Reddit's community itself became hostile to anti-consumerism. r/ConsumeProduct officially got nuked for 'hate speech' but really it's probably because it made fun of nu-reddit's current 'consumption as a lifestyle' core audience.
They really think this is their holding th eline moment, their lives are downhil leven harder from here as it is.
Let us not forget, as bad as moderators are, admins created them. Reddit management allowed and encouraged powermodding and forced subs after a certain size to take on powermods. They know the insane abuse of power mods practiced and didn't care because it benefitted them.
Still wild to remember that back in 2015 Reddit had the reputation of being sexist and racist. How the times change.
Well, that's what I'm reminding people of, but some people interpret that as defending the mods. Most people don't really understand just how much of a hand behind the scenes the admins had. The mods are the puppets, the admins are puppetmasters (if the admins displayed any mastery of anything at all, that is).
Yes, but this purge is driven by the urge to cash out now before Reddit finally eats itself. They had no problems allowing this boil to fester while the VC virtue buffet was still open. Now they're trying to chain a beast that's run wild too long.
Fidelity, one of the investors in the last round, has to publically say what they belive their stake in Reddit is worth as it makes up one of their mutual funds(Fidelity Blue Chip Growth). It's been continuously dropping since their investment in 2021. I suspect the fact that the slide is public made their other investors concerned.
ah great, just when I was about to get comfortable with some boards
I still don't understand how being anti consumerist became a right wing thing. You'd think that hammer and sickle emoji in bio twitter people would find it to be the easiest thing in the world. I find the "you claim to dislike capitalism, yet you have a smart phone" level dunks to be kind of dumb. But at a certain point you should at least feel a certain amount of shame over all the crap you buy.
I always find it funny how many positions I've held nearly my whole life have suddenly become "right wing" when they were "left wing" when I adopted them.
It's been mentioned in some trade mags for digital marketing (as this is impacting the utility of advertising on reddit, but reddit's not exactly a des-res) and tech sites. Actual MSM? I can't speak for American media, but there's articles on the websites for the BBC, The Guardian (albeit in their tech section) and The Independent (more than once)... but I don't think there's been cut-through to broadcast or print news (beyond maybe The Financial Times), because a majority of their audiences won't know what reddit is besides "a website" and won't see why they should care.
I'd say Tumblr was a much larger force in fostering wokeness, and Reddit was a late joiner when everyone else was doing it. Tranny ideology was taking Tumblr by storm at a time when Reddit was still cooming over Ron Paul. In 2016, Reddit's Trump community was prominent and not marginalized, frequently making the front page. By late 2020, of course, all dissent was banned.
Ovarit was already mentioned ITT, which is the biggest hub. They also have a not completely dead community on SaidIt. And there's whatever spinster.xyz is.
Not to chew too hard on the 'member berries but does anyone else 'member when being against brainwashing kids was a left wing anti religious position?
are you projecting or something.
speaking of reddits IPO, has any other social media platform had it's users completely retaliate against it like this. facebook twitter and even myspace never had this problem. twitter users brought up a stink but didn't start some campaign to make it unusable.
answer this question. who do you think is more likely to buy a bunch of useless trinkets like funko pops. you know those weird toys that are everywhere but you can't even play with them. they just hang a on a shelf. right wingers or left wingers.
funko pop collectors feel like a lie the Soviet Union invented to show its citizens how stupid Americans are and how inefficient capitalism is. Like a warning about what will happen if they let people make their own decisions instead of having the bureaucracy do it for them. And then the people turned on them because even people who had been raised on communism couldn't believe such an absurd piece of propaganda.
My position hasn't changed a bit in the last 10 years, yet somehow I've gone from left-leaning to right-leaning without lifting a finger.
It doesn't, and never has. Wokeshit is a tool used by TPTB to keep raising the temperature of the pot in which the proletariat is slowly being boiled in.
Yeah, I remember how these types were really mad that they couldn't "help children explore their sexualities" for decades.
