It seems every day I log onto leddit, every single city sub is infested with these vampires gaslighting comment sections about M4A being unpopular, tenants rights being bad, Bidenposting, and any other bad faith take you can imagine. They've taken over that piece of shit of a website and it's sickening to see the only remaining useful parts of Reddit fall prey to their bullshit.
They're even fucking taking over /r/PresidentialRaceMemes. But there are a few of us still there fighting back.....but the subreddit is dead. Mods plus a few brigaders have done it in. What was once a pretty active and funny community is now a humor graveyard.
i used to like that sub, but yeah, not long before chapo died that place turned. You say a single thing about biden maybe not being a radical leftist savior who's going to kill racism and suddenly you're actually the racist for not accepting no change. Like im a foreign, labour-voting woman, and i've had someone in that thread insist to my face that i'm actually a MAGA incel in ohio or some shit.
Things are going wrong and the libs really just do not know how to cope lmao.
Yep. When they banned AlarmedScholar for allegedly creating sockpuppets and engaging in vote manipulation on a large scale they installed mods who had not really ever participated there, and ignored mod requests from people who had been active there. Including me. The only active user who got modded was jegopan, and the rest of the mod team decided on such "brilliant" policies like:
filtering out certain phrases automatically (including "rape apologist" and "rape apologia")
auto sorting all posts by "controversial," so the worst comments appear at the top, driving a very different narrative
allowing crossposts, including from places like /r/neoliberal, but banning the mentioning of other subreddits....again with automatic removal by automod
It truly is a shithole now.
The Reddit Admins doing a hostile takeover of r/PresidentialRaceMemes was one of the last fucking straws for me. I didn't post too much there, but you guys had great memes and a good culture going. Then they crushed it immediately after it became clear the userbase wouldn't be jumping on the Biden bandwagon and installed neoliberals.
The whole point of that sub's existence was that r/PoliticalHumor had become tired twitter hashtag resistance bullshit, but the Reddit admins decided we needed more tired twitter hashtag resistance bullshit, and that this was nonnegotiable.
Any sizeable subreddit that eschews civility politics in the name of leftism seems to quickly be quarantined, banned, or taken over by new mods. Curious.
I mean I am not really keeping close tabs on any particular subreddits anymore, except for really niche ones that are probably not quite "ready for Lemmy"... but the top post on /r/PresidentialRaceMemes is one making fun of Biden supporters from a leftist perspective, so it looks to be at worst a mixed bag at the moment?
It's because reddit banned /u/AlarmedScholar. Speaking of which, is he on here?
how do we request the creation of c/presidentialracememes?
I say just post to /c/electoralism
It's good to keep meme subs separate from more discussion-oriented subs, or else everything becomes meme subs.
Yeah, that's why /c/electoralism is the perfect place.
Some good dunking going on there but I can't read their shitty views about losing faith in humanity