Reddit has gotten so bad. It’s an echo chamber on everything not just politics. I made the mistake of posting something last year in one of the very few times I visited. Not political in the slightest but a different than the popular opinion. Not rude, just some polite logic. Myself and the one other who responded with “oh yeah what you’re saying makes sense” got railed and downvoted to the point I hit some sort of auto ban threshold.
They are only going to make themselves worse. You can already only parrot the consensus opinion there as it is.
Yeah, I have a burner account I can't use because it doesn't have the "required karma" to participate in basically every subreddit. You make one controversial comment and you're effectively shadowbanned.
They're in such a bubble that they literally cannot perceive reality. Then something like the 2024 election happens and they have a total meltdown because they just can't understand how it happened.
There was a post on r/askmen back in like 2015 that was titled something like "what is your true unpopular opinion?". Every single one of the comments except for one was an opinion that was safe, popular, and lined up with redditor beliefs.
That one opinion that differed was this: "I don't believe women are capable of actually loving a man" followed by some anecdote and a few stats. The guy that posted it was, to reiterate, the only person to actually follow the directions of the post.
That guy not only got like, I think 1200 downvotes, but had a bunch of soyboys telling him to commit suicide, all because of his opinion, which he even stated in his comment was just that, an opinion, not a measurable fact.
This was back in 2015, before Correct The Record took over the site. It has only gotten worse.
Edit: I found the post but the comment was deleted. There was exactly one archive on the wayback machine but it was after the comment got deleted.
I stopped posting on KIA2 itself on reddit when I posted something slightly against the prevailing narrative of the thread, and just got dozens of people repeating the same wrong but buzzword laden comment at me. All of which you could tell they got from their favorite youtube video influencer.
So its not even Leftism itself, its just people on reddit in general.
The only reason Reddit is still relevant is the artificial boost from adding "reddit" to the end of a search query being the only remaining way to find human discussion of a topic.
Somehow Reddit managed to get even more insane than after Trump won in 2016.
Trump's first day in office shattered their minds.
That most Americans are happy with what Leftists deem the most unforgivable of Trump's policies ( shutting the border, deportations, no more troon insanity ), is making them go turbo retard.
Control of social media platforms such as Twitter was part of Democrats plan to secure power and control so that 2016 could never happen again. But then Democrats interfered with Musk's buisness and pissed him of, and he bought Twitter and fucked-up their insider privileges in the platform with the Deep State.
So they are lashing out at Twitter. Musk's ''my heart goes to all of you'' chest and arm salute is just a focus point for attacking Twitter.
I firmly believe that was what he was doing. They however do not understand that even if he was doing a Roman salute, a very good percentage of people do. not. give. a. shit.
Somehow Reddit managed to get even more insane than after Trump won in 2016. Trump's first day in office shattered their minds.
I still firmly believe it is because of the popular vote win that that happened. In 2016, they could at least tell themselves that Trump supporters were a minority, he only won because of the Electoral College, they would crush this weird fluke of a win and be on the path to their progressive future, etc. This was then further reinforced by 2020 and them gaining ultimate power, which they then proceeded to have a government that did everything they ever could have wanted.
Then 2024 happens, Trump wins the popular vote, gains in damn near every demographic, and based on polling even after the election shows Trump and his beliefs only getting more popular, even with young people.
So they see everything they have ever believed going up in smoke, their heads ripped out of the sand to see the real world for what it is, and that they are actually the ones who were the fluke. So they resort to the only thing they can: impotently raging at anything and everything they can see.
The usual suspects claimed Elon Musk's policy changes ( like firing 80% of the staff, largely eliminating woke content curators ) in Twitter would destroy the platform.
He bought it in 2022. Look at the trend the following years.
Kind of like DEI consultant firms telling games studios if they don't hire them and let wokeness dictate content and codes of conduct they will not survive.
Sadly censorship has been creeping back up on Twitter since then.
I'm out of the loop on Reddit. Have the Reddit admins banned X links or is there some "totally organic" campaign by a couple of activist mods that control all major subreddits?
You could essentially call it 90% of Reddit. Even the anime subreddit for OnePiece is blocking X links. I saw some other obscure subreddits as well. And they also all say ‘No politics’ in the rules but let that go because we are fighting Nazis don’t you know!?!?
It’s “totally organic”. It’s the same people posting it in radically different subs which then gets botted up to become the most upvoted thing in the sub of all time.
In the interest of fairness, back links says X users fell in 2023, and has no data for 2024 (when Brazil banned them) https://backlinko.com/twitter-users
It'll probably go up with less of the groups from Reddit picking out X users to attack, Reddit use will slide down as they'll start targeting each other instead..
Maybe a smidge. I suspect it'll hurt RDDT more, though. I'm guessing the admins will let the mentally ill mods run amok for a couple weeks and then bring down the hammer to allow X links again.
I think it will hurt reddit a lot more than it will hurt x. Reddit will become even more insular and weird.
Reddit has gotten so bad. It’s an echo chamber on everything not just politics. I made the mistake of posting something last year in one of the very few times I visited. Not political in the slightest but a different than the popular opinion. Not rude, just some polite logic. Myself and the one other who responded with “oh yeah what you’re saying makes sense” got railed and downvoted to the point I hit some sort of auto ban threshold.
They are only going to make themselves worse. You can already only parrot the consensus opinion there as it is.
Bluesky is that way too.
bluesky is twitter, but with Redditards.
Don't forget musk and his very real nazi salute that's not hallucinatory at all.
Yeah, I have a burner account I can't use because it doesn't have the "required karma" to participate in basically every subreddit. You make one controversial comment and you're effectively shadowbanned.
They're in such a bubble that they literally cannot perceive reality. Then something like the 2024 election happens and they have a total meltdown because they just can't understand how it happened.
There was a post on r/askmen back in like 2015 that was titled something like "what is your true unpopular opinion?". Every single one of the comments except for one was an opinion that was safe, popular, and lined up with redditor beliefs.
That one opinion that differed was this: "I don't believe women are capable of actually loving a man" followed by some anecdote and a few stats. The guy that posted it was, to reiterate, the only person to actually follow the directions of the post.
That guy not only got like, I think 1200 downvotes, but had a bunch of soyboys telling him to commit suicide, all because of his opinion, which he even stated in his comment was just that, an opinion, not a measurable fact.
This was back in 2015, before Correct The Record took over the site. It has only gotten worse.
Edit: I found the post but the comment was deleted. There was exactly one archive on the wayback machine but it was after the comment got deleted.
Sort by controversial to find the real unpopular opinions.
I stopped posting on KIA2 itself on reddit when I posted something slightly against the prevailing narrative of the thread, and just got dozens of people repeating the same wrong but buzzword laden comment at me. All of which you could tell they got from their favorite youtube video influencer.
So its not even Leftism itself, its just people on reddit in general.
The only reason Reddit is still relevant is the artificial boost from adding "reddit" to the end of a search query being the only remaining way to find human discussion of a topic.
Even the fucking AI just references reddit comments.
They're really trying to make Reddit too big to fail while Reddit jannies are doing everything they possibly can to destroy it at the same time.
What it means in reality is reddit will become a bunch of twitter screenshots.
Somehow Reddit managed to get even more insane than after Trump won in 2016.
Trump's first day in office shattered their minds.
That most Americans are happy with what Leftists deem the most unforgivable of Trump's policies ( shutting the border, deportations, no more troon insanity ), is making them go turbo retard.
Control of social media platforms such as Twitter was part of Democrats plan to secure power and control so that 2016 could never happen again. But then Democrats interfered with Musk's buisness and pissed him of, and he bought Twitter and fucked-up their insider privileges in the platform with the Deep State.
So they are lashing out at Twitter. Musk's ''my heart goes to all of you'' chest and arm salute is just a focus point for attacking Twitter.
I firmly believe that was what he was doing. They however do not understand that even if he was doing a Roman salute, a very good percentage of people do. not. give. a. shit.
Cry wolf all you want.
I still firmly believe it is because of the popular vote win that that happened. In 2016, they could at least tell themselves that Trump supporters were a minority, he only won because of the Electoral College, they would crush this weird fluke of a win and be on the path to their progressive future, etc. This was then further reinforced by 2020 and them gaining ultimate power, which they then proceeded to have a government that did everything they ever could have wanted.
Then 2024 happens, Trump wins the popular vote, gains in damn near every demographic, and based on polling even after the election shows Trump and his beliefs only getting more popular, even with young people.
So they see everything they have ever believed going up in smoke, their heads ripped out of the sand to see the real world for what it is, and that they are actually the ones who were the fluke. So they resort to the only thing they can: impotently raging at anything and everything they can see.
most of reddit's traffic is bots so no
The usual suspects claimed Elon Musk's policy changes ( like firing 80% of the staff, largely eliminating woke content curators ) in Twitter would destroy the platform.
He bought it in 2022. Look at the trend the following years.
Kind of like DEI consultant firms telling games studios if they don't hire them and let wokeness dictate content and codes of conduct they will not survive.
Sadly censorship has been creeping back up on Twitter since then.
They repeatedly claimed the platform would be dead.
I'm out of the loop on Reddit. Have the Reddit admins banned X links or is there some "totally organic" campaign by a couple of activist mods that control all major subreddits?
Know Your Meme: 92 of top 500 subreddits are controlled by 4 mods
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the trannies are getting uppity
Yeah I made a very small joke and got banned again. It said it was an AI ban though.
You could essentially call it 90% of Reddit. Even the anime subreddit for OnePiece is blocking X links. I saw some other obscure subreddits as well. And they also all say ‘No politics’ in the rules but let that go because we are fighting Nazis don’t you know!?!?
It’s “totally organic”. It’s the same people posting it in radically different subs which then gets botted up to become the most upvoted thing in the sub of all time.
there was a pre-election story about Koomallah types using an external communication platform to coordinate swamping of the site.
It won't make a dent. The bots that make up the vast majority of the traffic were never going to join Twitter for obvious reasons.
In the interest of fairness, back links says X users fell in 2023, and has no data for 2024 (when Brazil banned them) https://backlinko.com/twitter-users
It starts increasing right when chatGPT came out, curious
It'll probably go up with less of the groups from Reddit picking out X users to attack, Reddit use will slide down as they'll start targeting each other instead..
Maybe a smidge. I suspect it'll hurt RDDT more, though. I'm guessing the admins will let the mentally ill mods run amok for a couple weeks and then bring down the hammer to allow X links again.
How did X grow in 2025? Wasn’t there a ban in Brazil?
SURELY X IS DYING.
Fucking moron leftists.
How can you call reddit “the front page of the Internet” when it actively blocks more than half of the Internet for wrongthink?
Elon taking over Twitter literally made it centralized
nowadays all the major players are on Twitter