Palantir
kiwifarms.net
- Joined
- Sep 5, 2024
Yeah all good points.Honestly I don't think it's astroturfing at all, it's just a byproduct of websites getting bigger and mainstream. Hell, even KF has a woman's section (beauty parlor) lol.
Actually before snark Reddits took off, it was mostly private Facebook groups doing the same shit. Livejournal was used for this type of shit before Facebook groups. Screenshots and mean comments over stupid shit lol.
While I know there are women who join and use the farms, most women tend to be scared of places like lolcow and here because it's more unfiltered and users will make fun of you too.
Whereas Reddit mods and jannies always kowtow to people that cry about being downvoted, have their views questioned/not agreed with, report other comments enough.
Overall I think "snark" is just a socially acceptable code word for making fun of/talking shit about people.
Users here are "evil and doxxxx" because we're honest about the people we're talking about and don't delete things when people fuck up.
snark Reddits are seen as "valid commentary" or use the excuse that things posted "shouldn't take them seriously" even though they do worse (the h3h3 snark legal fall out is coming to mind). But at least they're not racist and homophobic like KF so they're ethical, you see![]()
I meant astroturfing as in loads of subreddit becoming political I think because the PR companies see reddit as a broader base where they can drum up support. Especially with mod teams on their side ignoring heavily botted subs.








