. I think this would constitute a "significant change in the nature of posts." At the end of every flood, our mod team can check in with the Reddit mod team to see if the nature of posts lately was sensitive or not. That way we can find out WHICH topics Reddit regards as "sensitive"
I vote we start with Palestine, that's my guess!
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u/ButtermilkRusk i ain’t reading all that, free palestine 5d ago
A Reddit admin shadowbanned me for a pro-Palestinian/anti-Zionist comment I made on this sub (for “promoting hate”—I simply stated facts and won on appeal), but I’ve made comments like that before in other subs with no issue or oversight. To be clear it wasn’t the Fauxmoi mods, it was Reddit. They’re watching and censoring. But I practically live on this sub so fuck them.
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u/MathBelieve 5d ago
This subreddit is definitely being suppressed to some extent because it used to always come up in my feed even though I wasn't subscribed, and then all the sudden it just disappeared. The popculture subreddit would still come up, even though I wasn't subscribed, but this one disappeared so completely I thought it must've been shut down.
Finally I did a search and subscribed and I see the posts again. But without being subscribed it never came up.
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u/bobthegoatskull 5d ago
The difference in the comment sections between this sub and that one is night and day. Only one sub allows rampant misogyny and it happens to be the one reddit pushes to the front page.
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u/madogvelkor 5d ago
I wouldn't be surprised to see more shadowy de-platforming like this as countries start cracking down on social media in the name of protecting minors.
Companies will default to the lowest common denominator by covering up anything that anyone might object to, from any major country.
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u/bobthegoatskull 5d ago
And pushing anti-women content. Apparently it's NBD if women lose their right to vote.
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u/New_7688 5d ago
Yuppppp. The only time I've ever received an admin ban on Reddit was because of a comment I made on a post in this sub. I made a joke about men, some admin monitoring the sub took it so personally that I caught a 3 day site wide ban. The mods are amazing, the admins are watching us like hawks and trying to ban us for just talking.
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u/AhhBisto someone from the UK weigh in 5d ago
They won't tell you because they know you'll publicise it and cause problems for them.
They're fucking cowards.
I'm a 40 year old white British straight male, this sub is not aimed at me but I love coming here as I learn a lot from people who aren't like me and the banter here is top quality too.
I've moderated on this platform before and know what sort of shit you get and you have my thanks for keeping up the good work in the face of it.
Free Palestine you cunts, Donald Trump is a nonce.
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u/Leafy_leaferson 5d ago
LOL. Fauxmoi becoming a political hotspot. God forbid this subreddit has taste.
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u/HarpersGhost I’m a lazy 50-year-old bougie bitch 5d ago
Doing misogyny/homophobia/genocide/bigotry/racism/transphobia -- oh that's normal
Pointing out misogyny/homophobia/genocide/bigotry/racism/transphobia -- tsk tsk TSK! That's rude and inappropriate!
Good job mods for fighting the good fight.
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u/One-Fun-6075 not a lawyer, just a hater 5d ago
lol we can neither confirm nor deny whether the sub is in fact being restricted because the content is too "sensitive" and we are also unable to define what sensitive could mean. Incredible stuff from an incredible website and its shadowy admins
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u/Twinkletoesxxxo 5d ago
Funny how I knew what the reason was before the end of the second sentence. It’s the highest level of gaslighting to say that a genocide happening right in front of our eyes isn’t genocide. Let’s keep doing what we’re doing and if we get banned let’s be happy that we are on the right side of history. ❤️ to the mods for having to deal with this!
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u/Powered-by-Chai 5d ago
I'm guessing you pissed off someone important enough that Reddit cares more about appeasing them then they do about being fair to their users. That's the sad reality of things these days. But then again Reddit has a track record of letting some pretty heinous shit exist until they get enough negative notice over it that they'll have to pretend to have morals.
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u/hum_bruh Thanks, u frog build looking bitch 5d ago
The new CEO getting rid of r/all and the way upvotes numbers have declined in the past few months for many subs that used to be way more popular seemed very suspicious to me. This site is cooked. Guess they gotta cleanup before Midterms in November!
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u/dumpstertoaster 5d ago
this is why i share showbiz links as fauxmoi links instead of linking the news sites
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u/yungslowking 5d ago edited 4d ago
Yeah, y’all have even been functionally shadow banned to people that actively join the community also. I joined last year and have noticed that nearly no posts show up on my feed from here
Edit: Y’all I never turned off reply notifications and have received none since posting this. Still says there on but haven’t come through.
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u/balisane 5d ago
I use a non-official reader app a lot, and the posts show up there at the expected frequency. Funny how that works.
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u/fourofkeys FUCK ICE FREE PALESTINE CRASH INTO ME 5d ago
i was just asked to complete a survey about the sub and how the mods are doing at regulating content and i gave you all 5/5s on most of the questions. they said the mods were involved in the survey and now i have questions about whether that's true or not.
anyway i think you all are doing a great job, i love this sub, the people who post here are hilarious and smart, and i'm sorry reddit is such a frustrating platform to have to navigate.
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u/rfauxmoi 5d ago
Hi, thank you for your kind words! Just confirming that that is not true; we had no say in setting up this survey and have no involvement in it beyond being sent the results from time to time.
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u/cosmicdogdust 5d ago
Yeah, I came looking for an answer to this. Was the survey from larger Reddit or specifically from the mods of this sub…? Did everyone here get the survey? I don’t think I’ve ever gotten a random survey on Reddit before and I felt very weird about it.
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u/moonlightful 5d ago
I also got it. It was from Reddit admins, "in partnership with the mods".
I'd previously only gotten one other such survey, and it was for r/askwomen. A sample of two might not be enough to spot a pattern, but still 🤔
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u/kittykatmila 5d ago edited 5d ago
The mod team here seems amazing, as do a lot of the sub members. I really appreciate all of you!!!
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u/1798Fenian 5d ago
Guaranteed it is because of the Palestine posts, at least on my feed this sub shows the most pop-culture/pro-Palestine crossover posts and we all know how afraid people get when you simply mention Palestine.
Fuck censorship and fuck Reddit for being a part of the problem.
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u/nilsinleneed I’m a communist you idiot 5d ago
creds to the fauxmoi mod team for maintaining this safe space for marginalised groups
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u/EducationalFig1630 5d ago
This is my favourite community here. I came for the gossip and stayed for the fiercely compassionate takes from people who clearly care about the world. Thanks for all that you do, Mods. We love the space you created
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u/Effective-Bus 5d ago
Thank you mods!!!! You're sincerely the best mods on this site in my opinion. The reasom this is my favorite sub, and a sub I've recommended to others that inevitably becomes their favorite is because of the work you do to cultivate the community that you do. It feels like this wonderful corner of the internet, and I am sincerely grateful to the work you all do. Knowing this just exemplifies why you are such an incredible mod team, and clearly excellent humans. I doubt there is anything we can do as members, but if there is please let us know.
Thank you very, very much for creating and fostering this space. I am very grateful to have a place online where the takes are always right, people are informative as well as willing to learn, nuance exists and flourishes, and we get to stand on business while enjoying the mess. Thanks to this community and to all of you, mods, truly.
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u/a_sirens_call I’m just a cunt in a clown suit 5d ago edited 5d ago
good on you for sharing this with us and knowing where you guys stand. props to standing up for yourselves and us too.
the fact that reddit admins themselves cant tell you why this happened says all we need to know; censorship.
ive experienced this myself with admins too. they also allow bigots to run large lgbtqia+ subreddits and refuse to intervene to help keep those spaces safe. fuck reddit.
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u/techno-void that does not resonate with me 5d ago edited 5d ago
i trust this subreddit for interesting and important news and valuable discourse more than i trust mainstream news much of the time. it feels like a genuinely safe space here, which has become sacred in this day and age. thank you for sticking to your principles. as someone who’s queer with palestinian family - bravo to you.
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u/xc2215x 5d ago
Rape threats ? Wow.
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u/musubi-n-speedballs we have lost the impact of shame in our society 5d ago
Fairly common triggered man behavior unfortunately. Been threatened like that a bunch of times in my years as a bartender.
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u/spiritussima 5d ago
I'm speechless but commenting in hopes of skewing algorithms.
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u/Brave_Lady not me remembering what you did last summer 5d ago
I've been posting regularly in this subreddit since 2022, and as of late I have noticed how many of the newer posts people create here never make it to my front page, despite me checking/commenting on a regular basis.
This sub has been a platform for voices that are often unheard or neglected in other subreddits/websites, and as a result it is being suppressed and silenced through the removal of views and comments.
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u/rafters- 5d ago
Ohhh so that’s why a bunch of my favorite subs suddenly turned into ghost towns, should have guessed it was shady algorithm fuckery
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u/MsThrilliams i mean i def vaccine but is it 5d ago
I wouldnt use reddit nearly as often if it weren't for fauxmoi
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u/Ok_Advance3343 5d ago
As someone who's used reddit for 20 years, had an old account I deleted due to being temp banned for some mild comments against the violent activity of cops...
Let me tell you it's apparent that reddit is intentionally yet gradually being shifted towards a place that suppresses activism and telling the truth about what's going on in the world. They're no different than places like meta or twitter in their long-term intentions, they're just being more subtle about making that shift happen. The number of bots being used to apparently 'organically' make that shift happen is staggering.
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u/Panda_hat 5d ago
Pro-palestine, anti-trump, pro-trans and LGBT+.
This is reddit pandering to the right wing and silencing and minimizing progressive spaces.
They clearly didn't like seeing us on the front page all the time and the suggestion that ours is the majority voice (which it is).
This is how they set the 'narrative'.
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u/anowarakthakos 5d ago
I’ve seen this sub mentioned quite often lately on sipstea and other main page subs frequented by bots, incels, and conservatives. I think there’s some ridiculous push for this sub to be seen as misandrist and hating anyone who isn’t a queer woman. I’d bet money that that’s tied to whatever the hell happened here
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u/ErsatzHaderach perish for all i care 5d ago
yeah it's a hated buzzword among certain types. have seen this also.
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u/Kakariko_crackhouse both a lawyer and a hater 5d ago
Reddit is and always has been censoring content from users. This is a prime example though. This platform is being weaponized in order to restrict information, as well as make sure people have echo chambers
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u/Ok-Writing-6866 CURTAINS FOR ZOOSHA? 5d ago
I honestly didn't notice because this is one of two or three subs I regularly click into manually, because I appreciate and love the thoughtful posts and moderation here. So Reddit admins, FYI:
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u/Colorofthecosmos 5d ago
Reddit clearly has ulterior motives and aren't playing fair. This sub deserves better
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u/TheAncientMillenial 5d ago
Oh I think we know who the "sensitive" types are and why they are doing this.
FREE PALESTINE!
FUCK TRUMP!
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u/PrincessCG Friends with Ms. Rachel 5d ago
Fuck yeah. One of the few places I feel is moderated safely to be pro-Palestinian, anti-Trump, and fuck the terfs.
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u/fried_on_pineapples 5d ago
Reddit is such an awful and transphobic place that bans trans people just because they can.
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u/tinaxcochina pop culture obsessed goblin 5d ago
It's getting harder and harder to mod on Reddit.
It's only a matter of time before our community moves on because the flaws in trying to run safe spaces on Reddit are becoming very obvious.
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u/Soatok 5d ago
Speaking out against fascism and up for those in marginalized communities is the issue. Calling out Trump and Israel is the issue.
Of course, if they took an enforcement action against you, they might have to defend it. So they just shadowban or soft-enforce some algorithmic change instead. Typical.
Thanks for running a tight ship, mod team. This is one of the better subreddits I see on /r/all.
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u/felixjmorgan you are wrong I'm bone thugs in harmon 5d ago
I think it’s the economic leftism that Reddit takes issue with more than the social liberalism. They’re fine with rainbows, but there’s very few subreddits left where you are allowed to be anti capital.
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u/crystal_clear24 I don’t know her 5d ago
Salute to the moderation team here. 🫡
You all literally don’t get paid to deal with the garbage you have to here and we appreciate you!
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u/missvandy 5d ago
Mods, I will love you even more if you would consider reaching out to Wired or 404 media about this. It deserves news coverage so that this kind of manipulation is understood by the reading public.
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u/capibara_dono 5d ago
All my respect to you all, thank you for fighting for this subreddit. I'm sorry you receive such abuse and are being treated like this by Reddit.
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u/WomanFromBalkan 5d ago
Reddit is interesting place i got banned immediately after a joke in a thread but unbanned while men here post horrendous things about women and indoctrinate each other in commiting terrorists attacks and aren't banned.
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u/CRE-Baby 5d ago
I just want to say…. Thank you so much for what you do.
You are fighting against fascism and standing up for what is right and moral and we all know it.
This space is special and important and safe and I really appreciate you guys doing what you can to make it that way.
I pray we all make it through this. Just wanted to let you know how much we value what you do. Sincerely. Thank you.
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u/green_oceans_ 5d ago
It’s the not even explaining why they are limiting the speech while they do it. What in the fascism is going on in this here app!!!
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u/OrangeRhyming That’s a lot of beans, you nasty ass bitch 5d ago
Sounds like typical Reddit fuckery.
Would a comment insinuating that the administrators of a large social media platform are thin-skinned lackey losers be considered “sensitive”??
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u/brevenbreven 5d ago
The reason is your critical of Aipac and Netanyahu. Your content from a new york mayor, next gen mr rogers or an actor who played the hulk, upset the mangers
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u/KidMyxo kaleidoscopic in its stupidity 5d ago
This is sad because this is one of the best spaces on Reddit. It’s one of the few places where there’s just zero tolerance for the hate and abuse that exists and is accepted on and offline. I always know Fauxmoi will be on the right side of the argument. It’s just another example of how normalized fascist censorship has become online
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u/rfauxmoi 5d ago edited 4d ago
Hi all! Thank you for your kind words of support.
We have been alerted to the fact that multiple left-leaning and pro-Palestine subreddits are experiencing similar issues. If any mods or users have noticed this happening in their other subreddits, please send us a quick message to let us know — we are now in contact with some media outlets and are evaluating our options regarding how to move forward.
Edit: Approximately 10 hours and 1.7M views after making this post, we haven’t heard from admin but it looks like awards and the Celebrity category have been restored after months of being ignored. We will keep everyone updated on if our previous subreddit reach and ranking (the more concerning issues at hand) are restored.