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Re: Reddit shuts down subreddits including r/The_Donald and r/ChapoTrapHouse

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Post by sixteenyearold »

HeadsUpHigh wrote: post #816
ryankemper wrote: post #207

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I'm also not sure how much The_Donald was as a community. It was very clearly a real community, as you can see evidence from the fact that they migrated to thedonald.win when Reddit made it clear that they wouldn't be treated fairly. > So you'd be in your other community and one day they all show up and down votes and the vitriol begins... it was no mystery that this happened, it was spoken of openly in The_Donald…

I'm having a hard time believing this comment was made in good faith. There is nothing made up about T_D, they were blatantly vote manipulating and planting posts in other subs. This has been well known for a while and reddit has done everything in their hand to let the sub exist while trying to make it abide by the platform's rules. The constantly see right wing people complaining about some massive number of left-w…

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Re: Reddit shuts down subreddits including r/The_Donald and r/ChapoTrapHouse

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Post by raxxorrax »

sixteenyearold wrote: post #834
zpallin wrote: post #440

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> they migrated to thedonald.win An individual can migrate a forum without any assistance. Not denying that The_Donald was a community, just saying that the migration of content is not evidence of the extent to which something is a community. > And yet Reddit happily ignores vote brigading and other negative externalities from any subreddit that toes their party line, so it seems bizarre to single T_D out. Except T_D…

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I think these statements are ignored because the authors seem inept and this behavior is expected.

Re: Reddit shuts down subreddits including r/The_Donald and r/ChapoTrapHouse

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Post by newguy1234 »

I don't know how many will see the comment but I was a member of the_donald sub and subsequently migrated to the new thedonald.win

There is a significant shift going on that people aren't realizing. The days of the "platform" being a monopoly over users is coming to an end. The cost of running a website, even a bandwidth heavy website is going lower. As major social networks and platforms crack down on controversial content, these communities don't vanish. They simply move to some other place. In the conservative community this idea of "censorship" is increasing to the point where it is becoming a serious movement. Many alternatives to mainstream media are actually gaining a decent userbase. Here is what is going on that I can see:

Twitter is replaced by parler

Youtube is replaced by bitchute

Reddit subs are replaced by thedonald.win (you can get your sub hosted by them now)

Twitch is replaced by dlive

Just to show you the growth of some of these platforms. Just look at the growth of thedonald.win. Apparently it is ranked at something like 1,250 for the USA by Alexa. That's staggering considering this website is only a few years old.

If you are a web entrepreneur, take note because there is a growing market for "conservative" or "censorship-free" social media now.

Re: Reddit shuts down subreddits including r/The_Donald and r/ChapoTrapHouse

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Post by raxxorrax »

mantas wrote: post #280
andybak wrote: post #238

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> from any subreddit that toes their party line There's plenty of right-leaning subreddits. What set The_Donald apart was how close it sailed to being outright cultishly crazy.

How many left-leaning subreddits were banned? There're several toxic commie subs with a lot of hatred thrown around, but nobody seems to care. r/politics was default for ages and it wasn't exactly a welcoming place.

They did get banned too. chapotraphouse was a large left leaning sub that has been banned.

Re: Reddit shuts down subreddits including r/The_Donald and r/ChapoTrapHouse

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Post by joshschreuder »

newguy1234 wrote: post #843

I don't know how many will see the comment but I was a member of the_donald sub and subsequently migrated to the new thedonald.win There is a significant shift going on that people aren't realizing. The days of the "platform" being a monopoly over users is coming to an end. The cost of running a website, even a bandwidth heavy website is going lower. As major social networks and platforms crack down on controversial…

It's ranked 8,648 from what I can tell

https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/thedonald.win

I have never heard of the other sites you mention, so I can't speak to their popularity. But as far as I can see this all seems very fringe for lack of a better word. There doesn't really seem to be a groundswell of movement towards alternate platforms because of censorship.

Re: Reddit shuts down subreddits including r/The_Donald and r/ChapoTrapHouse

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Post by asdf21 »

admin1010 wrote: post #428

Do you all think Steve is ok? Like on a personal health level? The constant onslaught of "you're a nazi and racist" and being overwhelmingly hated by your user base must take a toll. How do CEOs in positions like this not burn out or avoid major stress-related health problems?

I met him years ago, he was never ok

Re: Reddit shuts down subreddits including r/The_Donald and r/ChapoTrapHouse

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Post by asdf21 »

blisseyGo wrote: post #788

Spez is lying because The_Donald had been inactive for 4 months when the Reddit admins banned their top mods and they all left and built their own website thedonald.win So Spez claiming TD has been continuing to post rule breaking content is literally a lie.

If you follow spez at all that shouldn’t surprise you.

Hell he directly edited the comment database on the_donald one time

Re: Reddit shuts down subreddits including r/The_Donald and r/ChapoTrapHouse

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Post by realmod »

dgzl wrote: post #678
monksy wrote: post #524

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> if you don't block Gab, there are a lot of instances that don't want to talk to you. Modern day witch hunts. (I'm not defending gab, or promoting it) However, these guilt by association hunts are irritating.

You mean calling all conservatives and Republicans racists, Nazis and fascists doesn't make sense?

Gab is a legit nazi/white-supremacist site. You trying to twist it to an attack on republicans/conservatives is laughable, unless you think that they are somehow synonymous.

Re: Reddit shuts down subreddits including r/The_Donald and r/ChapoTrapHouse

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Post by asdf21 »

floatingatoll wrote: post #754
frankzen wrote: post #714

It's about time now to declare the "social media" experiment dead. We're basically learning that there is value in excluding. The all inclusive buffet only brings you down to a neutered lowest common denominator. You're not really going to get any real thought or discussion when you're conversation is monitored by outside moderators. It was doomed to fail anyway.

Do you consider this failure to include this social media site, “Hacker News”?

If you start posting substantive points arguing against socialism / big government you get warned. If you argue about the warning you get banned.

YC is not really any better and the main mod is a self-admitted (although he took it down now) far leftist.

One time I found all the UBI threads and every flagged / mod warned post was someone arguing against UBI (that’s apparent a flame war), but endless idealistic rambling about how great it would be was totally fine.

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