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in reply to notreallyhere • • •objectorientedposter
in reply to notreallyhere • • •jimmy90
in reply to notreallyhere • • •nah reddit is fine for loads of things
better than lemmy in fact but then it has FOUR orders of magnitude more active users
Sarcasmo
in reply to Hubi • • •nymnympseudonym
in reply to Sarcasmo • • •Redlib FTW
Edit: current fork
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youmaynotknow
in reply to nymnympseudonym • • •BaconWrappedEnigma
in reply to youmaynotknow • • •GitHub - redlib-org/redlib: Private front-end for Reddit
GitHubyoumaynotknow
in reply to BaconWrappedEnigma • • •nymnympseudonym
in reply to BaconWrappedEnigma • • •TY my bad yes this is the one I use
Here is an instance that's up RN
lr.ptr.moe/
Redlib
lr.ptr.moechonglibloodsport
in reply to Sarcasmo • • •I find the usefulness of a subreddit is inversely proportional to its size (popularity). There are still some good ones but they are quite small.
I had hoped Lemmy would fill this void for me but it’s still too small overall such that the smallest communities are barely active at all. Thus I tend to just scroll the feed of everything and see what catches my eye, admittedly a much less useful way to spend my time since I get sucked into ragebait instead of discussing cool hobbies.
chaogomu
in reply to chonglibloodsport • • •Are you me? Because that's exactly what I've been doing. I set my default browse experience to Top 6 hour and then scroll All.
I do miss the community aspect of Reddit. There were other users who I ran into regularly in the comments. And usually not in a hostile way.
Hell, there was one sub where I was invited to the mod team because of those interactions. I did that for a couple years and continued to be active in the sub until Reddit start pissing off mods. That and my main "friend" on the mod team had his account nuked by Reddit after he fell for a troll.
Reddit removed every comment he had ever made, including wonderful and well cited rebuttals of the right-wing bigotry of the day.
So yeah, I logged out of that reddit account and have never logged back in, instead I use a burner account and try not comment on anything.
Serinus
in reply to chaogomu • • •Probably more of the motivation than the listed offense.
chaogomu
in reply to Serinus • • •Could have been. Reddit never actually told us anything. One of the other mods got a private message on another channel (discord maybe?) from the missing mod about it. But details were light, and the missing mod never even tried to return to Reddit. Said the ban was good for his mental health.
Then there was some Subreddit specific drama, and Reddit admins actually did the good thing. Then the API change, the blackout, and a couple other things that specifically fucked over mods. So I too, mostly left.
Serinus
in reply to chaogomu • • •chaogomu
in reply to Serinus • • •Kühlschrank
in reply to chonglibloodsport • • •scarabic
in reply to Sarcasmo • • •Someone should write a Reddit client that automatically hides the top two comments and all their children, because they’re inevitably stupid jokes that add nothing.
Oh right. No one can make new Reddit clients anymore.
dhork
in reply to Hubi • • •Reddit was one of the most human places on the Internet, until King Steven the Turd decided that it's human interactions were a valuable resource that he could sell.
Now, it's all just bots talking to bots to learn how to sound human.
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N0t_5ure
in reply to dhork • • •Null User Object
in reply to N0t_5ure • • •They're here, too.
I occasionally see comments to the effect of, "Oh, really? Can you tell me more about that?" That seem pretty likely to just be bots trying to generate data on certain topics for AI training. Thankfully, most people seem to ignore them.
Someonelol
in reply to Null User Object • • •Fuck. Am I a bot?
Null User Object
in reply to Someonelol • • •mozingo
in reply to Null User Object • • •Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In
in reply to mozingo • • •matsdis
in reply to Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In • • •Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In
in reply to matsdis • • •Only the more recent TV show. The original westworld film was more like Terminator.
I would pick blade runner as the classic bot / human confusion.
null_dot
in reply to Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In • • •Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In
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in reply to Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In • • •Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In
in reply to null_dot • • •Null User Object
in reply to mozingo • • •bless
in reply to Null User Object • • •Dutch actually
youtu.be/4VrLQXR7mKU 😀
“I’m Not a Robot” (2025 Academy Award Winner) | The New Yorker Screening Room
The New Yorker (YouTube)Null User Object
in reply to bless • • •AbidanYre
in reply to Null User Object • • •maccentric
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in reply to maccentric • • •mozingo
in reply to bless • • •bluesheep
in reply to bless • • •Bruh. I'm in the Netherlands.
bless
in reply to mozingo • • •Here you go
youtu.be/4VrLQXR7mKU
“I’m Not a Robot” (2025 Academy Award Winner) | The New Yorker Screening Room
The New Yorker (YouTube)Hackworth
in reply to mozingo • • •k0e3
in reply to Hackworth • • •VonReposti
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in reply to VonReposti • • •PrimeMinisterKeyes
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in reply to Null User Object • • •PissingIntoTheWind
in reply to N0t_5ure • • •dublet
in reply to dhork • • •a_non_monotonic_function
in reply to dhork • • •socsa
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in reply to emb • • •Usernameblankface
in reply to Hubi • • •Kokesh
in reply to Hubi • • •katy ✨
in reply to Hubi • • •spez is ruining reddit for everyone.
and venture capitalists.
ReallyActuallyFrankenstein
in reply to katy ✨ • • •Strider
in reply to katy ✨ • • •watson
in reply to Hubi • • •like this
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in reply to Hubi • • •like this
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cygnus
in reply to Hubi • • •GarbadgeGoober
in reply to Hubi • • •I am thankful for reddit becoming a mess and Trump made me ditch american companies anyway.
Otherwise I never would have discovered Lemmy.
WanderWisley
in reply to Hubi • • •etherphon
in reply to Hubi • • •chaogomu
in reply to etherphon • • •etherphon
in reply to chaogomu • • •chaogomu
in reply to etherphon • • •etherphon
in reply to chaogomu • • •y0kai [he/him]
in reply to Hubi • • •heyWhatsay
in reply to Hubi • • •CosmoNova
in reply to Hubi • • •Angry Anakin (Reddit): „You turned them against me!“
Obi-Wan: „You managed to do that yourself.“
Sibshops
in reply to Hubi • • •motor_spirit
in reply to Hubi • • •reddit was ruined by reddit
it's just evidence that the site went the way of social media and is saturated with people who circulate such things
Blackmist
in reply to Hubi • • •like this
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JensSpahnpasta
in reply to Hubi • • •lepinkainen
in reply to JensSpahnpasta • • •Repost bots should be built in to Reddit tbh
Just take whatever was the top 5 a year ago and repost it at the same time
Karma guaranteed
nert
in reply to lepinkainen • • •null_dot
in reply to nert • • •Lately there's been someone chopping chives every day and posting a photo of the result.
There was a bit of a drama when someone noticed that the same photo was reused from a couple of weeks back.
The poster said they didnt have time to do it that day but wanted to keep the streak so they just re-posted an old one hoping no one would notice.
It was just such an amazing and engaging sequence of events and I feel fulfilled having been able to follow this roller coaster of emotion /s.
nert
in reply to null_dot • • •Tynan
in reply to JensSpahnpasta • • •MyMindIsLikeAnOcean
in reply to JensSpahnpasta • • •We can absolutely blame AI for everything. The reason AI took over Reddit is because Reddit fired their human moderators in favour of AI moderation. It’s basically a vicious circle of bots learning how to avoid being banned, and auto moderation learning how they’re avoiding being banned…repeat.
…the obvious problem being that bots are valuable to Reddit because they increase real engagement…if there weren’t bots, Reddit would make its own bots to do basically the same thing. Reddit only wants to restrict bots to a certain proportion of the population, rather than eliminate them.
Lucidlethargy
in reply to Hubi • • •like this
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in reply to Hubi • • •like this
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panda_abyss
in reply to TomMasz • • •Letting gallowboob "moderate" the basically the whole front page was an insane decision. Some of those guys were selling product placement.
The centralization of power to few mods was always a problem, but smaller communities got by.
The huge quality drop came when Spez felt he missed the IPO wave around 2018 and decided to growth hack the site. Then they finally killed most of them too with the API drama.
Popular and moving away from hot to best was also bad. They horribly failed to discipline abuse from the_donald for years...
New reddit is still not even usable from a phone. It crashes frequently and i swaer to God it only shows like 8 posts and just fucking loops through them (how have thry not noticed this, I only check 4 subreddits and its unbearable).
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Hadriscus
in reply to panda_abyss • • •Korhaka
in reply to Hadriscus • • •😈MedicPig🐷BabySaver😈
in reply to Hubi • • •Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.
This is fine🔥🐶☕🔥
in reply to 😈MedicPig🐷BabySaver😈 • • •And fuck his weird teeth.
Gobbel2000
in reply to Hubi • • •SirMaple__
in reply to Hubi • • •Joelk111
in reply to SirMaple__ • • •kent_eh
in reply to Joelk111 • • •And if they do exist, there are 4 subscribers and zero posts in the last 6 months.
limelight79
in reply to kent_eh • • •k0e3
in reply to limelight79 • • •limelight79
in reply to k0e3 • • •frongt
in reply to Joelk111 • • •This is fine🔥🐶☕🔥
in reply to frongt • • •muusemuuse
in reply to Joelk111 • • •There’s also fun bullshit communities that refuse to migrate too. I listen to some of them on YouTube as they read the stories from there while I work on other things or drive.
I tried creating a community here but never got others to post their show too.
Cosmonauticus
in reply to Joelk111 • • •GenosseFlosse
in reply to Joelk111 • • •Joelk111
in reply to GenosseFlosse • • •Zirconium
in reply to GenosseFlosse • • •Korhaka
in reply to Joelk111 • • •「黃家駒 Wong Ka Kui」 | (aka: 鳳凰院 凶真 Hououin Kyouma)
in reply to SirMaple__ • • •Right now I don't have a reddit account and I just lurk there, but if I really wanted to talk about, say, a specific TV show I like, or a Movie, or Anime, or a Book... that would not exist on the fediverse. It's either just Reddit or maybe Discord.
If I wanna talk about stuff from a non-white perspective, the best place I'd really find my people outside the great firewall is Reddit.
I mean I the amount of Cantonese-speakers on Lemmy is like... single-digits
null_dot
in reply to SirMaple__ • • •I use redlib to lurk.
I find the drama subs like /r/AITAH entertaining. I know its all fake, but the groupthink responses are intriguing.
ristoril_zip
in reply to Hubi • • •coolmojo
in reply to ristoril_zip • • •The Velour Fog
in reply to Hubi • • •I regret wasting all those years trying to fight back all the bots I flagged on that hot garbage platform.
But I'm grateful that I gained skills on how to identify an LLM bot from a mile away.
Now that they're starting to creep in Lemmy, I'm prepared.
glowie
in reply to The Velour Fog • • •micka190
Unknown parent • • •- Bot spam
- Dead
WorldsDumbestMan
in reply to Hubi • • •nosuchanon
in reply to Hubi • • •Grass
in reply to Hubi • • •Psythik
in reply to Grass • • •PetteriPano
in reply to Grass • • •Stern
in reply to PetteriPano • • •That one always rung a big hollow to me because of the timeframe of it. At the time he was made a mod there, invites didn't exist. Folks could just be added to subs- it was actually a method for trolling. At the time, I could add Steve to r/SteveLovesDiddlingKids, for example, and he'd have no say in it. They changed it to an invite system after a subreddit called r/CrabBucket heavily abused it to force folks to stay.
That said, one can quite readily say that spez implicitly supported the jailbait subreddit when he left it up for several years knowingly (Including it being a subheader for reddit on google searches, and it getting nominated for subreddit of the year along with several votes for it.) and only got rid of it when Anderson Cooper did a report on CNN about it.
Ilovethebomb
in reply to Stern • • •That's absolutely hilarious.
Zak
in reply to Stern • • •spez did not work at reddit between 2009 and 2015.
Stern
in reply to Zak • • •Zak
in reply to Stern • • •I don't especially want to be in the position of defending either spez or r/jailbait, but I was on Reddit at the time and I do think I should explain how 2008 was a different time on the web.
There had been a number of attempts to censor and age-gate the internet in the late 1990s and early 2000s. People involved in creating internet tech and building its culture were almost universally against anything that even smelled like censorship. Much of the early userbase migrated from Digg in response to Digg censoring a leaked DRM key. The only sitewide rule on Reddit was "don't break Reddit".
When r/jailbait finally did get banned in 2011 and Reddit's first content policy was imposed, that decision was unpopular among Redditors even though most thought sexualizing young teenagers was disgusting. It signaled a change to what Reddit was, and people rightly feared that it would lead to significantly more restrictions. Now I have to enforce a rule on r/flashlight that people can't sell flashlights designed to be attached to guns, and I don't want to make or enforce such a rule.
bluesheep
in reply to Hubi • • •brucethemoose
in reply to bluesheep • • •For all the criticism of AI, this is the one that’s massively overstated.
On my PC, the task energy of a casual diffusion attempt (let’s say a dozen+ images in few batches) on a Flux-tier model is 300W * 240 seconds.
That’s 54 kilojoules.
…That’s less than microwaving leftovers, or a few folks browsing this Lemmy thread on laptops.
And cloud models like Nano Banana are more efficient than that, batching the heck out of generations on wider, more modern hardware, and more modern architectures, than my 3090 from 2020.
Look. There are a million reasons corporate AI is crap.
But its power consumption is a meme perpetuated by tech bros who want to convince the world scaling infinitely is the only way to advance it. That is a lie to get them money. And it is not the way research is headed.
Yes they are building too many data centers, and yes some in awful places, but that's part of the con. They don’t really need that, and making a few images is not burning someone’s water
... Show more...For all the criticism of AI, this is the one that’s massively overstated.
On my PC, the task energy of a casual diffusion attempt (let’s say a dozen+ images in few batches) on a Flux-tier model is 300W * 240 seconds.
That’s 54 kilojoules.
…That’s less than microwaving leftovers, or a few folks browsing this Lemmy thread on laptops.
And cloud models like Nano Banana are more efficient than that, batching the heck out of generations on wider, more modern hardware, and more modern architectures, than my 3090 from 2020.
Look. There are a million reasons corporate AI is crap.
But its power consumption is a meme perpetuated by tech bros who want to convince the world scaling infinitely is the only way to advance it. That is a lie to get them money. And it is not the way research is headed.
Yes they are building too many data centers, and yes some in awful places, but that's part of the con. They don’t really need that, and making a few images is not burning someone’s water away.
Sims
in reply to Hubi • • •It were already infested with Capitalist slop, marketing and propaganda. It was an market religious, propagandized garbagedump for a long long time before AI.. The sooner that Capitalist brain-rot disappears the better.
'AI slop' is just an extension of normal 'Capitalist slop' - garbage that have zero purpose outside a market battlefield..
kent_eh
in reply to Hubi • • •1hitsong
in reply to Hubi • • •bbb
in reply to Hubi • • •_stranger_
in reply to Hubi • • •LefterShark
in reply to Hubi • • •DSN9
in reply to LefterShark • • •aceshigh
in reply to LefterShark • • •treesquid
in reply to LefterShark • • •DeICEAmerica
in reply to Hubi • • •abbiistabbii
in reply to Hubi • • •Teknikal
in reply to Hubi • • •I thought the whole point of reddit was it was self moderating, downvotes slip from view but yeah after being banned for saying a word as offensive as Brexit and once again for saying a song title.
Yeah Reddit is garbage and the unneeded mods made it that way.
SocialMediaRefugee
in reply to Hubi • • •OctopusNemeses
in reply to Hubi • • •Journalism once again demonstrating they are about 10-15 years behind on the times. Did they forget reddit completely broke back in 2016 when the_donald left the place in a permanent troll state.
I'm not going to read the article on account of time right now but I'm guessing it's written as if reddit was invented yesterday and the prior 20 years of reddit history is didn't happen.
It hasn't been human since the early 2010s. Reddit was botted to death long before LLMs.
pleaseletmein
in reply to OctopusNemeses • • •DylanMc6 [any, any]
in reply to Hubi • • •wulrus
in reply to Hubi • • •poopkins
in reply to wulrus • • •mirshafie
in reply to poopkins • • •IronBird
in reply to mirshafie • • •you should feel ashamed but not for resembling an AI...
there is no reason to ever use a semicolon
Flic
in reply to IronBird • • •IronBird
in reply to Flic • • •kreskin
in reply to mirshafie • • •nutsack
in reply to Hubi • • •IndridCold
in reply to Hubi • • •Regrettable_incident
in reply to IndridCold • • •Asfalttikyntaja
in reply to IndridCold • • •peaceful_world_view
in reply to Hubi • • •fodor
in reply to Hubi • • •Alpha71
in reply to Hubi • • •tea
in reply to Alpha71 • • •nomy
in reply to tea • • •Az_1
in reply to Hubi • • •jali67
in reply to Hubi • • •deadbeef79000
in reply to Hubi • • •andallthat
in reply to deadbeef79000 • • •Yes it did. Making up variation of the same story in order to farm upvotes used to be done by humans.
But the strategy of throwing shit at the wall and see what sticks has now been industrialized with AI, because the machine can produce tons of cheaper, faster, smellier shit.
Reddit and generally socials are basically the perfect application for AI. Unreliable results are not a bug but a feature. You have thousands of humans helpfully training it for free by up or downvoting the result. And the AI companies get a machine trained to persuade large groups of people of any made-up story.
GenosseFlosse
in reply to andallthat • • •boolean_sledgehammer
in reply to deadbeef79000 • • •ragebutt
in reply to Hubi • • •Reddit was the playground for ai slop long before commercial LLMs existed. Subredditsimulator was like 2014 or 2015 and people were fucking with markov chains and other shit that dated back to like the 90s or even 70s but that also had some people experimenting with rudimentary neural networks, though obviously none with the computing power of shit like chatgpt or gemini. And obviously that whole experiment was inspired in part by the fact that botted comments were becoming increasingly common and obvious on reddit in the years leading to it, so why not make a subreddit where everyone participating is a bot?
There’s no proof but openai researchers may have been fucking around on that sub. There was a fairly drastic increase in quality of posts in that sub around the time openai would’ve been making gpt1 (2018ish) and then they began aggressively scraping the entirety of reddit, quora, etc for content. Could just be a coincidence though and they’ll never confirm it even if it’s true bc redditors will flip shit
Scrollone
in reply to ragebutt • • •Korhaka
in reply to ragebutt • • •AlolanYoda
in reply to ragebutt • • •pastermil
in reply to Hubi • • •GreenShimada
in reply to pastermil • • •LaunchesKayaks
in reply to GreenShimada • • •HappySkullsplitter
in reply to LaunchesKayaks • • •Oh, I've looked back. It's hard not to rubberneck at such a horrendous train wreck. Especially when I was just a passenger on that very train.
I left reddit during the great API massacre as well, then I went back to only be taken out by the great Trump massacre of '24 where they banned a huge chuck of the community that had any anti-trump sentiments in their profile history...because Trump threatened them.
Now I have been banned 6 more times, just by AI detecting language it doesn't like and its catalogue of dislike only continues to grow.
They pretend that humans are reviewing ban appeals, it is clear that they are not. The AI is banning more people than they could possibly keep up with. Now, more often than not, there is no reply to ban appeals whatsoever.
Spez is a spineless coward who threw the reddit community overboard a long time ago and continues to do so whenever it suits him. Reddit exists only to shit money for him now.
It has been left twisted and corrupted in favor of the conquest for money and controlling public opinion
I'll be bac
... Show more...Oh, I've looked back. It's hard not to rubberneck at such a horrendous train wreck. Especially when I was just a passenger on that very train.
I left reddit during the great API massacre as well, then I went back to only be taken out by the great Trump massacre of '24 where they banned a huge chuck of the community that had any anti-trump sentiments in their profile history...because Trump threatened them.
Now I have been banned 6 more times, just by AI detecting language it doesn't like and its catalogue of dislike only continues to grow.
They pretend that humans are reviewing ban appeals, it is clear that they are not. The AI is banning more people than they could possibly keep up with. Now, more often than not, there is no reply to ban appeals whatsoever.
Spez is a spineless coward who threw the reddit community overboard a long time ago and continues to do so whenever it suits him. Reddit exists only to shit money for him now.
It has been left twisted and corrupted in favor of the conquest for money and controlling public opinion
I'll be back to fight the good fight just as soon as I can create a new account and switch VPNs
edible_funk
in reply to HappySkullsplitter • • •GreenShimada
in reply to LaunchesKayaks • • •ibelieveinthehousehippo
in reply to GreenShimada • • •barnaclebutt
in reply to pastermil • • •h3rmit
in reply to pastermil • • •Yeah, after reading the article, it was like, oh, so the same fake stories but actually grammar corrected?
Also, most people who sre like "i have this tells tl detect AI" would not know at all whether something is AI or not lol
MyMindIsLikeAnOcean
in reply to pastermil • • •This is key.
If there weren’t bots…Reddit would make its own bots. Reddit dances a fine line of allowing the population to be a certain proportion of bots because they increase real engagement by picking fights with its real users, as well as creating never-ending “content” for people to read and vote on. They only ban bots when real users notice they are bots - which is less and less frequently - even though Reddit has the tools and information to ban them long before that point.
Reddit could easy eliminate almost all of them, but that would be expensive and they’d lose real users as a result.
pastermil
in reply to MyMindIsLikeAnOcean • • •Exactly. This is like blaming rats and cockroaches for dirty town.
No, they won't be there (as much) in a cleaner town.
Shanmugha
in reply to Hubi • • •super_user_do
in reply to Hubi • • •HugeNerd
in reply to Hubi • • •Minimac
in reply to Hubi • • •BuckenBerry
in reply to Minimac • • •ekZepp
in reply to BuckenBerry • • •87Six
in reply to BuckenBerry • • •Tattorack
in reply to Hubi • • •Yeah, I've noticed an uptic of AI generated content being posted outside the AI circle jerk subreddits. Places like the AoE4 and Bionicle subreddits have had quite a number of AI posts already.
Theyve become too courageous, with others going out of the way to defend the use of generative AI with weak arguments like "but cars also steal jobs".
The one subreddit that I've seen have a healthy response against AI generated content is the Bionicle subreddit. Doesn't really surprise me as the Bionicle community is full of creatives.
pulsey
in reply to Tattorack • • •"stealing jobs" is a weak argument itself, that can always happen with new technology.
The real argument is that people create something uncreative and unthoughtful and therefore slop. AI doesnt make uncreative people creative.
ekZepp
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in reply to falseWhite • • •Victor
in reply to falseWhite • • •Yeah AI had nothing to do with it. Ruined waaay before AI took hold. That's why I left.
The UI was becoming unusable, the policies were unreasonable, the greed got to them, etc, etc.
RememberTheApollo_
in reply to falseWhite • • •MyMindIsLikeAnOcean
in reply to Hubi • • •Let’s be real…Reddit itself is moderated by AI.
People who moderate subs should be called “hall monitors” or something. It’s rare to find moderators who are actually moderating with impartiality, rather that being petty and taking sides. They also have tools to exploit the Reddit auto-mod system.
It was enshitified ages ago.
forkDestroyer
in reply to MyMindIsLikeAnOcean • • •There's no point in taking moderation seriously. It's a volunteer position and the tools to handle slop aren't there.
I hear they're bringing back digg.
I also hear it's a former Reddit C-suite that's bringing it back, so it'll probably be more of the same.
Framptonian
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in reply to NewNewAugustEast • • •Agreed. And this has taught us some things about communication. About how it works when it's hooked up with capitalism, government and/or the general population.
I personally think it works better without that stuff.
tym
in reply to Hubi • • •like this
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notgivingmynametoamachine
in reply to Hubi • • •Nazi sympathizing has already ruined Reddit.
That shithole has been sanitized for advertisers, which means banning anyone who talks about resisting the fascist slide America is currently in but allows /r/conservative to exist for foreign actors to spread misinformation from.
Fuck Reddit, fuck Spez, those Nazi fucks will get what’s coming to them if we’re lucky.