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Disconcerting responses on Reddit over blackout (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by Skyraptor7@lemmy.world to c/lemmyworld@lemmy.world

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Apologies if this is the wrong place for this. A few subs opened up and were discussing the possibility of extending the blackouts. The majority wanted the blackout to end to keep the influx of content. That was to be expected.

There was a disturbing tone in some of the messages though. It was a form of cynicism essentially backing Reddit to do whatever it wanted to the devs, and that it was wrong to protest the rule changes as we should be okay with whatever Reddit wanted. It was almost like learned helplessness. I genuinely found it to be disturbing. Is anyone else noticing this in their communities/subs?

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[-] Brunbrun6766@lemmy.world 61 points 1 year ago

Keep 2 things in mind

/r/conservative assholes are running amuck across all of reddit at the moment.

And, Reddit has been known to astroturf comments in the past and I 100% guarantee that they are probably working on that to some extent right now.

[-] FantasticFox@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

Why would /r/conservative support killing third-party apps though? I don't really see the connection.

[-] towerful@beehaw.org 14 points 1 year ago

Probably because they are less conservative and more ... Contrarian?

[-] GhostedIC@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

That's kinda true. Then again, consider the history of any right-leaning sub or sub that makes fun of the left: Admins force unwanted mods into their subs. New accounts make "threatening" posts faster than mods can stomp them out, and get screenshots to other subs as proof the whole sub is terrible. T_D banned fir a post arguably advocating for violence against police... a few weeks before BLM kicked off, and every left sub was loaded with advocations for violence towards cops. Cringeanarchy got flooded with CP posts from AgainstHateSubs alt accounts and promptly shut down. (Cite: https://youtu.be/yUV9TyfYaEQ ) All this was, overtly or covertly, supported by reddit's admins.

Now, if you're still a r/conservative mod on Reddit after ALL THAT... you're controlled opposition installed by reddit admins, or you want to a reddit mod so bad, you'll compromise your values for it.

[-] minimar@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Uh, what? How did admins 'overtly or covertly' support false flag attacks?

[-] GhostedIC@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

AHS was definitely doing this, and there were several examples of admins being in close communication with AHS leaders, including some leaked chat logs (which arent totally verifiable but are pretty consistent). If nothing else, the fact that reddit admins had their eyes on "bad" posts in right-leaning subs faster than mods could, and yet also would ignore similar posts in lefty or "neutral" subs like r/politics that don't allow any remotely right wing opinions, was very observable to anybody in an effected sub.