Reddit doesn’t really have rules unless it’s bad for advertising or a big news outlet picks something up
Well, Mediamatters isn’t the biggest news org, but then again, this is how it starts. A smaller news source runs a story that then leads to other stories, then Reddit admins see it splashed across national news, panic about it, then they ban the sub while pretending they knew nothing about it, or that they had been issuing warnings that went unheard.
/r/gendercritical existed for quite some time. The entire point of that sub was for people to hate trans people.
I assume kotakuinaction is still around somehow as well.
Activating my kritzkrieg so I can get guarantied crits on my gender
Another successful procedure!
Ostensibly it was for people critical of gender as a social construct, i.e. essentially not real (not rooted in material reality). That used to be the progressive feminist position, until what feels like remarkably recently. I’m not sure I totally agree, but I can sympathise with that - you can definitely simplify the current model into biological sex and behaviour, without losing anything. The perceived importance, or essential nature of that behaviour, seems to be the thing that has shifted.
That’s a lot of big words to hide hate.
Ever since covid subreddits either turned into r/the_donald or gender detectives and joe rogan circle jerks. It really got flooded with alt-right new accounts in the span of 3 years. Really weird.
??? … r/conspiracy has been overrun with right wing fake news since like 2015/16 at the very least.
It’s not really weird either, as that’s the time when the propaganda farms (FSB, Cambridge Analytica, etc) started their psychological warfare campaigns for Trump.
Conspiracy became full right wing propaganda quite a while ago. Pictures of Clinton with epstein would get a billion upvotes but there were never any ones of Trump despite him being more relevant
Conspiracy theories dovetail straight into the standard Russian agitprop playbook of “distrust your country’s authorities and institutions” which the right has picked up and sprinted with since 2008 or so.
Always has been. Reddit welcomes it, the rules are just for show. I once reported one of the most vile, racist posts I’ve ever seen in a supposed “dark comedy” subreddit.
“This post has been reported previously and was found to not violate Reddit’s rules.”
Not always, but it definitely shifted into a right wing echo chamber 4 or so years ago
Those kinds of rules were put in place by Ellen Pao.
Reddit is run by a nazi pedophile… again.
Conspiracy is just Conservative these days. Same people, same dumb content.
It’s the Russian agitprop playbook, the end goal is to have people distrusting their government and national institutions so they’re easier to manipulate. Conspiracy subs and other communities just happen to be low hanging fruit for these campaigns.
So does having an inherently untrustworthy government that has worked really hard for that reputation…
By attacking everyone but fat old white men that hate brown people.
Dummies don’t even know who’s deep frying their bread.
Conspiracy was the catch-all for several years when they shut down TheDonald and various other right leaning subs. Now its mostly just bots, trash, propaganda, and mod approved content making it to hot. It used to be an interesting place in the years before that and you can still occasionally find something interesting if sorting by new.
Yup. They serve the same function as the_donald and are above every sitewide rule as a result, just like their predecessor.
they NEED the traffic ~ at least until the IPO anyway…
Haven’t they lost about 2/3 of their value since announcing their intent to IPO? I can’t remember the exact number, but I do remember their valuation cratered and that was before the whole API thing.
They really should pull the IPO. Right now it just looks like the stakeholders are trying to cash out at any valuation because they know the service is heading into the trash heap.
Reddits bread and butter is engagement. What that engagement ends up looking like is far less important. 500 posts screaming death to women that drive is more valuable to them monetarily than 5 posts talking about feeding homeless children. Follow the money and all that.
Enragement = Engagement.
Just like Lemmy. How many instances say “no tankie shit”?
It’s always been like this. It used to be full of Q suckers and magats etc. It’s been a cesspool of stupidity for a looooong time.
Rules are for people reddit disagrees with.
Shoutouts to the community highlighting the conspiracy crazies- /r/topmindsofreddit
The moderators on /r/conspiracy explicitly endorse sexism, racism, vaccine skepticism, calls to violence, general bigotry, etc. but can’t be seen as allowing it. They get around this by quietly banning anyone posting complaints and even more quietly soliciting websites to post these ideas to their subreddit. About 3/4 of the posts reaching their top slot come from only a couple of users/companies with a personal line to the mods. No clue whether the mods make any money off of it or if they’re just true believers.
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Sure, and my trash can has bugs in it, but nobody cares
The bugs in your trash can can’t vote in your elections.
We don’t know if he has trash can elections or not
What? Can you connect your dots for me?
Yes. You should care about far-right activity on all websites because it emboldens far-right voters. If there are enough of those voters, they will accelerate the trend we see globally where conservatives politics has become increasingly fascist.
That’s understandable, but sounds like the conservatives saying we should all be outraged because five public schools(out of 23,000) may introduce a sexually explicit book into their curriculum.
You aren’t demanding any change be made, you’re demanding that people get equally angry at any slight regardless of the efficacy or relevancy of that anger.
You’re also making the assumption that people don’t care about extremism because you don’t understand, or recognize how the care of others is demonstrated.
Silly
From “nobody cares” to “you’re assuming nobody cares” in one hour. Not a record by far, but still a pretty rapid heel-turn.
Congrats, you can piruoette like none other, umption
why do you let Reddit live rent free in your head?
Homie really is wondering why people are talking about reddit in the reddit community. Wild.
On a Reddit clone…
