I don't know how many of ya'll even really remember this, but once upon a time, Reddit actually used to be pretty fucking good. Think 4chan levels of craziness, minus some of the toxicity / hatred type energies that you find on those /pol/ type glowie hangouts. The AMAs used to be dope; and the entire community was more fun and less (almost nil) faggotry. Those were the days, as some would say.
Then, they murdered poor ol' Aaron in cold blood, and the rest, as they say, is (pretty much) history.
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As and when the White Hats take over this platform once and for good, the sheer potential I see with it is pretty fucking unimaginable. For one thing, just as the long form JRE is more suited towards making people smarter than some minute long Tik Tok video about world politics that utterly lacks any nuance, any in-depth perspectives whatsoever; so does the presence, or, at the very least the existence of a place such as Reddit is pretty much excellent for long-form discussions over a variety of exciting topics, as well as endless niche communities (as opposed to, say, a limited-to-280-characters short-form discussion platform such as Twatter). I mean, Reddit has got some pretty decent niche communities even today --- for example, r/polandball is one that comes to mind first thing. As well as (perhaps), r/PoliticalCompassMemes and such. Unfortunately however, the left-wing commie / nazi bias and censorship can't be escaped (beyond a very, very tiny degree) even within these very subreddits.
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So, do the White Hats have Reddit under their control already, only waiting for that perfect opportune moment to make the said knowledge public? Well, to be honest, I don't know that part myself. There are some (somewhat likely) indications of something like that being a thing here at best, I would say --- but of course, nothing that is truly concrete comes to mind as of yet. (Or maybe they're waiting to dismantle Reddit the very day it goes public with its IPO or such, think MASSIVE exposures such as u/maxwellhill and such, here).
Do let me know within the comments if you yourself believe that you've found a reason to doubt such (i.e. a White Hat takeover!)
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WWG1WGA!!!
There needs to be a mix of both the reddit style and FB.
No anonymous accounts. If you have something of value to say be prepared to own your opinion.
Then allow others to up-vote. Popular opinions make it to the top.
I'm not in agreement with the no anonymous accounts, only because we've seen how downright vicious the brainwashed are about unpersoning people with the wrong ideas.
So what?
FB doesn't allow it but people are fine posting their opinions there.
They just have to be careful and be more civil about it.
I've been using reddit for close to 15 years now. I still use it daily for their plentiful subreddits that peak my interests. I haven't found a similar platform that has my interests. It's getting worse every day with bots and stifled arguments which sucks.
It was good under Aaron Schwartz before he “committed suicide”. Now it’s a fucking Marxist circle jerk. Fuck that dumpster fire. Yea if they allowed free speech it would be good. But it doesn’t so it blows donkey balls.
Fuck Reddit. Its conditioning us for social credit scores, as well as any other platform that has any voting, likes/dislikes system in place.
Plus, I hate the feed format, I prefer message/forum boards such as vBulletin, phpBB etc
I don’t care about Twitter, or Reddit. I’ve never had an account on either of those platforms, and I never will. So I pretty much just don’t care!
GAW is the best. Before that it was VOAT. GAW will remain the best long after Reddit is gone.
Even though such might be true (for now), at the end of the day, GAW is largely associated (majorly) with one specific social / political / religious ideology and commentary over matters --- as it pertains to but one specific country, as also certain biases (that are mostly inherent to any given discussion) that come with such a highly-specific configuration, permutation, and combination of things, here. To say that we are a kind of an echo chamber (to some degree), wouldn't necessarily be that much of a stretch, here. Granted, that such was by no means a fault of our own, here; for, had the lefties themselves not gone all out Nazi to begin with (across practically every imaginable social media outlet there is), we'd probably be having far more balanced sorts of discussions, perspectives, ideas, and (idea / information / knowledge / wisdom) exchanges and such.
Because, at the end of the day, no one side is always right about everything, always correct, and always perfect to the T with respect to their opinions and perspectives, here. People are different, and think differently, and such is to be celebrated and appreciated (over giving in to any forms and manners of polarizations, echo-chamber creations, etc.). It is always good to have and see multiple perspectives, for such is what ultimately enriches and expands us. In fact, the more the number of perspectives we listen to, the deeper and richer do we really even become as a person.
Be it left wing or right wing or center wing, no one person or grouping is always correct about it all. And that without listening to others' unique perspectives (many, which may even be directly in contradiction or opposition to our own); we would essentially end up becoming a society full of clones, robots, zombies and NPCs. Which is by far the very last thing that we'd ever really want, of course. Coz we can already see all too well as to how that has been playing out (as of late).
The ideal discussion forum is one where all are represented in equal measure, and where there are no personal biases and preferences, no shady shit, no censorship, and, above all, open and fair discourses in which one and all can participate without being blocked, muted, or straight up shadow-banned out of the discussion or such.
Just my 2 cents on this one.