Summary
Reddit’s r/medicine moderators deleted a thread where doctors and users harshly criticized murdered UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.
Comments, including satirical rejections of insurance claims for gunshot wounds, targeted UHC’s reputation for denying care to boost profits.
Despite the removal, similar discussions continue, with medical professionals condemning UHC’s business practices under Thompson’s leadership, which a Senate report recently criticized for denying post-acute care.
Thompson, shot in what appears to be a targeted attack, led a company notorious for its high claim denial rates, fueling ongoing debates about corporate ethics in healthcare.
Lemmy seems to have done the same. At least .world, I dunno about other instances, but I’m looking for a new community.
https://lemmy.world/comment/13815531
Dbzer0. There’s a reason it’s become the central location calling out abuse of power on the fediverse
They do often go far past the mark though. Feels very libertarian over there sometimes.
Sh.itjust.works is pretty nice.
I came here to post, not that anyone cares, that this is the straw that broke this pathetic camel’s back for me with Lemmy. The limited user base and incredibly reduce quality and quantity, clunky tech…I was willing and happy to bear it all thinking I was getting out from under the thumb of fucking corporate censorship and bullshit mod oversimplification. Instead the locked the News thread on the assassination https://lemmy.world/post/22761236 and deleted my comment that said “can’t imagine why” without explanation, ostensibly as it “encouraged or celebrated violence”(https://lemmy.world/comment/13794258).
I provided a response and then they locked the thread. If we can’t even have a discussion about the world why the fuck would I be on fucking Lemmy instead of another shite censored, billionaire-owned platform that at least has user & content depth?
1.5 years, 1300 comments, fuck Lemmy.world and the mod @JonsJava who understands his position in facilitating respectful dialogue that conform to rules to be “overbroadly apply them and pretend it’s something that needs censoring so I can get my jollies” and then say “I don’t have time to deal with this” when you get blowback and lock a thread with tons of engagement. LOL talk about shooting yourself in the foot Lemmy.
I’m debating on lemm.ee or sh.itjust.works or however you spell the second
let me know if you find a good one (good chance it won’t federate with .world)
Will do. I’m looking around. I really don’t want to host my own instance, but right now that seems somewhat probable.
Yeah so far i’m happy with .ee and its mod/federation policy but it’s always nice to have backups
I heard good things about lemmus.org
Join me on BlueSky. It’s reached critical mass. It’s great.
Bluesky is just as corporately owned as Facebook. Why the fuck would anyone join another corporate controlled Twitter alternative?
join lemmy.ml, the politics here are way more sane
I will have to agree to disagree. I’m not interested in joining an authoritarian instance, which .ml is.
I haven’t really had any good experiences with ml and politics.
ah yes nothing says sane politics like fascism and censorship
Ah yes, the epicenter of sanity is the tankie circlejerk
If your definition of “sane” is authoritarian bootlicking and swallowing Eastern propaganda like it’s candy, sure. Say, I wonder what’ll happen if you try criticizing China, Russia or North Korea on your instance?
lol
I criticize and ask directly all the time. I learned not to post or meme reply like I’m an actual adult having a conversation in those spaces though. It takes some getting used to, but it’s possible. People really have a weird skewed view of what it’s like to be a .ml user, I see more privacy and meme posts than anything else. All the political crap usually comes from .world in my feed.
LOL
I was kinda disappointed I couldn’t find anything with .ml when all the .world mod drama was going on. Plenty of meme’s but nothing in the news and politics communities when I checked at the time.
Oh no my fediverse instance won’t let me glorify murder and incite more violence. Waaah!
tbh, .world hasn’t done enough to address the problem.
The billionaires choose violence in the form of killing hundreds of thousands of poor people per day. This isn’t murder. It’s community defense.
Won’t they just replace one CEO with another and increase their security?
I think for proper defense we need to unite against them.
Not defending the CEO, just saying that killing him won’t solve the actual problem :(
Lots of mods on lemmy.world are assholes that dont know how to do their job
They know how. They just have an agenda and serve that rather than doing their job.