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.

  • ComradeMonke
    16·
    2 years ago

    Yeah the propaganda is so blatant now its infuriating. How people don’t see right through it is beyond me. Anyway welcome!

  • ButtigiegMineralMap
    15·
    2 years ago

    I actually originally deleted Reddit a week ago after being on here and only recently redownloaded if just so I can go thru my saved posts(usually anti-propaganda megathreads and memes) and post some of the best stuff here. Fuck Reddit lol, half of my saved posts were from r/GenZedong I miss seeing those

  • ezmack@lemmy.ml
    13·
    2 years ago

    If you look at the front lage of reddit after a month or so of not using it you’ll have no idea why you liked it in the first place.

  • roccopun
    11·
    2 years ago

    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.

  • The_Internet_Lurker
    9·
    2 years ago

    Do not post the movements and positions of the Ukrainian army… they are doing it themselves already lmao

    Also another 13km long convoy going to Kharkiv… if Ukraine stronk, why are they not getting bombed, shelled and ambushed (or all three simultaneously)?

    Azov is sending recon, artillerymen, cooks, anyone in as infantry since all their actual infantry is dead. The clock is ticking…

    Edit: off topic, but whenever I see a russian convoy mentioned I crack up because in my head I associated the word Convoy with the Canadian idiots from Ottawa… ahahah…

    They should just have sent tanks and APCs into Ottawa on the first day smh