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
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.
They may have made one or two posts, especially when she was “exonerated” there were no multiple postings day after day keeping the narrative alive with different aspects of the story.
It was buried.