How do we take traffic from reddit that it lost after banning edgy subs

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[–]rubberbiscuit 7 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

I am convinced the vast majority of people are masochists. They seek out abuse anywhere they can. Why else would so many people remain on twitter and reddit? There are 27,896 on this sub and 2 right now. TWO. Reddit has been blocking, banning, canceling voices for years and yet they remain. Masochists I tell you.

[–]JoeyJoeJoe 6 insightful - 3 fun6 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

To be fair, reddit still has eyebleach, random cat videos, and a plethora of specific porn subs. We could boost those here maybe? 😂

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

This is the actual answer. People want a platform where they can enjoy normal content, in addition to censorship-free discussion of hot-button topics. Currently saidit is mostly just a place to say things you can't say on Reddit. People might want to make the switch, but unless we can provide the full package, it won't work. We need more "normal" content like comedy, random advice, cute videos... Porn would also help quite a bit but I understand the platform doesn't want to have to deal with that.