Reddit.com has been censoring /r/redditalternatives

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[–]LabTech 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun -  (6 children)

Aaron dying, Pao being put in charge for a time, spez taking if after her, and 10% being sold off to the CCP certainly didn't help either.

They'll allow a handful of opposition subs to exist to give the illusion that Reddit hasn't decayed into a leftist circlejerk, but obviously they're not going to keep their hands off a forum where people can show them a way out, to places like here. Honestly, I think the Admins only keep the opposition subs there because they know that if they let AHS have their way and be rid of them, the leftists would immediately begin to turn on each other, as none of them can pass the purity tests on ever more asinine requirements to be considered one of the faithful of their little death cult.

[–]LordoftheFlies 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

Well, that, and I suspect that they're more than a little afraid of just what AHS will let slip where the normies might see and take notice. Can't ever let Bardfinn out of his cage and start pissing everywhere, that'd be a disaster.

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

Given what AHS and their type say openly, I shudder to consider what thoughts they think they have to keep close to the chest.

[–]LordoftheFlies 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

If even half of the stories about AHS in general, and Bardfinn in particular, are true, then it's a fair bet to say that a lot of the regulars over there should rightly be locked up for their actions. I heard stories about them routinely weaponizing CP against brigading targets as far back as 2016, which wasn't long after I started using Reddit myself. And, IIRC, Kiwi Farms has/had Bardfinn as one of their notable Internet scumbags for quite some time as well.

[–]LabTech 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yeah, sadly, Reddit hasn't truly been a free speech platform in years, probably close to a decade at this point. With Aaron gone, it was really only ever a race to the bottom, and given the carte blanche given to degenerate there, so long as they're leftist degenerates, that really sets the stage for some real crotch rot to set in. The infection's hit the bone long ago, and the corpse is bloating from gangrene; the only thing that keeps people there is the size, because you can't really find the depth of content, the variety of sub-categories, or the number of users that Reddit has. Sadly, we have to use a couple different alternatives to really even reach a measure of the experience.

If Reddit were to formally die, maybe that would disperse to platforms that actually still value free speech, but I suspect that powerful interests such as the CCP and their Western equivalents keep it alive so as to keep their opponents disassembled online.

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

Reddit's partnership with the Correct the Record campaign in 2014 was the downward spiral I noticed. CTR later revealed in court that they paid millions for social media troll factories, but back then Reddit wasn't worth mentioning in court. They did not mention in court being given full control over mederatorship positions of all the top subreddits, for instance.

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

Reddit was a big platform, and like any big entity no one factor was responsible, but with each item added to the mix, there was obviously a cumulative effect. There's plenty of people out there who could and probably have made reports and documentaries about it; at this point, I think Reddit survives on inertia alone, and the fact that none of the alternatives are yet big enough to challenge it with any real competition. It's effectively a quasi-monopoly as far as the niche it offers is concerned.