> Only approved users may post in this community.

So now it's the truest propaganda machine, you're saying. Approved users only for consumption by a dedicated subscriber base.

No the sub doesn't exist anymore. There was an admin takeover and they left it in this odd "technically existing" state for some reason. TD is gone - you can look for stories about it some months ago.

The top comment on the link you posted is, "Are we back?" Reply is "Still only approved posters I think."

The link itself is to a pinned, mod-posted, announcement link to an article about an executive order to strip social media platforms from liability protections from charges of bias.

The most recent non-announcement post was two months ago.

Other choice top-level comments:

- "Huh and coincidentally I see a TD post on my feed for the first time in months."

- "TD COME BACK"

- "The Phoenix shall rise from the ashes"

- "OMG it’s been so long, I have missed you all my friends!!!"

Meanwhile, taking a jaunt to thedonald.win, shows what is basically a reddit clone with much more activity, easily verifiable with two minutes examination.

I'm not a /r/the_donald reader/subscriber/whatever, and haven't followed whatever reddit drama has transpired, but it's pretty clear they've been shut down for a while.

2000 comments on a post by an approved submitter is the opposite of "been shut down."

To my earlier point:

> So now it's the truest propaganda machine, you're saying. Approved users only for consumption by a dedicated subscriber base.

/r/The_Donald has effectively been archived and marked read-only. There's no or little activity - the link you posted was an exception - all users have moved over to a third party site.

While one could argue that Reddit should have removed the subreddit sooner, I'm not sure that would have done them any favors (see Streisand Effect.)

They opted to strangle the community slowly, hoping it would dissipate. But it just moves elsewhere, like it always does.