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Re:Kickstarter shuts down campaign for Unstable Diffusion am... by trafficante on Sunday December 25, 2022 @01:31PM (#34129738)
> Reddit has been moderated the entire time, at a per-community level. It was never a free-for-all.

Sure, but the moderation team members have dramatically shifted from (and I’m being glib here) “kinda cringey atheist libertarians” to “authoritarian left/liberals steeped in idpol”.

The “Reddit moderator” cohort whiplashed from one extreme on the political compass to its polar opposite extreme in only a few years. Not claiming anything conspiratorial since I can certainly imagine how it could happen organically, but it’s interesting nonetheless how much of an effect different moderation standards can have on large online communities.

Re:Kickstarter shuts down campaign for Unstable Diffusion am... by concordDance on Sunday December 25, 2022 @07:21PM (#34133089)
Also note that it wasn't a conspiracy as reddit powermods like Merari (moderator of 300 subreddits) openly talk about it how they took control of reddit: https://old.reddit.com/r/ContraPoints/comments/arm0u1/meta_c...