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I wouldn't consider the new redditors normal. They are highly radicalized, highly emotional, highly active on the internet, and extremely motivated to ban anyon
by swebs 6y ago
I wouldn't consider the new redditors normal. They are highly radicalized, highly emotional, highly active on the internet, and extremely motivated to ban anyone who dissents. Its exactly the same as the Tumblr population before Tumblr died.
- choeger 6y agoThat's not true! I will report you for spreading such misinformation! Your account should be blocked!
- kkoncevicius 6y agoThis was on the top of reddit yesterday: https://www.reddit.com/r/WhitePeopleTwitter/comments/ls6l54/he_was_asking_for_it/ https://www.reddit.com/r/WhitePeopleTwitter/comments/ls6l54/... I think this post is a good summary of what new reddit has become. Both the content and the comments within.
- seibelj 6y agoTo be fair, many posts are also about pumping stock in a mediocre mall-based video game retailer to get rich quickly.
- vimy 6y agoI wonder how many of those users are actual people and how many are Russian or Chinese agents trying to exploit this illiberal movement that seems to be sweeping the West.
- rurban 6y agoLook more like US agents to me. Only rarely I encounter the St Petersburg FSB Trollfarm, and then they were immediately recognizable as such.
- BoiledCabbage 6y agoTo be clear, your logic here is on Russian trolls is: There are no people hiding because I rarely see them any more. As in they've lost their motive to hide which seems pretty implausible. Or the alternative would be you don't see them easily because after years of practice hiding they've gotten better at it. The latter seems more likely.
- HDMI_Cable 6y agoI'm just wondering, how do you spot these agents? For me, even though I know there's astroturfing going on, I can never spot them.
- rurban 6y agoSee e.g. https://old.reddit.com/r/IntelligenceNews/ https://old.reddit.com/r/IntelligenceNews/
- ourlordcaffeine 6y agoReddit has a bunch of conspiracy theories flying about, being spread by the very people who claim not to be vulnerable to conspiracies and misinformation.
- 2OEH8eoCRo0 6y agoI'm convinced the "epstein didn't kill himself" meme/conspiracy theory is foreign backed. It's not funny, sows discord, and spread unusually quick.
- knolax 6y agoIt is funny and it spreads fast because it's the first thing most people think in a high profile suicide like this.
- 2OEH8eoCRo0 6y agoMy main point was that it is a meme/conspiracy theory that people who don't think they fall for conspiracy theories have fallen for big time.
- swebs 6y agoI've been sent quite a few of them from real life friends and thought they were pretty funny. People in general don't want child molesters to evade the law just because they're rich or powerful politicians.
- 420codebro 6y agoYeah everything that doesn’t play into your cute world view is foreign backed. Yawn.
- barry-cotter 6y agoTumblr didn’t die, it was killed. Not intentionally but by idiocy.
- swiley 6y agoThey've optimized for the most impressionable and vulnerable people. It's probably very profitable for an ad driven site but it kills the community.