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AnOminous said:
Who do they think they'll advertise to if they ban everyone?
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From what I can tell reddit's current users desperately want the site to be Facebook for some reason. Even though the entire reason it was popular in the first place is that it was 4chan/8chan lite.
 
Ruin said:
From what I can tell reddit's current users desperately want the site to be Facebook for some reason. Even though the entire reason it was popular in the first place is that it was 4chan/8chan lite.
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Was it? I guess it was full of disgusting autists and sick fucks on /r/jailbait, which fits, but Reddit always seemed a lot more left-leaning like most social media while those sites are mostly far-right edge lords. Reddit is definitely a lot more mainstream than the chans in terms of user base size.
 
Pointless Pedant said:
Was it? I guess it was full of disgusting autists and sick fucks on /r/jailbait, which fits, but Reddit always seemed a lot more left-leaning like most social media while those sites are mostly far-right edge lords. Reddit is definitely a lot more mainstream than the chans in terms of user base size.
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idk reddit, back in like 2010, felt more libertarian-ish?

Mostly atheists, anti-government censorship (like that thing with SOPA), pro-freedom (like Aaron Swartz), anti-banks/rich (Occupy wall-street)

Reddit's biggest subreddits used to continuously make fun of SJWs and people who were obsessed with identity politics (remember how ShitRedditSays used to be the laughingstock of reddit? How redditors made fun of tumblrites?)

Nowadays Shit Reddit Says is even less extreme than the rest of reddit, tumblr was nothing compared to reddit now. It's insane how it changed in like 10 years, at most.

Reddit being some weirdly leftist, ban-ready, authoritarian website has only been a thing since 2016, really.

I don't even know exactly how it happened. One day redditors were against internet censorship and corporations, then a few years later they're banning everyone for wrongthink and netflix, facebook, nike and mcdonalds became progressive and good.

Actually, I do think I know. Some people pushed reddit's love for free speech pretty far (i.e. coontown, fatpeoplehate, r/altright, r/incels) so reddit had to do a crackdown at some point, I mean coontown was dedicated to hating black people - literally nothing more.

On top of that, Swartz """"killed himself"""" in like 2011 and Occupywallstreet failed and became centered around identity politics.

Add to that the fact that Reddit admins want the site to actually make money, and it's easy to see how this happened.

What I don't get is why reddit is still filled with racist, sexist and generally hatefull shit - just not against minorities. They cleaned one side, but left the other.
 
Syntaxion12 said:
idk reddit, back in like 2010, felt more libertarian-ish?

Mostly atheists, anti-government censorship (like that thing with SOPA), pro-freedom (like Aaron Swartz), anti-banks/rich (Occupy wall-street)

Reddit's biggest subreddits used to continuously make fun of SJWs and people who were obsessed with identity politics (remember how ShitRedditSays used to be the laughingstock of reddit? How redditors made fun of tumblrites?)

Nowadays Shit Reddit Says is even less extreme than the rest of reddit, tumblr was nothing compared to reddit now. It's insane how it changed in like 10 years, at most.

Reddit being some weirdly leftist, ban-ready, authoritarian website has only been a thing since 2016, really.

I don't even know exactly how it happened. One day redditors were against internet censorship and corporations, then a few years later they're banning everyone for wrongthink and netflix, facebook, nike and mcdonalds became progressive and good.

Actually, I do think I know. Some people pushed reddit's love for free speech pretty far (i.e. coontown, fatpeoplehate, r/altright, r/incels) so reddit had to do a crackdown at some point, I mean coontown was dedicated to hating black people - literally nothing more.

On top of that, Swartz """"killed himself"""" in like 2011 and Occupywallstreet failed and became centered around identity politics.

Add to that the fact that Reddit admins want the site to actually make money, and it's easy to see how this happened.

What I don't get is why reddit is still filled with racist, sexist and generally hatefull shit - just not against minorities. They cleaned one side, but left the other.
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It was always left leaning aside from the libertarian contingent. Swartz was a committed libertarian but the site was founded by Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian who are the typical progressive types. It was just less passionately left wing and a lot less authoritarian than it is now. The support of Occupy in 2011 is the exact same people who were on /r/wallstreetbets this year, they just didn't have TDS back then. I don't think the actual demographic has changed a lot, society has. /r/politics hates big banks about as much as they did back then, especially now Trump isn't the centre of their rage anymore.
 
Ruin said:
From what I can tell reddit's current users desperately want the site to be Facebook for some reason. Even though the entire reason it was popular in the first place is that it was 4chan/8chan lite.
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I think its because there was an influx of normies from facebook that flooded the place. It has 430+ million users. That a huge jump from the 70 million it had in 2013. Reddit at 2013 is probably the reddit you're referring to as 4chan/8chan lite. It's not surprising with that many users that the atmosphere of the site would change.
 
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albert chan said:
What could a redditor talk about with r/aspergers? Not to be dismissive, but I do hope that they’re not parading around thinking having Asperger’s Syndrome makes them a “superhero”, like having autism makes them “relatable” to people.
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From what I've seen, it's different - NEETs waiting for everything to be handed to them by society because they have Aspergers, and wanting society to fully accept them without changing a damn thing about themselves.
 
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Time is a flat fucking circle. We're going back to shaman ages :lunacy:
 
xXPurple_ShrekXx said:
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Time is a flat fucking circle. We're going back to shaman ages :lunacy:
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Buer said:
I think its because there was an influx of normies from facebook that flooded the place. It has 430+ million users. That a huge jump from the 70 million it had in 2013. Reddit at 2013 is probably the reddit you're referring to as 4chan/8chan lite. It's not surprising with that many users that the atmosphere of the site would change.
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Bull fucking shit reddit is anywhere near 430 million users. Once you take out the bots and backup/gimmick/sock puppet accounts, it's probably 10 million *Maybe* 20.
 
Super Hans said:
Bull fucking shit reddit is anywhere near 430 million users. Once you take out the bots and backup/gimmick/sock puppet accounts, it's probably 10 million *Maybe* 20.
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I'm almost certain this is true for almost any social media that requires an account.
 
Syntaxion12 said:
idk reddit, back in like 2010, felt more libertarian-ish?

Mostly atheists, anti-government censorship (like that thing with SOPA), pro-freedom (like Aaron Swartz), anti-banks/rich (Occupy wall-street)

Reddit's biggest subreddits used to continuously make fun of SJWs and people who were obsessed with identity politics (remember how ShitRedditSays used to be the laughingstock of reddit? How redditors made fun of tumblrites?)

Nowadays Shit Reddit Says is even less extreme than the rest of reddit, tumblr was nothing compared to reddit now. It's insane how it changed in like 10 years, at most.

Reddit being some weirdly leftist, ban-ready, authoritarian website has only been a thing since 2016, really.

I don't even know exactly how it happened. One day redditors were against internet censorship and corporations, then a few years later they're banning everyone for wrongthink and netflix, facebook, nike and mcdonalds became progressive and good.

Actually, I do think I know. Some people pushed reddit's love for free speech pretty far (i.e. coontown, fatpeoplehate, r/altright, r/incels) so reddit had to do a crackdown at some point, I mean coontown was dedicated to hating black people - literally nothing more.

On top of that, Swartz """"killed himself"""" in like 2011 and Occupywallstreet failed and became centered around identity politics.

Add to that the fact that Reddit admins want the site to actually make money, and it's easy to see how this happened.

What I don't get is why reddit is still filled with racist, sexist and generally hatefull shit - just not against minorities. They cleaned one side, but left the other.
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honestly its not just reddit besides a few places thats how the whole internet turned out. i wouldnt know why it happened as the intrenet was mainstream about 2010's but it feels like the whole internet forget the lessons we learned way early.
 
Syntaxion12 said:
I don't even know exactly how it happened. One day redditors were against internet censorship and corporations, then a few years later they're banning everyone for wrongthink and netflix, facebook, nike and mcdonalds became progressive and good.
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I remember that change happening much quicker. In about August 2016 /r/politics flipped from being pro-Bernie to hard-line Hillary and suddenly misogynistic "bernie-bro" trolls were everywhere.
It was the most blatent and obvious astroturfing I'd seen on Reddit like they didn't try and hide it.
 
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I remember that change happening much quicker. In about August 2016 /r/politics flipped from being pro-Bernie to hard-line Hillary and suddenly misogynistic "bernie-bro" trolls were everywhere.
It was the most blatent and obvious astroturfing I'd seen on Reddit like they didn't try and hide it.
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That's because ShareBlue bought the mod rights to r/politics for $2.7 million dollars.
 
ditto said:
I remember that change happening much quicker. In about August 2016 /r/politics flipped from being pro-Bernie to hard-line Hillary and suddenly misogynistic "bernie-bro" trolls were everywhere.
It was the most blatent and obvious astroturfing I'd seen on Reddit like they didn't try and hide it.
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The funny thing is, even after that point you could see when the ShareBlue shills went home for the weekend, because the astroturfing would cease until the following Monday.
 
Honestly the dead internet theory seems to be partially correct.
I will have to read it again and keep it in mind next time I go on reddit.

Don't worry I wear a quadruple mask when going on reddit
 
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