I sometimes comment in a community called wayofthebern, which is sort of a dissident left wing but good intentioned free speech sub, and reddit has been slowly purging the folks there over the past year
It's founder guy Fthumb got banned about a year ago for an absurd reason (talking about Israeli influence in Biden's cabinet), the entire website Saidit used as a backup got nuked, and out of the original folks there everyone is dwindling down
https://www.reddit.com/r/WayOfTheBern/comments/1q8eky7/this_place_is_gonna_need_more_backups/
Sorry if this seems off topic to the sub or whatever, but I've been reminded of this sub during the Epstein emails and revelations, which brought me back to Kotaku-in-Action #1's original founder being a subversive trying to gatekeep everyone, which reminded me of this place
That shithole hasn't been usable in almost a decade. It's just a place where pedophiles go to talk about their lady dicks now. The only surprising thing about this situation is that they haven't run out of dissidents to purge yet.
That's the beauty of the left. There's always an infinite supply of former sycophants that can be labeled then purged as fresh wrongthinkers.
Like slashdot after Clinton was elected the place was always a leftist cesspool. And may have even been before, but coming from 12 years of GOP leadership it seemed like it was just proper push back against government policies during the GOP era and conservative voices could still be heard. Once Clinton got into office suddenly all opposition to the government stopped and anything the DNC did was blessings from on high. Conservatives could still be heard but got downvoted into oblivion. Bush got into office and suddenly it was all opposition to the government all the time but still somewhat civil. 9/11 and the war on terror changed all that and seemed to bring out the worst in the frothing libs. Then Obama got into office and the chains were off - each year getting worse as Obama’s communist movements and reality distortion field kicked in. Then Trump started running and the full blown totalitarianism started with the “deplatforming and banning” censorship is now widely encouraged.
Sorry - off tangent there - but even with all the conservative attacks, many obscure subreddits (specific games, technologies, etc) were still relatively politics free. Now?! Good lord… first it was no kings everywhere and now it’s fuck ice - join my protest! Communists (probably intentionally because they’re dumbassed stupid) have literally destroyed all spaces of honest intellectual debate.
I haven't been on Slashdot for over a decade. It was a real leftist cesspool when I visited (but every so often a right-winger made such an inarguable point that they got a good post score). The final nail in the coffin for me was when they disabled anonymous posting. Supposedly it was to minimize abuse, but I suspect it was a move to curb the exchange of ideas.
You can still post anonymously but you have to have an account, then select "anonymous".
That particular case was tricky because there were a lot of spammers/trollers that would use the anonymous posting to flood posts with junk. Sure you could block by IP but that's easily spoofed and gotten around. It seemed a decent compromise though I'm not sure how post anonymously affects your karma.
Regardless the editors are all super biased. I've posted lots of technical news that leans conservative and it never gets posted. EG They were happy to post that Bush used Emails in a potential illegal manner, having both a private email server for political work and governmental one while in the white house - which is a legal requirement to separate official work from campaign work. But when I tried to post any articles about Hillary's email server, everything was radio silent and never got any posting.
Weird. There were other postings about her e-mail server though. And how she was supposed to turn over files, but instead ''accidentally'' deleted them. Also how Trump was accused of colluding with Russia, but it was actually Hillary who had proven dealings with Russia.
I believe that your submissions were never published, it's just that there were postings about Hillary, for what it's worth.
Also - anonymous posting is possible again. Since a few months as far as I can tell.
Reddit stage 1 - you have your original genitals/breasts
Reddit stage 2 - you regret the mutilation
Reddit stage 3 - take that anger and go burn some trees for climate justice or get shot helping illegals replace you