5mo ago

I couldn't completely get away from Reddit but isn't it interesting how people still BELIEVE the company / platform is on their side?

I've been seeing that a lot of Reddit communities are getting banned if they bad mouth Elon Musk. I was hoping that after the last Reddit exodus, folks would understand that that company, and any other that backs a major social media network — They don't care about what's going on.

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People are still on Twitter after he did a Nazi salute
- And they will, misinterpreting what he did as "actually not a Nazi salute."
  And in the same way, people in Reddit will keep misinterpreting admin actions as if the admins were on their side. I do think that they'll eventually leave, but because the site is not good for them any more - and they'll never notice that it isn't good any more because of those admins.
Routine is a helluva drug, especially when distractions are used to cope with the slow, general collapse of everything all around you.
The problem is that these old sources of information are poisoned and will be more so each passing day. The longer people keep Reddit and other compromised information sources as a part of their routine, the more the poison will creep in.
I think it's pretty likely that any comment on reddit that's talking about how good reddit is, is probably from a bot of some sort.
I have no particular evidence for that, but they've always embraced the bot economy. It was how reddit grew initially, with fake comments to make the site look busy and popular when it wasn't. At this point it's taken a lot more sinister turn, though, I feel like.
- For me this idea of using fake comments to make the site look more active is already sinister enough. It shows a platform willing to mislead people for its own interests.
  
  Yeah. Once you've opened the door, for whatever reason, all kinds of things can start to come through it.
I read one news about a community ban, and that was about calls to violence and doxxing over days, resulting in a temporary community ban. Not merely talking about Elon. I don't think that would be handled much differently on any other decent platform.
Have there been other instances of bans?
I don't think I would call interesting. I would call it depressing now.

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