Re:Almost all of the top subreddits are moderated by the sam...
by LeftHandPath on Thursday August 26, 2021 @10:20AM
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> 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.
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.