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Maybe the reddit of 2016 was more manipulated? How would you tell the difference between new manipulation and change of manipulation?
by creato 6y ago
Maybe the reddit of 2016 was more manipulated? How would you tell the difference between new manipulation and change of manipulation?
- nilkn 6y agoThat's really simple in this case. The space of expressible opinions has been strictly contracted. If it had shifted in some other more complex way then I think you could have a point. In this case though the contraction was very clear, rapid, and enforced through a variety of visible and prominent site-level changes (e.g., introducing extreme quarantines or bans of many subreddits or re-engineering the frontpage to hide content [like introducing r/popular, which selectively only shows certain political content]).