Not just over the Genzdong thing. Every single subreddit became propaganda. And the moderators of very apolitical subs were pinning up nationalistic support and ban threats to those who disapproved. It was a joke. Even if I wasn’t a socialist whose views are being directly targeted, I would still find the sort of pollution of discourse to be unpleasant. Reddit is chasing away anyone who isn’t deeply bought into bourgeois liberalism.
My choice to leave Reddit is not a principled stance. They have degraded reddit to the point that a materially inferior alternative is preferred. I feel that my migration represents a general flux away from Reddit and into viable alternatives. Again, this isn’t simply because they banned my favorite subreddit. It’s because over the past five years the meat of Reddit has become ideological trash.
Exactly. The entire site is trash. Back when chapo/MTC got banned I didn’t simply leave reddit because a lot of subs were still okay. Generally anti-China and ignorant/mildly racist stuff here and there, but that’s just normal day in the west. r/worldnews had one anti-China non-story a day, NOT like four over fake genocides with the comment section calling for nukes over it and banning all dissent upon sight. r/pics was a irrelevant neutral sub not putrid propaganda central. By this time of genzedong getting quarantined, the rest of the political (and a LOT of random subs that aren’t even supposed to be political) had the stench that’s simply unbearable.