Posted on 02/25/2020 5:14:47 PM PST by Skywise
From the r/The_Donald subreddit "(Former, as of minutes ago, top mod of the last few years here)
First they changed upvote algorithms to keep us from reaching the masses.
Next, they outright censored us from /all.
Then, they quarantined us, to make it difficult to even see our words, much less spread them.
Then, one by one, they added new rules to stifle what would could even say behind the quarantine. Users were sitewide banned, automod size increased to prevent you from speaking freely.
Still not enough, they decided to start banning us for even liking content we see, things we didn't personally even create. Wrongthink.
Now, they've removed half of our mods, and will be installing their own.
Reddit never wanted to remove The_Donald, but they have wanted to kill us. Not by shutting us down, but by starving us out. Censoring our good content, making it less interesting, making you fear what you can post, or even upvote. It makes less negative press for them to slowly kill us off and replace us than to outright ban us.
Reddit is dead. The_Donald is dead."
Social media is conditioning us to accept regulation and censorship of speech.
No great surprise, I stopped going there after their “firewall” encapsulation.
The_Donald.win
Only the fire is what's different.
I’ve never understood reddit
On the coronavirus sub there I had a comment removed that was critical of the CCP.
Reddit is Sanders country.
WuFlu hits Reddit.
Total paralysis of moderator staff, leaving keyboards frozen.
A younger crowd than us old geezers here on Free Republic, which gives me hope for our future. Because eventually us Freepers are going to die off.
Just took a look over there and it's still very lively.
And yet you are still using Reddit, why?
Reddit’s main function these days seems to be a feeder for quirky articles copied by DailyMail.
I’m sorry for your troubles. It was a very lively site during the last election.
Like freerepublic in a way, it was (was being the effective word) a good place for open discussion of topics and such in various discussion rooms (subreddits) for particular topics (like Star Trek or investing or The_Donald) over time it was first brigaded by leftists who took over the “general” discussions of “news”, “politics” and etc and eliminated any non-leftist conforming speech. This led to other subreddits that were created specific to conservative topics.
The_Donald was a wildly popular subreddit during the 2016 election regularly read by tens of thousands of members who were breaking out of the leftist shell and, is believed, to be one of the reasons that Trump was able to get the grass roots motivation going to beat Hillary.
This pissed off the leftists so much that about they banned The_Donald from appearing on “general” results because it might offend people. Then a couple of years back outright changing their rules to quarantine subreddits, then quarantining The_Donald for “hate speech” (which was nothing more than you see on the leftist subreddits and much tamer). But The_Donald’s “mods” (those who moderate the subreddit to maintain Reddit’s rules) were successful in getting the subreddit to follow even the contradictory and restrictive rules - such that Reddit couldn’t outright ban them and Trump’s support grew.
Until today when they just forceably took over the subreddit.
To this day, I cannot make head or tails from Reddit.
The layout baffles and annoys me. After viewing all the
repetition of headlines, I just take the next Exit out.
It’s like Twitter, but in multiple directions. Nein Danke.
To each his own website. Obviously, Reddit does work for millions of users. Let them have it to enjoy.
Reddit is successful enough to have made one of it’s co-founders a multi-millionaire: Alexis Ohanian aka Mr. Serena Williams.
Let’s make that a link.
Folks, r/The_Donald was an important hotbed of Trump support in 2016. Many of the memes you saw on social media probably got rolling there. It hurts to lose it, but if we can get that crowd going to the above, it will help a lot.
It’s a social media forum site, pretty much.
Not that I want to encourage its use - :P
The main reddit page is a stream of posts of everything you’re subscribed to. What you have to do is cull out the default subreddits they give you and then add on the subreddits you’re interested in to get a good “feed”.
I have the same problem with Twitter (and Gab) like you though which is just way too much noise.
In related news... Democrats really hate us and want us all dead.
It’s true.
r/The_Donald is my favorite site.
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