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I find it weird that people still self censor themselves on platforms like Reddit
Front-page posting / subreddits have spam filters that unalive your comment silently if you trigger keyword matching. I've been blogging these in 2024 and 2025 on another platform. You are not notified, the comment is not published for a single second, and it is done by owners, not the subreddit moderators.
The infantalization of the internet solely so that advertisers feel comfortable is becoming a problem.
Sometimes people need to talk about heavy topics like suicide or sexual assult in a way that's mostly anonymous. Ads are a whole separate issue, but I don't really feel any different about them based on the content surrounding them. Bounty can still sell paper towels if someone says "fuck" next to the ad.
There is an even deeper problem described by Neil Postman in his 1985 book "Amusing Ourselves To Death" !BackTo1985@lemm.ee
Reddit, Lemmy, Bluesky, Twitter, YouTube, comments and advertisements inserted into the middle of content can wreck context in the human brain, entirely shifting the tone. With targeted advertising, two people reading the same story about Ukraine being attacked by Russia come out with different understandings because one person was sold "penis pill" advertising messages in the middle of the story content, another person sold "deodorant for women". Many of the problems we have in current times with audiences / population / society is due to people having fragmented comprehension and understanding, unable to grasp complex ideas and only able to listen to the marketing and advertising provided by the billionaires to provide "free Internet" content.
Context Blindness: Digital Technology and the Next Stage of Human Evolution (Understanding Media Ecology, 10) by Eva Berger (Author), Lance Strate (Series Editor) discusses many of these problems of modern digital media systems, Lemmy, Reddit, Bluesky, Elon Musk X, etc