As I said in my apparently popular "Troons are a honest to fuck cult and I can prove it" post, Milieu Control is what makes Reddit suck rot crotch. Unlike something as visceral and face to face as a Discord with bullshit moderation, where it's confrontational and immediate and everyone can see it all and easily dm eachother, reddit's Milieu Control is subtle and less conscious. It's also harder to make a splinter subreddit since reddit itself will shut you down, while Discord is shockingly bad at stopping servers sharing warez or CSAM.
Unapproved ideas are buried, while the party line is promoted. All most people see is just The Message, so then monkeybrain beep boop fart normies think that way, and most people are, indeed, normies! You're punished, disappeared and finally banned if you don't play along. However, because internet, staying anonymous and operating through multiple identities that come and go ephemerally is still possible. You can DM to a degree, but it's clunkier than Discord or Facebook or the beloved instant messenger programs of times past.
So while someone can take the (literal to the movie, you utter faggots) red pill and operate that way, it makes you a shadow or a phantom to all but people you trust to share your true self with. Underground shit can form and people with sock puppets can make sacrificial subreddits to get a message out here and there and pull people off or form discreet networks that operate off site (over other social media, lol).
As people who can't handle it drop out and give up, or the idiots get sloppy and caught, the underground gets better and better until it's impossible to stop or subvert. Normies slowly find out about it and about other social media platforms. Most faggots just want the updoots and entertainment, whatever, who cares. People who do care will eventually form a critical mass, however. So where do us Farmers fit in?
We're one of the few places where you can create and maintain an identity and speak your mind with some degree of safety and a large degree of freedom. If a mod was a faggot here we'd rip them to pieces and screenshots would pop up on ED and 4chan. We also have a dear ooperator who just doesn't play that game, thank fuck. So, hopeless as it might feel, it's not, and what we're doing is going to be part of how this eventually improves, or at least becomes difficult for the dipshits at the top.
My role in this is articulating how the power structures that the internet sets up allows faggots to literally ruin the world, so, here goes:
It's moderation tools and a lack of face to face violence. I'm serious.
Any faggot can mute, kick, ban, block, mute, time out, humiliate someone, by clicking buttons on a screen, and is insulated from the anger of the person they're doing it to. You don't have to physically fight someone to kick them out or tie them up or gag them, you just click the button. I'd imagine a lot of modfaggots would find themselves missing teeth or dead if they made the attempt to do so in real person, would you not, dear reader?
In person, if people can't get along, they tend to just have drama and split, sometimes a fist fight, but you don't have the same bullshit to anywhere near the same degree. If a group is split over ideas, a narrow majority doesn't lead to the minority being completely shat up, nor does a minority have some magic irl admin console to silence or disappear other people for real. The internet allows power hungry broke brained dipshits to do things that generally require an established power structure and a culture of fear to inculcate.
For an institution or state to bury people and ideas and promote a party line as easily as reddit or other social media can, you literally need a culture of fear and a secret police and everyone fucking knows, they just have to go along. On reddit, a normie can be completely fucking oblivious to it all, which is what's scary.
Discord also facilitates this kind of hog shit, since you can passively aggressively be a faggot moderator, but it's real time, and since DMs and new Discord servers take seconds to set up, splinters happen more easily. So, yes, you still have issues like "troons take over when they install or convert a mod," but the same people can easily just go elsewhere and ban them from even showing up in the first place, lesson learned. Reddit, sadly, is rotten to the core, and big social media like it is too.
So, what do we do?
Get the fuck off of big social media that does that shit, challenge it with sock puppets, and of course:
Cry 'faggot', and let slip the thoughts of war.
