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submitted 6 months ago by Grappling7155@lemmy.ca to c/canada@lemmy.ca

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

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[-] psvrh@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 months ago

/r/toronto is a lot like /r/ontario that way, though /r/ontario it's a little more hit-and-miss, depending on if you hurt a right-winger's feelings that day. Normally it leans left, but if you say something even slightly risque (other than cheap jokes about Doug Ford) and someone gets their nose out of joint, it'll get you banned.

I managed to a few days ago, comparing Doug Ford to the protagonist from Denis Leary's song Asshole. That got me, in no short order, a Reddit Cares email (which I report, because those really are the lowest form of harassment) and a ban for a day alter when, I suppose, that same right winger caught flak for abusing Reddit Cares.

The time defore that was a suggestion that "things won't improve in Ontario until the rich are afraid for their bank accounts, or the lives". That got me another Reddit Cares message, which I complained about, and, yup, another ban.

My local sub (/r/Peterborough) is remarkably level-headed. I'll give it credit.

/r/Canada's a whole other level, though. Yikes.

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