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Re:Voat Is Shutting Down by tootie on Monday December 21, 2020 @10:21PM (#25502498)
The problems on reddit started the second it became commercially successful. First came paid promotions, then came the propaganda. Too much of the "free speech" was totally insincere attempts at manipulation.
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Re:Voat Is Shutting Down by jml7c5 on Tuesday December 22, 2020 @02:19AM (#25503823)
What time frame are you talking here?
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Re:Voat Is Shutting Down by tootie on Tuesday December 22, 2020 @09:54AM (#25506776)
I don't really recall the whole timeline. But it wasn't long after the Digg debacle that reddit started getting gamed by content farms leveraging popular accounts. Then the process got more and more refined and professional as it also became more lucrative.
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