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Re: Reddit is being funded by a fake company?

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Post by octonion »

narrator wrote: post #15

I occasionally look at a few very niche subreddits, but for news, Reddit is complete garbage. Reddit has been kind of dead to me since 2016. They were the first big victim of the ongoing anti-free-speech wave that started in 2016.

No one is "anti-free speech", but some companies have decided that overt racism, sexism, anti-Semitism and other forms of bigotry violate what they've decided are reasonable terms of service. If users don't like it, there's always 8chan, Stormfront, Gab, Gettr, Truth Social, Parler.

Re: Reddit is being funded by a fake company?

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Post by dale_glass »

encryptluks2 wrote: post #3

One thing I've noticed with reddit is they constantly push violence to the frontpage and encourage it. Someone calls you a name or uses a racist word, here watch this video of someone getting beat nearly to death for speech and here are 1000 top comments as to why that is perfectly okay and acceptable. I get the feeling the police state actually wants more violence and crime and therefore encourages it quite frequent…

A much simpler explanation is the same thing news sites have discovered a long time ago: violence sells.

It's visceral and easily understandable: "somebody is being hurt and shouldn't be, be outraged", or "somebody is being hurt and should be, feel some schadenfreude" both work.

It also feels important and it's easy to understand. Compare, eg, "ZFS Without a Server Using the Nvidia BlueField-2 DPU". A very tiny percentage even knows what is being talked about, and even being an IT pro I don't without reading (a filesystem without a server? What's a BlueField-2 DPU?). And then considerable effort is needed to read such an article and think about whether it actually says something interesting, and whether something is badly wrong somewhere.

So content almost unavoidably gravitates towards subjects that don't require technical understanding, or thought. Outrage is also good for maximizing clicks and passing the link around.

Re: Reddit is being funded by a fake company?

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Post by octonion »

SirHound wrote: post #11
makotech221 wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Literally any post about ukraine will have redditors screaming for genocide against russia, upvoted to top. Same goes for China

Show me one single post about Ukraine where a top 3 voted comment is “screaming about genocide against Russia”. I will save you the time, don’t bother, because it doesn’t exist.

It exists in their fevered imagination.

Re: Reddit is being funded by a fake company?

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Post by nceqs3 »

lizardactivist wrote: post #43

It's a pro-American global community where very little that attempts to break the echo is allowed to remain visible. It wouldn't be surprising if there is U.S. gov money somehow coming into it via other less-obvious routes.

You ever seen the front page? There is little to no "pro-American" content.

Re: Reddit is being funded by a fake company?

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Post by cyanydeez »

narrator wrote: post #15

I occasionally look at a few very niche subreddits, but for news, Reddit is complete garbage. Reddit has been kind of dead to me since 2016. They were the first big victim of the ongoing anti-free-speech wave that started in 2016.

You also mean they were victims of social media propaganda and gaming the system

/R/the_donald was consistently getting bullshit content to the front page using bots.

If you're pro free speech you'll need to answer towards the onslaught of bot based content generation and fake users

Re: Reddit is being funded by a fake company?

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Post by sophacles »

> In addition, two of these articles are identical, while supposedly having been written by 2 different people at 2 different news sources. Jasmine Andrade from Clear Publicist and Christopher Harpur of Daily Scanner somehow wrote identical articles about Jivteshwar on the same day.

Or a press release went out and was republished by 2 different places. This happens often. Sometimes they'll get reworded and sometimes not.

Edit: republished has 1 'l'

Re: Reddit is being funded by a fake company?

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Post by tekmate »

octonion wrote: post #41
narrator wrote: post #15

I occasionally look at a few very niche subreddits, but for news, Reddit is complete garbage. Reddit has been kind of dead to me since 2016. They were the first big victim of the ongoing anti-free-speech wave that started in 2016.

No one is "anti-free speech", but some companies have decided that overt racism, sexism, anti-Semitism and other forms of bigotry violate what they've decided are reasonable terms of service. If users don't like it, there's always 8chan, Stormfront, Gab, Gettr, Truth Social, Parler.

but looking at it like that doesn't make people feel like they're some kind of freedom fighter (freedom to be bigoted trash)
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