nobody doubted that the worst of reddit would take over after we left
For $8 a month.
That's the idea... It's a protest of a different kind. Still makes the point about moderation needed by people who do it for free.
I demodded myself from shittyadvice before I destroyed my account, but prior to that I posted my idea for what SA should do. I'm convinced that sub exists to cordon off all the trolls so they don't ruin the rest of Reddit but giving shitty advice elsewhere. My plan was just lock the sub but tell everybody in there to spread the love and Make Reddit Shitty Again, aka MRSA. We'd spread like an incurable disease.
I was going to make a comment about how I confused "SA" for Something Awful, but as I continued to read I saw it was still an apt analogy...
What if, and hear me out on this, you go and start posting a bunch of ai images of trump sucking Putin off. Just a thought.
I'd have to go back to spez's teat to do that. I'm no fooking kneeler
/r/freefolk is leaking.
the entirety of reddit is leaking mate
Good habits start now. Link to equivalent Lemmy communities (equivalemmys? sublemmys? what's the plural of Lemmy anyway?) as they come up:
Beehaw has (tentatively, among at least some of us) decided that beehaw 'sublemmys' are hives, or possibly yeehives. We're workshopping it.
Idk for everyone else though :P
Edit: we're all clearly lemmings.
what’s the plural of Lemmy anyway?
Lemmi, obviously
Lemmae?
Kilmisters, duh
Just an FYI, I think linking communities like this: [freefolk](/c/freefolk@lemmy.world) allows every user to click it and view the community from their instance, instead of actually moving to the remote instance where they're not logged in :)
EDIT: this apparently only works if at least one user from your instance has interacted with the linked community, otherwise you get a "community_not_found" error... Still figuring this federated stuff out
And that's a good thing!
absolutely!
This is a fine idea if a ever saw one.
Hey, you don't see me complaining they stay there and don't migrate to Lemmy. I'm pretty fine with that.
I realized that Lemmy being slightly more difficult to get started would mean that the user base will be smaller, but fewer low-effort people would make the switch, so it's really a plus.
I disagree. Us more tech-savvy people will come across, sure. But most people aren't. And they have hobbies and jobs too, and want a place to gather online for that.
I managed to figure out Lemmy, and I’m not tech savvy at all.
Its not rocket surgery. It only seems complicated because it is new. Once you get past the sign up phase and figure out how to find Communities it is easy-peasy.
Same, but I figure I can check in once in a while on the few subreddits that I'm interested in. Some of the subreddits also have a presens on discord, so that could also be an option.
There are DIY communities on the Solarpunk and Beehaw instances that I am subscribed to. Looking good so far!
You are in a very, very small minority there
And that's fine. They will find their place. I'll take a smaller community of tech savvy and people willing to learn over a large community of toxic argumentative people. If you're not willing to learn something new it can be a reflection on how well you'll get along with other people. I don't care if someone is religious or what their political beliefs are but I am not interested in reading about how trans people need to be executed or how women should not have rights. I don't care to open my notifications and see some psycho's message saying I'm not doing my duty and God will punish me for not being interested in having kids. Many of these people go out of their way to verbally assault and threaten, triggered by something as simple as gay people exosting. It's exhausting. So I do hope that Lemmy doesn't become reddit. I hope it filters the best of what we had at reddit regardless of where they're from and who they are, I enjoy discussions and conversation and points of view. I don't want to argue with someone who believes mixed race couples should be illegal.
I see this as an absolute win!
I agree 👍
feel free to shit post starting tomorrow
It's funny because they're implying that the whole sub isn't just shitposts to begin with.
What?!? You don’t think a link to a youtube channel with a Roman bust as their avatar screeching about “muh collapse of western society” is a valuable contribution?!?
The fascists ability to appropriate cool things makes be so sad and frustrated. I love history and Roman history in particular. They are so familiar as humans but at the same time alien in their views if society and the world. Makes it really fascinating.
nazis poison everything they touch
They post shit, not shitposts. Conservatives add nothing to a conversation.
so basically, "we mods are boycotting but we can't act like we actually agree with the other protests."
typical conservative contrarian bullshit as always.
It's not a terrible strategy. Reddit can remove mods and reopen a subreddit but if you turn off automod, any extra moderation bots and let shit run wild then reddit has a problem.
Weaponize the assholes that mods usually have to deal with by giving them full reign.
Assuming those mods stay true to their word then 2 days of hell being allowed to happen might actually be worse overall for the sub.
Couldn't help but notice your username.
Any Cosmere communities over here yet? I haven't seen anything from 17s or elsewhere.
Saving this comment so I can check back after I get Secret Project 3.
Someone throw a padlock on that group to keep them in Reddit.
Please!
I'm all for freedom of speech, but I'm really irked by the lengths people go to just to be offensive.
r/conservative is also not a place for free speech. They ban people for asking questions.
I was banned for "promoting the party switch myth" when I pointed out that the Republican Party of the 1860s is not the same as the republican party of 2020.
It's like an alternative horrifying universe in that subreddit. It kept popping up in my feed and I eventually blocked it but not after letting it ruin my mood way too many times lol. Made me lose faith in humanity...
You can get banned quoting trunp
Well, voat is gone (i think), but Saidit is Right there, mostly empty and waiting for them, hopefully they'll go there and stay there. i actually saw people suggesting saidit to other people last week, so fingers crossed.
🤞
Is there a reason why they're doing this? Blackout's not even political. They just want to be contrarian to everything.
Sort of. Despite being over a million subs for about a year now (maybe more or less, I forget), they try to push the narrative that they are complete Reddit outcasts and are treated unfavorably compared to other political subs. I wouldn't be surprised if they see this as their way of becoming the predominant political sub on the site now that Reddit is falling apart.
I mean, they aren't treated well by other users, they don't deserve to be and shouldn't be. Paradox of tolerance and all that. They have their echo chamber and leaving it means a bad time. They are still treated well by the platform itself.
Yeah, that's what I meant. They get a lot of well deserved hate, but some people on that sub act like the entire place is shadowbanned by the admins even though they've been getting away with blatantly breaking the TOS for years without getting banned.
Exactly. They just get mad because their hate fuelled opinions get shat on.
The entire conservative political philosophy is based on being a martyr. They better be careful, or they're gonna become the dog that caught the car, just like on Twitter.
Not allowing unfettered corporate greed to ruin things is leftist propaganda!
Pretty sure they figure it's all the "Leftist Libtard" subs going dark and so, yeah, they're gonna be congrarian to that. And, at the core, the blackout is about sharing tools to produce a more inclusive community. And that's the sort of thing /r/conservative is staunchly against. So it makes sense they'd go out of their way to go contrary to that.
That’s basically their entire ideology anyway so kinda fits.
I assumed the idea was to fill reddit with trash content. A lot of subs didn’t go dark, so flooding the homepage with trash content will pollute the existing experience.
Going dark fulfills a whole bunch of objectives, filling up with trash is one of them, it's fewer eyes seeing ads because less content keeping people scrolling, people subbed to subreddits that went dark are getting a stream of messages saying the execs at reddit fucked up and are providing alternatives like discord and Lemmy, and anyone who even dabbled with fediverse relates stuff like mastodon are getting messages and emails capitalizing on the mass Exodus saying hey come to lemmy, we're like reddit but decentralized.
Their posts don't seem to deviate much from their usual posts. Target achieved, I guess?
Don't you love it when your normal MO is the hot new thing?
That'll pull in a lot of new users. Conservatives and chuds will see it and flock there. Wouldn't surprise me if any of the investors eyeing the IPO were among them.
I doubt their content is making fp
True, but it will make home for people who are subbed.
Many conservatives are convinced that Reddit is basically a communist website at this point, so anything Reddit approves of MUST be bad
Which is both sad and hilarious. That anyone could be that stupid to actually believe that. And then to realize that this is how poorly people in Western nations are educated.
Well, Reddit the Community. Reddit the Company clearly doesn't approve of the blackout.
For a brief period of time I was on a place on Reddit where new users could get help finding their way around the site.
Someone shows up there and says, "I'm not sure why I'm even on this libt++d communist site, nobody here will respect the way any good conservative American thinks."
I'm thinking, OK, snowflake, don't melt so hard from being a victim, but I responded with, "You might try /r/Conservative, and I can ask their moderators if they have any other suggestions."
I did so: I sent the moderators of /r/Conservative a message explaining what I was looking for and asking for any advice they might have for this new user. The response I got back was, "LOL, F+++ off."
Lovely, lovely people there.
(100% that good conservative American was on the libt++d communist site for the free porn.)
Yeah I tried a few good faith attempts there. People would post asking why there was "no evidence of x" or why "this has never happened" or why "liberals are too afraid to answer y". So I'd link a news article, or a summary of the argument they were asking about.
I think I ended up getting 6 different accounts banned before I gave up.
edit: Also kind of funny how often they'd brag about never banning anyone, while being one of the most ban-happy subs on the platform.
I had something similar happen to me in r/republican. Pre-Trump, it actually wasn't a bad subreddit. You could have relatively civil discussions in there. I often used it to see and ask how Republicans/Conservatives thought about various things. I always tried to be respectful, understanding that that the wasn't "my sub." I flaired myself with a 'D' or something so it'd be obvious that I wasn't hiding and trolling. Had some OK discussions in there the few times I'd dare to chime in.
But it changed once Trump started running. I once was having a civil discussion with a user, trying to understand their take, and ended up linking to an article from a large, mainstream publication, to show what I was talking about.
I was banned with no comment. When I politely asked mods what I did wrong and if I could be unbanned if I promised to not do whatever I did again, I got the message: "Don't link liberal sources." And it wasn't a liberal source! Just something not from Fox or wherever. From then on, I could lurk, but I could never comment.
And the mods got crazier. I'd see that they'd remove comments and ban anyone, even Republicans, who spoke out against Trump. At that point, there was no reason to go there anymore.
Oh, yeah. The subs that claim they never ban are the ones with the biggest ban hammers.
There used to be some really icky subreddit dedicated to... basically being a bunghole. "Public Health Watch", I think. It was anti-LGBTQ+, anti-women, anti-just about everything. Everything was a threat to these poor little pseudo-incels (they couldn't even be incels right). I forget how I stumbled on it, but one day one of them posted a link to a study that "proved" something about women and their sexuality and how it damaged men and I don't remember clearly, but their conclusion was so stupid. So I read the damn study and it explicitly said the exact opposite of what they said. I replied with whole paragraphs from the study showing that the study said disagreed with what that post claimed. I was banned within minutes.
On the one hand, I kinda get it: I regularly deal with pseudoscientists who cherry pick through studies to find one or two sentences that agrees with them, instead of what the study actually says, and claim I'm "interpreting" the study wrong. On the other hand, when you're the cherry-picker, you don't get to be angry when someone else reads the rest of the words and finds out you're the dimwit.
I got banned because I called healthcare, daycare, education, and paternity leave "pro-life" measures.
Granted, I didn't belong there, but I tried to regularly converse in good faith... which they never really deserved anyway.
I'm impressed that you managed to find 6 posts that weren't "flared users only."
They won't leave a single boot unlicked
It's more like, compulsive contrarianism.
Oh yeah, everyone else is gonna STOP using reddit? Well we're just gonna double down!
Well, to be fair, Conservatives see an endgame to make Reddit conservative hell-hole and to re-appriate like Twitter. The opportunity for them to have the cover of legitimacy of an established brand while forcing their regressive politics. I have to give them credit -- it's a bold move and hopefully it won't pay out
Yep. They're scabs, crossing the virtual picket line.
We deep throat the whole boot.
That's how you get boot herpes...
/r/conservative tomorrow be like
Holy smokes I forgot about epic rap battles!!!!!!
Rasputin v. Stalin (v. Lenin v. Gorbachev v. Putin) still pops unbidden into my mind, especially in light of current events.
I'm the host with the most glasnost!
They’ve slowed down considerably, but ERB still put out new ones a handful of times a year and the quality is still pretty damn high!
Nothing says conservative like being happy about big and sudden changes.
Well you've got to remember that these big and sudden changes are great because they benefit the ruling class which the conservatives will eventually become once they've pulled their bootstraps tight enough.
It's just basic logic.
/s
This is exactly what happened to DIGG* and what's currently happening to twitter.
Conservatives get beaten down by the vast majority of users and get a chip on their shoulder. Then as the site starts to die and the users move elsewhere conservatives jump on the sinking ship and declare their the new captain. They start drilling holes in the sinking ship cause theres nkthing else to do, and eventually realize the echo chamber sucks and then move on to the other social networks that everyone else went to, and the process repeats.
I hope with federation that the cycle doesn't repeat but we'll see.
- DIGG made their big DIGG 4.0 change to overhaul the algorithm because it was being gamed and brigaded by members of conservative forums at the time. It just so happened they did it with a user interface overhaul. For a while, after most everyone moved to reddit, the top posts were mostly conservative stuff.
Makes sense. I caught a bit of late Slashdot then went RSS to news sources for a while, then Reddit. I didn't have informed and fleshed out view of the political spectrum at that time to notice. Maybe I've gobbled up some shit that I had to undo later. This reminds me that I miss the Slashdot comment labels. A FOSS platform like Lemmy could be a place to experiment with it.
That's what happened to me back in the day. Being young and naive, definitely picked up some things I had to undo and look back with cringe.
Then as the site starts to die and the users move elsewhere conservatives jump on the sinking ship and declare their the new captain. They start drilling holes in the sinking ship cause theres nkthing else to do,
This is a really clever metaphor. Someone with the skills needs to draw it in the style of a political cartoon from the 1910-20s.
(Also, I saw a great quote somewhere about how conservatives destroy things because they don’t have the capacity to build. Your “drilling holes” reminded me of that.)
They’re doing the same thing that Republicans in Congress are doing/proposing: gerrymandering and raising the voting age. Conservatism is at odds with democracy.
I don't understand the mentality behind this. Is it just a case of "They're doing a thing so we'll do the opposite"? What exactly is the goal here?
That's pretty much been the entire conservative movement's MO for 30 years now.
undefined> “They’re doing a thing so we’ll do the opposite”
That's their gameplan most of the time.
They don't understand. So they're going against the popular movement. Fear is a bitch 🗿
Opportunism - they just want to profit from the black out to push their own sub. As often, the conservative principles (or in this case rules) are not so important if you can gain any success by ignoring them.
I think they hope all the other opinions will go away and they'll get their favorite thing, an echo chamber.
I do, they’re fucking stupid
Couldn't have said it better myself!
I don't hate it. I'm sure some truly vile shit will get posted. Might be enough to get them banned off the site lol.
Again? The real nutballs went off to form patriots.win, after they hilariously lost their preferred domain name in an act of negligence (and/or ignorance.) I could see them pulling the same trick again, forming up a Lemmy node that no one else would federate with a 10' pole.
patriots.win
Good god I'll be cringing all week from this
I see you're not familiar with American conservatives. This is how they operate. They're just not always so open.
Well, you don't need third party apps with good moderation tools if you just don't moderate anything. /s
R/Conservative does moderate. They ban anyone who even whispers anything slightly against their political views. Even if it's quoting Trump himself.
I tried to get banned by commenting about someone being brainwashed in the thread about Trump’s indictment. The post I replied to was basically “If trump is convicted I’ll officially consider myself living in a dictatorship”.
I unfortunately didn’t get banned from the subreddit, just a warning for ‘harassment.’
Oh my, if they were really brave they would un-ban all the supposed liberals that ever slightly ruffled their feathers.
Its not like leftist subreddits never banned Slight opposed viewpoints from conservatives. Both sides are bad when it comes to censorship
In my experience while the amount of moderating done was comparable, the actual content that got removed was different.
In left spaces you would often see people with conservative opinions getting banned and deleted... After they started saying slurs or insulting people. Some people would argue that whether or not something is considered a slur or an insult is a difference in political opinion, but those kinds of things are already against the reddit site-wide rules so it's moot.
In places like r/conservative, people would get banned for being aggressive and insulting people, but also for ever presenting an opinion that isn't strictly in line with modern conservatism. The moderators of that subreddit used bans to remove any and all dissent no matter how severe or mild.
That sub in particular is just notable for banning people for even mild "offenses". I found a post from it on r/all and asked a comment for a source on a claim they made and got permabanned for it calling me a troll.
I worded it as "Damn, haven't heard that. Where can I learn more? " and got banned for "concern trolling"
Sounds like you got banned because your perfect grammar gave away your political leanings.
This is true to an extent, however from my experience, leftist subs are much more lenient on discourse if it isn't blatantly abrasive or offensive or trolling.
I feel like there's a difference between being banned for "this country was built by immigrants" or "racism and nazis are bad" and "vaccines are Satan's poison" and "trans people need to be eradicated".
That's really only balanced truth if we're comparing rank-and-file conservative subs with the most extreme alt-left subs that even most leftists avoided. If you gotta compare r/conservative to r/latestagecapitalism, that says everything.
The rest of the time, you got r/conservative banning people for "maybe Jews aren't part of a conspiracy to kill everyone" comparing with r/liberals banning people for saying that they should be thrown out of a helecopter
Was it equal? I’ll take your word for it :-)
mUh BoTh SIdEs!!11one!!
The difference is you get banned from the conservative subreddits for questioning them about trivial bullshit and from the liberal subreddits for denying people their existence.
So a corporate douche CEO wants to screw over their own userbase in the name of money alone and they are 100% onboard with opposing the boycott/protest...
...but are perfectly fine harassing and threatening stock workers at Target over Pride Month displays, outright absurd-levels of "boycotting" because of a limited-edition can with Bud Light, and the whole Chick-Fil-A DEI hire?
it’s a cult. (always has been.)
I don’t think it’s about morals…
Yes, perfectly on brand.
Boots ain't gonna lick themselves...
maybe if you pull them up by the bootstraps gently...
I wonder, will it be actual shitposting or will it just be them dropping the mask and calling that shitposting
It’s gonna be this. You will see the most racist and hideous stuff. And when called out „muh free speech“.
I mean, I kind of appreciate the fact that the mods decided to do this, because they know very well how this'll turn out. Letting such a rancid community out of leash while many of the wholesome communities are on a break is going to be a shitshow worth remembering, and just the kinda stuff that's going to drop Reddit stock in the eyes of advertisers.
With corporate, appealing to morals or ethical conduct is usually pointless. Hitting their potential evaluation though...
Exactly. When this shitstorm gatherers enough strength someone will report about it. Since the jailbait debacle we know that Reddit doesn’t give a shit what happens on its site. They care when important sources from the outside talk about it.
Like the goblins of Moria.
I guess that makes spez the balrog...or maybe the cave troll.
it's definitely gonna be some schrödinger's asshole type stuff
Yes
Conservative ego is so easy to make a plaything of. What a bunch of blind lemmings.
The supposed tendency of lemmings to run blindly off cliffs is greatly exaggerated, too, and based on a 'documentary' where they were pushed off one by a human. A tiny group of documentarians abused some lemmings and ruined their reputation forever.
tldr I'm proud to be a lemming :) Let's rejuvenate the reputation of lemmings the animal.
That said, I did enjoy the old "Lemmings" video game, featuring rather human-shaped lemmings that you had to prevent from falling to their deaths.
There is a similar game that recently came out called Humanity. It's missing a lot of the charm of the old Lemmings, but it's spiritually in the right place.
We are all Lemmings on this blessed day!
I think my brain cheated for vocabulary without me knowing.
so i did cave in and open https://libreddit.kavin.rocks/conservative/newand i promise you all, if this was an ironic subreddit, i would've pinned this to my browser.
it's just too goofy right now and they're all so proud, i cant help but love it.
i hope they continue to "conserve" reddit LOL. bumblefumble said it best:
"Nothing says conservative like being happy about big and sudden changes."
EDIT: replaced link with libreddit alternative
I rather like this trend of conservatives and their like piling up the mainstream social media, leaving the decentralization and smaller medias to those with more progressive thinking.
It feels like things are upside down when I see it happen the other way around.
I'd consider myself conservative. I'd say they were going to alternate platforms long ago. That was everyone's complaint about all the so-called alternatives is that they leaned heavily right.
Not even sure how r/conservative was allowed to live. Many are misreading their intentions about staying open during the blackout. They want to just not moderate and let everyone go hogwild so it looks like shit. Still proves the point that reddit leaves and breathes by users and moderators goodwill. I prefer the blackout and don't use it method though and that's why I'm here.
Nothing says conservative like failing to see the hypocrisy of your own ideology.
Always needing to be the contrarian, no matter the subject or how it may hurt them as well.
So… a bunch of hateful, ignorant jerks are going to be even more obnoxious than usual? And they think that’s a good thing?
If the blackouts aren’t enough to drive people away, this will. Congratulations, reddit! You’re getting the user base you deserve!
Yep, seeing /r/conservative at the top or /r/all was enough to convince me to just close Reddit completely.
Yep. Flashbacks to the time /r/the_donald shitposts covered the front page. What a horrible time
I was hoping to see it brigaded a ton but unfortunately a quick peek confirms they are just posting some vile anti LGBTQ+ crap.
Par for the course.
Posts like that actually deserve to be brigaded, but nobody wants to throw rocks at the hornet’s nest. Honestly, I can’t blame people for avoiding and ignoring that cesspool.
One would think that a platform killing third party apps and forcing consolidation of users into their app would set some alarms off in the minds of the "we freedom oorah come and take it" party. Unfortunately they don't even pretend to match the branding on the tin.
Freedom for me but not for thee
Freedom for corporations above all
Well, no. See, it’s a private corporation doing this. In the pursuit of money. So they can’t be wrong. Jesus said so in the Bible.
"Cash moves everything around us. Get the money. Dolla dolla bills y'all."
-Jesus Christ, Corinthians 69 420
Wise words.
To a conservative, freedom is second or third behind respecting authority and corporations are king.
There is a reason they love Trump - he's a wanna be dictator. There's a reason they cheer tax cuts for business and the wealthy while they get screwed.
Oh nice, good to see r/conservative doing their absolute best to get people to avoid Reddit.
This, but unironically.
Typical conservatives. Everyone else is fighting for the greater good and they've opted to selfish children.
It's so obvious that they are going for a traffic grab. The message is basically "post stuff that maximizes reach and doesn't scare off randoms". There are subs that decided to address the problem, subs that ignore the problem and then there is r/conservative who try to take advantage of the problem. So fitting.
Gotta admire their ingenuity in taking advantage of people.
I looked on RiF, and that post seems to be gone and the subreddit seems to be going strong with its usual braindead takes.
I'm hoping that this blackout extends, and many of the subs that remain active are the shitty ones that make Reddit look bad.
I would expect nothing more from that cesspit.
Conservatives... more like contrarians.
Can't go on strike, that would be communist!
I was just about to say, "why do they always do the opposite of the right/smart thing?".
Oh yeah, because they don't really have values, they just want to do the opposite of everything they consider woke.
"Solidarity" is a four letter word for some people
The enshittification of reddit.
Since when were they against shitposts?
It's basically their policies
Reddit is the new Parler
At least it's not Gab.
Have always been
Wow, and I thought all the subs leaving + shutting down was bad enough. Now, advertisers are going to see this remaining subreddit flooded with racist and bigoted memes no doubt.
An appropriate legacy for the subreddit. Very "on brand." 🤣
And their ads showing only on those posts, cause that's all the posts there is. 🤔🥲
Turbo mode of enshittification
"Instead of the blackout, we're going to make posting easier! We're definitely helping!"
Sweet Jesus, that's some brain-dead logic.
I mean.. what can we expect from their collective 3 neurons?
In a roundabout way, it kinda does.
If a bunch of losers take their rule holiday as "post whatever I want without consequence" it will make the IP less valuable to potential investors. Killing the value of Reddit may actually be more effective than protesting the changes, it's just more of a "burn everything down on the way out" strategy.
Weaponised toxicity.
They're still enforcing site-wide rules, which means anything actually toxic to Reddit's brand will be covered. Really the go ahead on shit-posting is likely to drive engagement and post count. Doubt it will be anything substantial, but definitely not harmful. If their intent is a mod strike kinda thing, they haven't thought it through too much.
Everything about that post screams brainrot. It's so incredibly well woven that it might as well be unintentional art.
$10 says the "special surprise" is a shout out/recruitment post from something like "truth social" (or wherever they hangout nowadays) to go takeover what's left of Reddit.
The kiss of death!
Is Voat still a thing or did it die off after the initial wave of hateful bigots migrated and nobody else?
Damn, I just looked it up and they shut down in 2020. Long story short, they went anti-woke, then went broke.
Jesus, that was their CEO? It reads like it was written by a 14-year-old edgelord.
Honestly, having been around for the Voat exodus, that's pretty on-brand for the crowd that migrated there. It wasn't exactly the top minds that left because subs like /r/FatPeopleHate were banned.
It ran out of money and shut down years ago.
Or an AMA with the dumpster fire cult leader they all worship.
time to see this advanced conservative humor I keep hearing about.
There is good probability that with people leaving reddit will become a conservative shit hole.
That seems to be the trend for failed social media sites.
Same as twitter huh. This is wild stuff
Id bet money this is exactly what they wanted.
It's free real estate for them now. They'll gain from this.
Internet post-ironic conservatism is the gift that keeps giving. God I love being an American.
Does this mean everyone who's been banned from r/Conservative can post freely today?
Can you imagine? People asking for sources and otherwise ruining r/conservative?
No surprises 🥰
A lil worried about their "special surprise." What could they even do that would be surprising given the abhorrent stuff that already comes out from that sub?
Get some of Trump's offsprings minions to prominently join Reddit and post a rant about their daddy in /r/Conservative?
That wouldn't be surprising though, that's their brand. I was thinking more like if they were planning to stage another January 6th or something.
I'm sure that whatever it is will help Reddit look great to advertizers /s
Man, I was just posting how I feel like we're losing all of our core media social platforms... It's hard for me to not feel like there's some level of orchestration going on
There is. It's the mandatory search for profit under the current economic model. In case you haven't read this excellent piece on the topic. It circulated here a few days ago under another poster expressing similar concerns.
E: Here, found the discussion.
Fantastic article, thanks for sharing! I had a hard time trying to figure out how to reply to you since we're on different domains, but I found a reply button in my message notifications... The pains of learning a new platform!
I'm excited to read some more articles from Pluralistic :)
Figured. I'm pretty new as well. It takes a few days to get used to but it's pretty easy to use afterwards. I like it. Enjoy your stay!
Lmao, Lemmy has hit "hug of death" levels
That was fascinating and depressing.
We should nationalize the big tech companies, or at least mandate that they operate on open protocols. There is no good reason to allow these mega tech companies to keep making profits off the back of the value that is almost entirely created by the users. Especially when making those profits makes the product worse for the very users that make it's existence possible.
I'd be glad to see some changes, but I'd be pretty concerned to see a large part of big social being nationalized and run by the US government. Especially with one of the USA's two political parties openly supporting fascism.
I think the best thing we can do right now is work on alternative platforms and protocols that do not rely on tons of VC money to stay afloat.
Man I blocked all right wing subreddits the day I signed up, been so nice not having to ever see or think about them.
You're welcome.
The special surprise is they got one of Trump's turds and they're all gonna split it
I like what /u/dankmemes is doing: only memes about the API thing.
Oh god, I shouldn't have looked. Their idea of free speech is posting obvious propaganda and shitting on minorities. Classic
Free speech on r/conservative does not include dissent. Celebrate terribleness, or it's the ban-hammer.
Tbf, maybe a shitstorm of racist rants will make advertisers pull their ads, and start a bunch of bad press.
Maybe /r/conservative were playing 4D chess all along.
Or they'll start a prayer circle in hopes that a benevolent billionaire will buy it and remove the site wide rules so they can really wallow in their own filth. Which is more likely considering their version of 4D chess is flipping the board and making claims of actually being the winner.
They'll just get the subreddit banned. I highly doubt Reddit admins want to bother fixing smaller subreddits when most people use the bigger subs.
free hate speech
Clown subreddit.
Wow, absolutely nobody in here gets what they’re doing and just wants to shit on “conservatives”. What they’re doing is what the other mods should also be doing - mod strike! Take down the barriers and let Reddit get overrun with bots, spam, and low-effort posts. If every sub did that instead of the weak-ass “dark for two days guise!” Reddit management would fold immediately.
With this two-days-dark plan, management thinks (correctly?) that they can just wait it out and they win. And they’re probably right. No competent strike ever gives a deadline and expects it to work, that’s absurd. The smarter subs have at least said “at least two days, then we’ll reassess” - that’s the better approach, keep it open-ended.
But the best approach is what /r/conservative seems to be doing, which is just put down their tools and walk the fuck away. Reddit management would have literally no response to that approach if it was the approach taken site-wide.
But whatever, keep shitting on the nazis.
Why in the world would we do anything less than shit on the Nazis?
United we stand in shitting on the Nazis.
On the Nazis we shit.
United we squat
Oh, I just put mine in a stretchy bag and used it as a sort of poop fueled slingshot kinda. Gotta say, it works great once you get the technique down.
My grandpa did espionage for the US AF back in ww2 against the nazis while he was stationed in Europe. If he were alive to see his political affiliations become the nazi party he would have had a mental break. We need to start putting reruns of bugs bunny against the nazis on TV again. Maybe dust Harrison Ford off one more time for a geriatric final fight against the nazis lol!
Agreed. I'll keep shitting on the Nazis.
But seriously, your post makes some strong assumptions with nothing to back them up. For example that depriving advertisers from impressions from a shit ton of users (due to the missing content) and therefore depriving Reddit from that revenue would hurt less than leaving those impressions but attach more garbage content to the ads. If anything, more enshittified platforms like Facebook and garbage media like Fox have proven that advertisers can live with quite a bit of shit around their ads. And so the assertion that this is some 4D chess move on the side of the Nazis doesn't hold water for me.
The time-limited strike argument is also flimsy. Nothing stops the mod community to do this again next week for longer or even indefinitely. The time limit doesn't guarantee Reddit that this won't happen again and for longer. And so I don't see how that's less scary than indefinite strike.
The time to do it next would be right before or during the IPO. Mods and users have tipped their hand though. If anyone working at Reddit has even the tiniest bit of foresight, they should see that coming now and have a plan in place to react or preempt it.
Except that‘s not what they are doing. They are still going to enforce reddit tos. Bootlickers. That‘s essentially all reddit cares abou anyway.
Damn, I thought they were going out in a blaze of glory weekendgunnit style on the first glance. Self-immolating a sub instead of just returning to the new status quo is more effective than this blackout will ever be.
Lmao homie really said “whatever, keep shitting on the nazis” like it was some kind of gotcha.
We will, and we don’t need your permission.
r/therewasanattempt is doing similar, on their own terms.
/r/anarchychess did it and only made it like a couple hours lol
Honestly, I don't care what what's left of reddit does. I'm done with it and I'm perfectly happy here. I have plenty of ways to get news and feel like it's better to check reputable sources instead of doomscrolling and skimming post titles. I need to use my brain more...
Reddit would just take the sub for being unmoderated
The propaganda machine has no days off!
As always, yucky
A boot is a boot.
Is it possible they critical thinking and research ability?
What is the political view of spez, anyways?
He's a tech bro with pp envy towards those peers who flipped their startups for more than he did. He feels silly for having sold reddit for "only" 10 mil and wants reddit's IPO to springboard him into the deeper end of the pool.
I don't think there is a political view of spez, because I think he's just a wannabe Zuck, Dorsey, etc. His motive is cash.
spez is a cunt
I mean yeah, that too, but that's outside of the scope of my answer for OP 😂
In a strange way reading /r/conservative since the mods took a holiday has been kind of fun. I've always checked that subreddit, even though I hated reading it most of the time, I always thought it important to see what the other side has to say. Some of their memes today have been funny, even for a lefty and in some way it's like a beautiful and surprising reddit farewell gift from the place I least suspected.
They’re so desperate for attention.
Of course
I like how they felt like they needed to specify twice that Reddit rules still apply. They sure know their audience.
lmao, excellent
Top minds gonna top.
Yeah, that will teach them. People posting more memes will totally change Reddit's politics.
But it's at least in character. It's about the same stance the conservatives take to any important issue.
Let me know if there's a more appropriate community for this.
acting in contrary just for the sake of it -yeah sounds like modern american conservatives alright
- „A special surprise is being constructed „
Would kinda be funny if the mods that run this sub are acutely lefties and the surprise would be a big fucking „GOT YOU“
Just sayin…
I'm wondering would would happen if I posted some of MY memes, but I'm not breaking the picket line for that :p
Ha, just post as much communism posts and atheists memes. Their little minds will break.
Let's all post there on our remaining accounts and get banned.
Jokes on them. Reddit is down.
What absolutely gooberish behavior lolll. Imagine riding this hard for some huge company who all but said they'd pee on their own users for half a penny.
So they're going the way or /r/worldpolitics?
They can have it all to themselves. I'm happy here now 😉
Strange way to protest, I don't see how posting memes and shitposts will change things 🤡🤡. Reddit TOS still applies, this won't affect advertising or hurt the company.
Lol
"A special surprise is being constructed" made me laugh.