Has Anyone Figured Out Yet If and How reddit is Isolating Targetted Users From the Larger Population?

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I was finally able to kick the reddit a number of years ago, so the following is just speculation.

You have to be in certain demographics to be a reddit user in current year. It seems likely that openness to wrongthink would be much lower than normal among those who haven't yet been banned, and/or can still tolerate the reddit censorship and propaganda. That could explain the lower engagement.

But it wouldn't be surprising at all if they automated the isolation of users who post prohibited thoughts and beliefs.

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Well I was really only posting on the conspiracy sub because I found any of the others with large numbers of members are so heavily censored. They pretty much prevent discussion of anything outside the realm of mainstream media reporting.

So even though the conspiracy sub claims to have 1.4 million members and shows between 10,000 and 30,000 online at pretty much any time you want to check it, no matter what I posted or how well I presented the information I would see perhaps 20 comments of which a large number were troll comments and a lot of the time nothing but downvotes and how often I would see the same usernames I started to realize this cannot be organic. It is being controlled by some kind of authority that is preventing everyone from communicating openly. It makes me wonder how they do it without it being seen that we are isolated from the larger community.

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Whether automated with word filters, or user reporting, wrongthinkers could be flagged so their posts are only seen by a limited number of users. Don't know if that's what they're doing, but that is one way to do it.