The censorship on reddit is really off the charts. Admins will freely ban people for comments they don't like or agree with. You don't even have break any rules. Then you have the automatic censorship done by bots or whatever. An amazing number of comments and submissions basically get shadow banned or automatically removed. Literally the only people left are the far left people and women who love abortion.
In what I think is a strange twist, I think r/conspiracy is now reporting accurate numbers. That is, 2.1M members and <500 online at any given time. I think that may be real.
There were times in the recent past when in the middle of the night for the US, it would report 70K active users. I never thought that was real, but neither did I think it was bots upvoting and downvoting according to the Establishment. Then and now, a highly upvoted post will only get 2K or so.
Yeah, sad to see. It still looks active but a ton of the posts (I'd say 30-40%) are from a certain new type of astroturf account.
It's very thinly disguised post after post from the same handful of users with "Israel sucks... just like Trump", and "Hillary sucks... just like Trump", and "The WEF sucks... just like Trump". Not quite that bad but not much more sophisticated. Half of it we all know already so it does no more damage, and half is what we're supposed to swallow along with the bait.
They never came back from the blackout. It's very obvious they're using bots, and they're still not close. Many of my hobbies just left the site altogether.
It was grand. Fuck Spez
The censorship on reddit is really off the charts. Admins will freely ban people for comments they don't like or agree with. You don't even have break any rules. Then you have the automatic censorship done by bots or whatever. An amazing number of comments and submissions basically get shadow banned or automatically removed. Literally the only people left are the far left people and women who love abortion.
Stopped using Reddit a year ago, the alternatives are now better. No need to put up with communist scum any more.
care to give some hints where to look for alternatives?
You are on one of them now. Also take a look at lemmy, it is a federated reddit with a lot of users. Avoid joining communist instances.
Such as GreatAwakening, TheDonald, NoNewNormal, MGTOW, etc.
In what I think is a strange twist, I think r/conspiracy is now reporting accurate numbers. That is, 2.1M members and <500 online at any given time. I think that may be real.
There were times in the recent past when in the middle of the night for the US, it would report 70K active users. I never thought that was real, but neither did I think it was bots upvoting and downvoting according to the Establishment. Then and now, a highly upvoted post will only get 2K or so.
I guess a good number of those accounts are inactive or completely dead.
Yeah, sad to see. It still looks active but a ton of the posts (I'd say 30-40%) are from a certain new type of astroturf account.
It's very thinly disguised post after post from the same handful of users with "Israel sucks... just like Trump", and "Hillary sucks... just like Trump", and "The WEF sucks... just like Trump". Not quite that bad but not much more sophisticated. Half of it we all know already so it does no more damage, and half is what we're supposed to swallow along with the bait.
Also the throwaways. The old accounts are suspended...now it's hard to comment as a returning user...so they won't grow either.
That used to be the only place I went. Now I don't go. At all.
The IPO was a sign it was dead.
They used it to train openAI....that was it's purpose and then to divide and segregate and allow for false mods to silence the communities.
The swan song was the IPO. The last ditch effort to escape a sinking ship and pawn it off onto commoners.
They never came back from the blackout. It's very obvious they're using bots, and they're still not close. Many of my hobbies just left the site altogether.
Why would the bots turn off? What incentive would there be?
Shareholder Snoop Dogg on life support
I wish