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Re:Almost all of the top subreddits are moderated by the sam... by uniqueid on Thursday August 26, 2021 @09:45AM (#28314856)
...and that sort of thing is why I block reddit.com. For any one accurate fact that a redditor learns, there's at least one other that is wrong. The site is like a game of telephone, and what's more half the participants are teenagers, propagandists, attention-seekers, crackpots or pathological liars.
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Re:Almost all of the top subreddits are moderated by the sam... by LeftHandPath on Thursday August 26, 2021 @10:20AM (#28315311)
> the participants are teenagers, propagandists, attention-seekers, crackpots or pathological liars.

I quit using reddit regularly about two years ago, but I still checked up on it maybe once a month until a couple of months ago.

What's really telling is opening the site without being logged in to my old account. I never have to scroll more than 5-10 posts down to find an obvious astroturfing political post, or a screenshot of a 15-word tweet being hailed as some masterstroke of political discourse.

Reddit's primary societal function these days seems to be serving interest groups and providing a testing ground for psyops.

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