Why I am deeply alarmed by reddit censorship

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[–]Fictionsaur 19 insightful - 1 fun19 insightful - 0 fun20 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

It's bad reddit didn't have any significant competition as a primarily anon website for debate. If other communities like saidit appeared earlier, there would be a more equal distribution of users among these communities and so when reddit go down the path of censorship we could just migrate there. Instead, because of the monopoly, reddit will always come up as the first option for people looking for an anon website.

It's a private company. We can only try to bring as much users to join alternative communities enough for them to compete against reddit even though it will take a long time to happen.

[–]Fiyanggu 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Usenet was still there up until a few years ago. I never understood the move away from Usenet to specialized websites and forums. It was so convenient to have everything grouped together and pretty much unpoliced. I miss the wild west days of the internet. Even the AOL invasion was better than today's right-think Big Brother internet.