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[–]magnora7[S] 15 insightful - 2 fun15 insightful - 1 fun16 insightful - 2 fun -  (4 children)

Completely agree. I just worry other people are reading it and taking it seriously, and if the hivemind is too perfect and literally hundreds of millions of people visit it regularly... I worry about the mind of humanity. I feel an obligation to say something sometimes. But it's like pissing in to a tsunami, it feels so futile. Especially after all your comments get deleted because the mods don't agree with the scientific links you post... sheesh.

I'm glad we have saidit at least. I just wish more people came here, and more people told others about saidit. But I'm very grateful to the people who are here, we have a nice little community going here.

[–]ChillyChili 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

I remember being on reddit and not knowing of any alternatives that weren't "full of hackers or crazy racists". It is extremely distressing to be shut down when even trying to question the narrative in communities that exist for exactly that purpose.

It was terrifying, and I too am very grateful for this community.

I guess, in a way, reddit is killing themselves off by going too far. With bannings and censorship becoming commonplace, people leave instead of staying and trying to "fit in" and "behave". Only problem is what prevents saidit from being the next target?

[–]whistlepig 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Reddit use to be full of hackers and some crazy racists back when it was good. That freedom of speech thing is what attracted everyone else. That was why the voting system was created. It allowed people to hide comments/posts below a specific voting threshold so the nervous people could avoid seeing most of the unpopular opinions like racists. That was the whole point of the voting system. It allowed the normies and the free speech zeolots (like me) to hang out together. And it worked great. Unfortunately there are too many who aren't interested in not seeing things they don't agree with as much as they want to forcibly stop others from thinking at all.

[–]roguecanine 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Reddit didn't have the voting system right from the start?

[–]magnora7[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It didn't? I know reddit had votes before it even had subreddits, which would've been 2007-2008 or so, when I started reading it.