r/watchredditdie was censored/basically removed to slow down the growing popularity of saidit, keep putting saidit.net in your reddit comments to grow awareness

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[–]BrokenDreams 6 insightful - 3 fun6 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 3 fun -  (9 children)

At some point they are just going to ruin so many subs, people will be forced to leave. Was hoping this would happen sooner rather than later.

[–]Chipit 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

Wishful thinking. Reddit is huge, absolutely huge. Most people don't get involved in controversial topics. They post, and think /r/politics is moderate, and wonder why Trump isn't in jail yet and wish they could have Obama back.

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

I searched Reddit for Obamagate, sorting by top-votes. It's like the entire website is blissfully unaware. I mean, there are even clear audio recordings now of Biden colluding with the president of Ukraine which sound creepily like they're sucking eachother off over the phone celebrating a money-laundering scheme.

The thing with a social-media exit is that we don't need a platform like Reddit or Facebook to die, just enough people to exit those platforms for smaller platforms. If 1% of people left Reddit, and 0.5% came here, and another 0.5% to Ruqqus, that would be more than enough traffic to launch two competing platforms. Over time, people would continue to drift over when they realize that Reddit actually kinda sucks and there's other viable alternatives.

[–]Hellothereawesome[S] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (5 children)

Yes but we want them to come here because we know saidit admins have pledged to keep this site free from government influence/nonsense.... That's the goal, right?

[–]BrokenDreams 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

I never said we didn't want them to come here, the point I was making is Reddit will crash on its own and people will be forced out to other platforms, hopefully Saidit.

[–]JasonCarswell 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

It won't crash. It will keep getting pumped full of money via the corporatocracy and deep state to control the normie sheeple. All they need is the majority.

There's no shortage of Facebook scandals yet the sheep stay on.

[–]H3v8 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

So the sheep flock there while those who are not sheep seek an alternative and end up here or elsewhere. It is so difficult to have a meaningful discussion there these days. Maybe it's a good thing that those who can't think for themselves are self-restrained in their bubble.

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

I've often considered that too. If the waters aren't muddy it's more enjoyable to swim in and to discover new things.

But when you go back to their desert and try to explain the colours of a coral reef they have no clue and you're speaking a foreign language to them.

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

https://saidit.net/s/SaiditCanary/

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

Agreed, I try to keep a chart of the percent chances that something might happen within a specific time-period. While I still think a massive Digg-style exit in the next 2 years is less than 50%, I place a moderate-exit at above 50%. I keep noticing things slowly heating up on Reddit.

In a way, it seemed like the Ellen Pao incidents in 2014/2015 should have driven people off the side, but didn't. Now it 2020, the censorship and information control is absurd, and politics are fucking everywhere, and they've banned large segments of political discussion to the point approximately half the political spectrum is completely suppressed.

It's not just politics either, as I've seen most of my non-political and hobby related subreddits have gone down the drain. There's a noticeable increase in fun, interesting, exciting, or thoughtful content and the instant anything slightly political comes up it's like a flock of circle-jerkers show up out of nowhere pushing highly biased off-topic political nonsense.

What I mean is Reddit has become MUCH less fun, interesting, and educational than it used to be. The very reasons for going to Reddit in the first place are gone, especially if you try to stay out of politics. Personally, I intend to "self-ban" myself from politics again (this would be the 3rd time) once this corona-virus shit is over, it destroys my happiness and free time in a huge way.