Reddit.com has been censoring /r/redditalternatives

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[–]Trab 16 insightful - 3 fun16 insightful - 2 fun17 insightful - 3 fun -  (3 children)

Reddit practically got a monopoly on Internet Forums promising free speech, low moderation but once they got all the control they immediately flip their ideals.

[–]LabTech 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun -  (2 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.

[–]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.