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[–] [email protected] 109 points 1 year ago (3 children)

nobody doubted that the worst of reddit would take over after we left

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[–] LetterboxPancake 101 points 1 year ago (13 children)

Hey, you don't see me complaining they stay there and don't migrate to Lemmy. I'm pretty fine with that.

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[–] [email protected] 92 points 1 year ago (3 children)

What if, and hear me out on this, you go and start posting a bunch of ai images of trump sucking Putin off. Just a thought.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'd have to go back to spez's teat to do that. I'm no fooking kneeler

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 year ago (9 children)

the entirety of reddit is leaking mate

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[–] [email protected] 81 points 1 year ago (2 children)

feel free to shit post starting tomorrow

It's funny because they're implying that the whole sub isn't just shitposts to begin with.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What?!? You don’t think a link to a youtube channel with a Roman bust as their avatar screeching about β€œmuh collapse of western society” is a valuable contribution?!?

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[–] [email protected] 67 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Boots ain't gonna lick themselves...

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[–] [email protected] 66 points 1 year ago (6 children)

They won't leave a single boot unlicked

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[–] [email protected] 64 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Someone throw a padlock on that group to keep them in Reddit.

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[–] [email protected] 61 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For a brief period of time I was on a place on Reddit where new users could get help finding their way around the site.

Someone shows up there and says, "I'm not sure why I'm even on this libt++d communist site, nobody here will respect the way any good conservative American thinks."

I'm thinking, OK, snowflake, don't melt so hard from being a victim, but I responded with, "You might try /r/Conservative, and I can ask their moderators if they have any other suggestions."

I did so: I sent the moderators of /r/Conservative a message explaining what I was looking for and asking for any advice they might have for this new user. The response I got back was, "LOL, F+++ off."

Lovely, lovely people there.

(100% that good conservative American was on the libt++d communist site for the free porn.)

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

Yeah I tried a few good faith attempts there. People would post asking why there was "no evidence of x" or why "this has never happened" or why "liberals are too afraid to answer y". So I'd link a news article, or a summary of the argument they were asking about.

I think I ended up getting 6 different accounts banned before I gave up.

edit: Also kind of funny how often they'd brag about never banning anyone, while being one of the most ban-happy subs on the platform.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago

I had something similar happen to me in r/republican. Pre-Trump, it actually wasn't a bad subreddit. You could have relatively civil discussions in there. I often used it to see and ask how Republicans/Conservatives thought about various things. I always tried to be respectful, understanding that that the wasn't "my sub." I flaired myself with a 'D' or something so it'd be obvious that I wasn't hiding and trolling. Had some OK discussions in there the few times I'd dare to chime in.

But it changed once Trump started running. I once was having a civil discussion with a user, trying to understand their take, and ended up linking to an article from a large, mainstream publication, to show what I was talking about.

I was banned with no comment. When I politely asked mods what I did wrong and if I could be unbanned if I promised to not do whatever I did again, I got the message: "Don't link liberal sources." And it wasn't a liberal source! Just something not from Fox or wherever. From then on, I could lurk, but I could never comment.

And the mods got crazier. I'd see that they'd remove comments and ban anyone, even Republicans, who spoke out against Trump. At that point, there was no reason to go there anymore.

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[–] [email protected] 57 points 1 year ago (14 children)

Is there a reason why they're doing this? Blackout's not even political. They just want to be contrarian to everything.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Soort of. Despite being over a million subs for about a year now (maybe more or less, I forget), they try to push the narrative that they are complete Reddit outcasts and are treated unfavorably compared to other political subs. I wouldn't be surprised if they see this as their way of becoming the predominant political sub on the site now that Reddit is falling apart.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago

Not allowing unfettered corporate greed to ruin things is leftist propaganda!

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[–] [email protected] 56 points 1 year ago (11 children)

I don't understand the mentality behind this. Is it just a case of "They're doing a thing so we'll do the opposite"? What exactly is the goal here?

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago

That's pretty much been the entire conservative movement's MO for 30 years now.

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[–] [email protected] 54 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

so basically, "we mods are boycotting but we can't act like we actually agree with the other protests."

typical conservative contrarian bullshit as always.

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[–] [email protected] 52 points 1 year ago (3 children)

So a corporate douche CEO wants to screw over their own userbase in the name of money alone and they are 100% onboard with opposing the boycott/protest...

...but are perfectly fine harassing and threatening stock workers at Target over Pride Month displays, outright absurd-levels of "boycotting" because of a limited-edition can with Bud Light, and the whole Chick-Fil-A DEI hire?

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nothing says conservative like being happy about big and sudden changes.

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well, you don't need third party apps with good moderation tools if you just don't moderate anything. /s

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

R/Conservative does moderate. They ban anyone who even whispers anything slightly against their political views. Even if it's quoting Trump himself.

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 year ago (4 children)

This is exactly what happened to DIGG* and what's currently happening to twitter.

Conservatives get beaten down by the vast majority of users and get a chip on their shoulder. Then as the site starts to die and the users move elsewhere conservatives jump on the sinking ship and declare their the new captain. They start drilling holes in the sinking ship cause theres nkthing else to do, and eventually realize the echo chamber sucks and then move on to the other social networks that everyone else went to, and the process repeats.

I hope with federation that the cycle doesn't repeat but we'll see.

  • DIGG made their big DIGG 4.0 change to overhaul the algorithm because it was being gamed and brigaded by members of conservative forums at the time. It just so happened they did it with a user interface overhaul. For a while, after most everyone moved to reddit, the top posts were mostly conservative stuff.
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[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 year ago

Always needing to be the contrarian, no matter the subject or how it may hurt them as well.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 year ago (11 children)

Oh my, if they were really brave they would un-ban all the supposed liberals that ever slightly ruffled their feathers.

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I wonder, will it be actual shitposting or will it just be them dropping the mask and calling that shitposting

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

It’s gonna be this. You will see the most racist and hideous stuff. And when called out β€žmuh free speechβ€œ.

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Typical conservatives. Everyone else is fighting for the greater good and they've opted to selfish children.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's so obvious that they are going for a traffic grab. The message is basically "post stuff that maximizes reach and doesn't scare off randoms". There are subs that decided to address the problem, subs that ignore the problem and then there is r/conservative who try to take advantage of the problem. So fitting.

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

/r/conservative tomorrow be like

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago (6 children)

One would think that a platform killing third party apps and forcing consolidation of users into their app would set some alarms off in the minds of the "we freedom oorah come and take it" party. Unfortunately they don't even pretend to match the branding on the tin.

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago (3 children)

So… a bunch of hateful, ignorant jerks are going to be even more obnoxious than usual? And they think that’s a good thing?

If the blackouts aren’t enough to drive people away, this will. Congratulations, reddit! You’re getting the user base you deserve!

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yep, seeing /r/conservative at the top or /r/all was enough to convince me to just close Reddit completely.

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Oh nice, good to see r/conservative doing their absolute best to get people to avoid Reddit.

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

so i did cave in and open https://libreddit.kavin.rocks/conservative/new and i promise you all, if this was an ironic subreddit, i would've pinned this to my browser.

it's just too goofy right now and they're all so proud, i cant help but love it.

i hope they continue to "conserve" reddit LOL. @bumblefumble said it best:

"Nothing says conservative like being happy about big and sudden changes."

EDIT: replaced link with libreddit alternative

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Conservatives... More like contrarians.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Conservative ego is so easy to make a plaything of. What a bunch of blind lemmings.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago

The enshittification of reddit.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Since when were they against shitposts?

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