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Reddit has long enjoyed a level of perceived subversiveness that helped it seem cool. It almost paradoxically seems that reddit has become too edgy for the main
by allemagne 10y ago
Reddit has long enjoyed a level of perceived subversiveness that helped it seem cool. It almost paradoxically seems that reddit has become too edgy for the mainstream by housing /r/The_Donald, and now way more Big Brother than subversive after this. If it has to embrace one philosophy going forward, it's going to get a lot more sanitized and will lose a lot of its original allure.
From the fact that those slack logs were leaked, and from reading their contents, there's some significant internal turmoil among Reddit admins that this has only enflamed further. They REALLY want to ban /r/The_Donald. They are extremely frustrated with spez.
Then if /u/spez resigns, the biggest advocate (ironically enough) for not banning /r/The_Donald will not be in the way anymore. Recognizing this, it's possible that spez stays on for the wild ride of banning T_D and then leaves it to the next CEO to run the new reddit husk.
I'm not sure how reddit ever worked, however. Maybe it'll survive this just fine.
- beedogs 10y agoIf reddit actually needs T_D in order to generate revenue, it's probably better off if it doesn't survive once they finally ban it.
- diggan 10y agoI'm curious, why do you find it good that a subreddit like r/the_donald gets banned?
- Daishiman 10y agoWhat would be particularly bad about banning it?
- rokosbasilisk 10y agoit will just evolve stronger. when 4chan banned gamergate it bleed over into twitter and reddit, and parts of it become the donald. The new alt-right is much stronger and diverse than people think due their filter bubble, and thats why this will become far worse no matter what anyone does.
- judahmeek 10y agoPerhaps, but it won't be anywhere near as active on reddit.
- diggan 10y agoNot sure, I don't feel either way, but I was explicitly asking why someone felt strongly about it.
- rtpg 10y agoMost decent content on Reddit isn't from stuff like T_D, it's from local subreddits, community subreddits, fan subreddits and the like. Just because these people are heavy users doesn't mean they're high value users. Clearly the opposite.
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