When did reddit shift from free thought to obedience and boot licking corporations for “vaccines”?
(media.kotakuinaction2.win)
You're viewing a single comment thread. View all comments, or full comment thread.
Comments (57)
sorted by:
Definitely after Aaron Swartz sold it but can't say how long after till it started to rot..
Reddit was always rotting - the scoring is the original sin - but at the start new, still sane users outpaced the infection.
If you want an inflection point it was when they removed up/down vote scores and made only the final tally visible. This was 2014, a year and a half after Swartz offed himself, but I think that's a coincidence and he had no power to stop it.
When you read a comment has 500 upvotes and 400 downvotes you think okay that's a slight majority but when you see +100 votes you think everybody super agrees. Same with downvotes. This drives a hivemind and you only need to tweak a few scores here and there to make it believe anything you want.
I always used relay for reddit, and I always saw those. Same with sorting by new, downvotes never hid anything. That's why they push their app so hard. Not just datamining, they control the environment.