Reddit is the 6th most popular website in the world, 4th in the United States. Free Republic, by contrast, comes in at 4,154th in the U.S.
You can disparage sites like Reddit all you want but the truth is, that's where the people are, and if conservatives are trying to get their message across, that's where they need to be.
I don't understand the mindset of people who think they are furthering conservatism by spending all their on-line time at Free Republic preaching to the ever-shrinking choir. President Trump doesn't post here. He posts on Twitter. Youtube, Facebook. That's where people are and that's what makes all the censoring that is going on right now a big deal.
Conservatives need to be taking over these sites, not pouting and avoiding them.
So true.
It seems to me every conservative should find alternative platforms and move there completely. I don’t care if that succeeds in shutting down these free speech hindering liberal hell holes or not and I don’t care if every liberal stays there.
I joined R and read there daily while dealing with a specific legal issue, as there is a fairly good legal sub there, at least technically, although wildly left-leaning. And then I found the AWW pet sub and was truly smitten. Then I ventured out to ASK... and studied it a bit, and a couple of other semi-mild ones. Once I checked out the random sub and was shaken for the rest of the day. Most of that site’s subs are cesspools of depravity beyond description. It was both educational and terrifying. I had to leave for my sanity’s sake. I tried to fight back for a while, but it was like a force of nature against anything mildly civilized. And I never went near the obviously sick subs.
Reminds one of the admonition to be “in the world, not of it”, I’d say.
In other words, know what’s going on, be aware of it, but you don’t have to be all about it.