The thedonald.win forum was created when Reddit signaled that they were getting ready to ban/destroy the /r/the_donald subreddit.
Reddit had been deliberately punishing the members of /r/the_donald through various means: deflating the actual number of members, downvoting or outright deleting posts, and even in the final days, hijacking it with reddit-friendly moderators which kicked out the original moderators. They prevented any content from reaching the global top feed, which reduced the number of people who would see it, quarantined the community, which made it invisible to those who didn’t already know it existed, and actually started temporarily banning users who even went to far as to like a post on /r/the_donald. It was only a matter of time before they got banned.
That subreddit traditionally is a lot more irreverent, and probably skews younger, but they have generated a lot of buzz and influence by being a tremendous source of memes and atypical social media influence that is fairly recent.
The big-tech left went after it, as they do so many others because it was effectively promoting Trump’s ideals and policies while slamming any who opposed him. It was influential and had to be destroyed.
I wouldn’t take it too personally. They tend to focus on shorter, more pithy, comments and memes compared to Free Republic. I see a lot more long form articles, analysis, and deeper discussion here. Not to say that thedonald.win isn’t entertaining and fun to read, but it helps to have a bit of that irreverent spirit when you are there.
Thanks for that. I didn’t’ know much about the history of the site.
Do you think its worth persisting with? is the site still influential?