I believe, wholeheartedly, that governments pay people to astroturf reddit.
They’ve gotten it down to a science at this point. Something I always notice now is people arguing against arguments that don’t exist. They’ll be like “I can’t believe people are saying x” when nobody is actually saying x.
It’s that kind of manufactured outrage, the kind that makes people feel like they’re missing out, that causes them to pretend to understand what’s going on in order to fit in.
It’s sad and disgusting, but I don’t even bother with reddit anymore. It’s too obvious that everyone there is either a shill or an idiot.
Lemmy appears to have gotten all the high-quality posters that reddit used to be good for.
My oldest reddit acount was around 12-13 years old when I moved here and let me tell you the shifts over time were noticeable and constant especially in the world news sub. Honestly looked like it was someones goal to turn it into what it looks like now.
Based on the drama around antiwork after the fox news spot I believe it. I’ve seen admins install mods into already moderated subreddits simply because they weren’t as reddit would like them, profitable.
I thought, it was just me thinking this/ noticing this. But majority of videos are posted by bots continuously and sometimes, it feels as if it is trying to stir up crap.
Reddit is quite useless in general nowadays. Only reason why I’m on it is for the specific subreddits (which are unfortunately not yet here).
This demonstrates why open, federated, censorship resistant platforms are necessary for a healthy world wide population.
Love them or hate them, voices silenced are voices oppressed.
Yes it’s only a matter of time before Hasbara operatives try to suppress pro Palestinian voices on here. They’ve already taken over Reddit.
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I believe, wholeheartedly, that governments pay people to astroturf reddit.
They’ve gotten it down to a science at this point. Something I always notice now is people arguing against arguments that don’t exist. They’ll be like “I can’t believe people are saying x” when nobody is actually saying x.
It’s that kind of manufactured outrage, the kind that makes people feel like they’re missing out, that causes them to pretend to understand what’s going on in order to fit in.
It’s sad and disgusting, but I don’t even bother with reddit anymore. It’s too obvious that everyone there is either a shill or an idiot.
Lemmy appears to have gotten all the high-quality posters that reddit used to be good for.
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My oldest reddit acount was around 12-13 years old when I moved here and let me tell you the shifts over time were noticeable and constant especially in the world news sub. Honestly looked like it was someones goal to turn it into what it looks like now.
Ding ding ding. Moderators have only become less impartial as time went on with reddit.
A public modlog is absolutely necessary to hold mods accountable, which is why reddit doesn’t have one and none of the mods advocate for it.
Based on the drama around antiwork after the fox news spot I believe it. I’ve seen admins install mods into already moderated subreddits simply because they weren’t as reddit would like them, profitable.
I thought, it was just me thinking this/ noticing this. But majority of videos are posted by bots continuously and sometimes, it feels as if it is trying to stir up crap.
Reddit is quite useless in general nowadays. Only reason why I’m on it is for the specific subreddits (which are unfortunately not yet here).
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