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Re:Protest note about user privacy changes by Reddit by swebs on Friday February 26, 2021 @06:30AM (#26273695)
I wouldn't consider the new redditors normal. They are highly radicalized, highly emotional, highly active on the internet, and extremely motivated to ban anyone who dissents. Its exactly the same as the Tumblr population before Tumblr died.
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Re:Protest note about user privacy changes by Reddit by kkoncevicius on Friday February 26, 2021 @06:56AM (#26273888)
This was on the top of reddit yesterday: https://www.reddit.com/r/WhitePeopleTwitter/comments/ls6l54/...

I think this post is a good summary of what new reddit has become. Both the content and the comments within.

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Re:Protest note about user privacy changes by Reddit by seibelj on Friday February 26, 2021 @07:22AM (#26274050)
To be fair, many posts are also about pumping stock in a mediocre mall-based video game retailer to get rich quickly.
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Re:Protest note about user privacy changes by Reddit by swiley on Friday February 26, 2021 @09:35AM (#26275165)
They've optimized for the most impressionable and vulnerable people.

It's probably very profitable for an ad driven site but it kills the community.

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Re:Protest note about user privacy changes by Reddit by ourlordcaffeine on Friday February 26, 2021 @07:17AM (#26274011)
Reddit has a bunch of conspiracy theories flying about, being spread by the very people who claim not to be vulnerable to conspiracies and misinformation.
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Re:Protest note about user privacy changes by Reddit by swebs on Friday February 26, 2021 @09:57AM (#26275367)
I've been sent quite a few of them from real life friends and thought they were pretty funny. People in general don't want child molesters to evade the law just because they're rich or powerful politicians.
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Re:Protest note about user privacy changes by Reddit by knolax on Friday February 26, 2021 @09:49AM (#26275288)
It is funny and it spreads fast because it's the first thing most people think in a high profile suicide like this.
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Re:Protest note about user privacy changes by Reddit by 2OEH8eoCRo0 on Friday February 26, 2021 @10:35AM (#26275779)
My main point was that it is a meme/conspiracy theory that people who don't think they fall for conspiracy theories have fallen for big time.
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Re:Protest note about user privacy changes by Reddit by barry-cotter on Friday February 26, 2021 @08:52AM (#26274725)
Tumblr didn’t die, it was killed. Not intentionally but by idiocy.
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Re:Protest note about user privacy changes by Reddit by rurban on Friday February 26, 2021 @08:31AM (#26274548)
Look more like US agents to me.

Only rarely I encounter the St Petersburg FSB Trollfarm, and then they were immediately recognizable as such.

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Re:Protest note about user privacy changes by Reddit by BoiledCabbage on Friday February 26, 2021 @10:05AM (#26275440)
To be clear, your logic here is on Russian trolls is: There are no people hiding because I rarely see them any more.

As in they've lost their motive to hide which seems pretty implausible. Or the alternative would be you don't see them easily because after years of practice hiding they've gotten better at it. The latter seems more likely.

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Re:Protest note about user privacy changes by Reddit by HDMI_Cable on Friday February 26, 2021 @11:19AM (#26276374)
I'm just wondering, how do you spot these agents? For me, even though I know there's astroturfing going on, I can never spot them.
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Re:Protest note about user privacy changes by Reddit by rurban on Sunday February 28, 2021 @09:33AM (#26293626)
See e.g. https://old.reddit.com/r/IntelligenceNews/
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