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Re: Reddit is being funded by a fake company?

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Post by nemo44x » Sat, May 14, 2022, 2:27 PM UTC

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.

This is a great example of gas lighting right here.

Dear Octonian, users were banned left and right for suggesting Covid was a lab leak or for making their case for why vaccines were problematic. It isn’t just banning if extreme ideas and race, sex, and religion.

They banned the president of the United States. It’s about power and controlling the propaganda messaging apparatus.

Re: Reddit is being funded by a fake company?

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Post by SemanticStrengh » Sat, May 14, 2022, 2:28 PM UTC

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.

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Re: Reddit is being funded by a fake company?

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Post by dr-detroit » Sat, May 14, 2022, 2:29 PM UTC

nemo44x wrote: post #51

octonion wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

This is a great example of gas lighting right here. Dear Octonian, users were banned left and right for suggesting Covid was a lab leak or for making their case for why vaccines were problematic. It isn’t just banning if extreme ideas and race, sex, and religion. They banned the president of the United States. It’s about power and controlling the propaganda messaging apparatus.

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Re: Reddit is being funded by a fake company?

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Post by [deleted] » Sat, May 14, 2022, 2:30 PM UTC

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.

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Re: Reddit is being funded by a fake company?

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Post by chronotis » Sat, May 14, 2022, 2:30 PM UTC

cute_boi wrote: post #23

andi999 wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I never see this. Maybe you subscribe to different channels?

Browse to r/worldnews... And that subreddit generally comes on frontpage.

I consume Reddit in generally the same way I consume Twitter - I completely ignore what's trending and only look at the people/subreddits that I've made an explicit choice to follow. Twitter's algorithm gives me more leakage than Reddit's, but I find it to be a tolerable amount.

Re: Reddit is being funded by a fake company?

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Post by pixl97 » Sat, May 14, 2022, 2:30 PM UTC

cyanydeez wrote: post #47

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

The amount of bots on most social media is just staggering.

I had a weird one on Reddit the other day, and in thinking back, I rather wish I had saved it than just reporting it.

There were a comment under one post from 2 different users that was exactly the same. It was a somewhat well though out comment on the shorter side so it caught my eye. When I looked at both the accounts they had the exact same post history, but this was the only comment on the same thread. The other comments were dups of each other on different threads, and they didn't appear to post on the same posts anywhere else in their history.

There was otherwise no other information that would have pointed at them performing any bot like behavior.

Re: Reddit is being funded by a fake company?

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Post by 0des » Sat, May 14, 2022, 2:32 PM UTC

nceqs3 wrote: post #46

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.

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Re: Reddit is being funded by a fake company?

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Post by veilrap » Sat, May 14, 2022, 2:33 PM UTC

nemo44x wrote: post #51

octonion wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

This is a great example of gas lighting right here. Dear Octonian, users were banned left and right for suggesting Covid was a lab leak or for making their case for why vaccines were problematic. It isn’t just banning if extreme ideas and race, sex, and religion. They banned the president of the United States. It’s about power and controlling the propaganda messaging apparatus.

The president of the United States should be treated no differently than other users of the service.

In this case the president repeatedly broke the rules by posting lies and dangerous misinformation. Even given that, his account was allowed to continue to break the rules for far longer than normal peoples would have been.

Re: Reddit is being funded by a fake company?

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Post by jimmaswell » Sat, May 14, 2022, 2:33 PM UTC

cyanydeez wrote: post #47

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

The amount of bots on most social media is just staggering.

I had a weird one on Reddit the other day, and in thinking back, I rather wish I had saved it than just reporting it.

There were a comment under one post from 2 different users that was exactly the same. It was a somewhat well though out comment on the shorter side so it caught my eye. When I looked at both the accounts they had the exact same post history, but this was the only comment on the same thread. The other comments were dups of each other on different threads, and they didn't appear to post on the same posts anywhere else in their history.

There was otherwise no other information that would have pointed at them performing any bot like behavior.

Re: Reddit is being funded by a fake company?

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Post by superkuh » Sat, May 14, 2022, 2:34 PM UTC

cyanydeez wrote: post #47

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

My solution to this was not to look at the front page and heavy RES filtering for my own personal preferences. It worked well.

But eventually the push to gentrify reddit from the venture capitalists demanding profit on their millions made reddit corporate start banning even completely legit, but unprofitably controversial, subreddits. I left after they banned r/gundeals for having the temerity to exist and post links to and discuss firearms and firearm accessory deals online.

All the bot stuff you're talking about came well after the gentrification and switch to user profile centered posting to absorb the Facebook refugees. It seems like the Facebook bots just followed the Facebook users to reddit.