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• fern@lemmy.autism.place ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I do remember that, and I remember them half-assing the Donald by just letting them make a new sub (or overrun conspiracy irrc)

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  • Zipitydew@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yeah they immediately took over Conspiracy and consolidated the hold on Conservative. Made me really sad as conspiracy used to have some incredible rabbit hole posts. Then one day it was just TD all over again.

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    • grue@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      IIRC, the fun conspiracists moved to r/high_strangeness or something like that.

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      • imaqtpie@lemmy.myserv.one ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        That sub is trash also. I think the whole conspiracy theorist subculture has been taken over by the alt right and is highly politicized at this point.

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      • USSMojave@startrek.website ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Do you know if there’s a Lemmy version?

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• BakerBagel@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The_Donald was dead amd had migrated to a non-reddit forum a month before the ban. It was typical “both sides” bullshit from a dude who always uses the kiddy gloves with fascists while throwing the book at any leftists

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• TheOubliette@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  They were banned while saying John Brown did nothing wrong and that slaveowners deserve to die.

  Sounds pretty cool to me.

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  • Zipitydew@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    While true there was a lot more behind the decision than that final post. They had been fighting with the admins for a long time.

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    • TheOubliette@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      There actually isn’t any such logic presented for the decision. Mostly just allusions to celebrating violence, the only examples of which were the anti-slavery posts I referenced.

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      • Zipitydew@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Maybe because you didn’t observe it happening. Reddit admins were busy as hell cleaning the place up. All kinds of rightwing subs like some of the incel gathering spots. Some for straight up Nazis like frenworld or whatever it was where they were using honk honk as code for heil Hitler. When the admins made site changes due to complaints about right wing subs, Chapo made the list because they engaged in similar activities with the main complaint being brigading other subs. Their mods refused to change to meet the new rules. The admins eventually removed some of the mods. They still refused to change afterward. Which eventually got them shut down.

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    • TraitorToAmerica@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      evidence? I see people say this but from what I remember the mod team was repeatedly stonewalled by the admins, or at least that was their claims, and I don’t think the admins ever disputed that

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      • Zipitydew@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Hardly, the mods kept refusing to do anything about the brigading of other subs. To the point the admins stepped in and removed a couple of them. Then afterward the sub decided they’d rather go private than comply. At this point most of back and forth is wiped out because the sub is locked. But there was far more going on for a while than their claim that one post shut them down immediately. They had already been in trouble for a couple months.

        reddit.com/…/chapotraphouse_gets_a_call_from_the_…

        www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%…

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• alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The Donald had largely abandoned the sub well before it was banned though.

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  • Zipitydew@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Largely because they moved to different subs.

    The Chapo crew didn’t want to calm down with all the threats of violence and other ridiculous antics. So they left completely.

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    • alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Threats of violence against confederate slave owners.

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      • Cowbee@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Speaking of, John Brown was right.

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      • Zipitydew@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        TIL Reddit admins were confederate slavers

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• Saint_La_Croix_Crosse@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  No, The Donald was encouraging political violence and was becoming a legal liability for Reddit to continue hosting. But they needed to ban a major left wing subreddit at the same time to do a “both sides bad” thing and preempt the fascist talking points about social media having a liberal bias.

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