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Comment on Homeland Security Spying on Reddit Users

OctopusNemeses@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

Reddit is State Department agitprop. This leak is probably a tiny fraction of their operations on reddit.

It’s crazy how success that platform is because nobody suspects it. Redditors all hate the other social media platforms. They cannot fathom that reddit is just as bad or worse.

But why is that. Is it the illusion of control. Because ostensibly its a user curated site. Because they think they have voting power. All of these things have proven to be completely false time and again. Yet the illusion of reddit persists.

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NewSocialWhoDis@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
While I agree that Reddit is awash in (multiple) state propaganda, and that posting violent rhetoric there is likely to put you on a list (or multiple), I don’t think Reddit users really trust it’s that safe. In the last year and a half, since Luigi, there has been huge amounts of bitterness over the censorship of content and strict banning policies. People have discussed, and followed through on, leaving on droves. Give amounts of old content are no longer available because people scrubbed their post history on the way out.

If the current discourse doesn’t reflect that, I would suffer it’s because :

the real people still there remain to discuss uncontroversial niche topics

political discussion there is largely driven by bots and paid actors now
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- BanMe@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  It’s an addiction just like any other social media site, being cut off from the supplier is one of a few ways to end addiction, so I’ve appreciated their ban-happiness lately (for myself included).
  
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  - RalfWausE@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    Also, blocking it entirely in your browser / firewall can do wonders in keeping one from relapsing… helped me personaly a lot.
    
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Felis_Rex@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
The user interactionetrics they’ve added have been interesting tho. Millions of south and SE Asians are flocking to reddit.

It’s been wild to watch how the site has grown over the past 15 years for me. Back durning trump’s first term I deleted my account and alts due to paranoia. I’m starting to think I should do the same for newer accounts or abandon the site entirely; hense my presence here.

I heard murmurs about Lemmy when the API shit was going down a few years ago but it was so small back then the switch didn’t really make sense for me. Now that the paranoia is back I don’t feel as comfortable/safe commenting on reddit anymore

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jungle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

Redditors all hate the other social media platforms.

What other examples of bullshit can you give us?

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SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Between reddit’s control freak mods, their selective enforcement of rules, their lack of mod behavior restrictions, ads made to look like postings, etc you have very little freedom outside of porn surprisingly. You have to stick to the groupthink in subs or get banned which makes most comments predictable, agreeable and milktoast.

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