Politics

What if, and hear me out on this, you go and start posting a bunch of ai images of trump sucking Putin off. Just a thought.

nobody doubted that the worst of reddit would take over after we left

feel free to shit post starting tomorrow

It's funny because they're implying that the whole sub isn't just shitposts to begin with.

Hey, you don't see me complaining they stay there and don't migrate to Lemmy. I'm pretty fine with that.

Someone throw a padlock on that group to keep them in Reddit.

For a brief period of time I was on a place on Reddit where new users could get help finding their way around the site.

Someone shows up there and says, "I'm not sure why I'm even on this libt++d communist site, nobody here will respect the way any good conservative American thinks."

I'm thinking, OK, snowflake, don't melt so hard from being a victim, but I responded with, "You might try /r/Conservative, and I can ask their moderators if they have any other suggestions."

I did so: I sent the moderators of /r/Conservative a message explaining what I was looking for and asking for any advice they might have for this new user. The response I got back was, "LOL, F+++ off."

Lovely, lovely people there.

(100% that good conservative American was on the libt++d communist site for the free porn.)

This is exactly what happened to DIGG* and what's currently happening to twitter.

Conservatives get beaten down by the vast majority of users and get a chip on their shoulder. Then as the site starts to die and the users move elsewhere conservatives jump on the sinking ship and declare their the new captain. They start drilling holes in the sinking ship cause theres nkthing else to do, and eventually realize the echo chamber sucks and then move on to the other social networks that everyone else went to, and the process repeats.

I hope with federation that the cycle doesn't repeat but we'll see.

• DIGG made their big DIGG 4.0 change to overhaul the algorithm because it was being gamed and brigaded by members of conservative forums at the time. It just so happened they did it with a user interface overhaul. For a while, after most everyone moved to reddit, the top posts were mostly conservative stuff.

so basically, "we mods are boycotting but we can't act like we actually agree with the other protests."

typical conservative contrarian bullshit as always.

I don't understand the mentality behind this. Is it just a case of "They're doing a thing so we'll do the opposite"? What exactly is the goal here?

So a corporate douche CEO wants to screw over their own userbase in the name of money alone and they are 100% onboard with opposing the boycott/protest...

...but are perfectly fine harassing and threatening stock workers at Target over Pride Month displays, outright absurd-levels of "boycotting" because of a limited-edition can with Bud Light, and the whole Chick-Fil-A DEI hire?

They won't leave a single boot unlicked

Nothing says conservative like being happy about big and sudden changes.

Well, you don't need third party apps with good moderation tools if you just don't moderate anything. /s

Always needing to be the contrarian, no matter the subject or how it may hurt them as well.

Boots ain't gonna lick themselves...

/r/conservative tomorrow be like

I wonder, will it be actual shitposting or will it just be them dropping the mask and calling that shitposting

One would think that a platform killing third party apps and forcing consolidation of users into their app would set some alarms off in the minds of the "we freedom oorah come and take it" party. Unfortunately they don't even pretend to match the branding on the tin.

Is there a reason why they're doing this? Blackout's not even political. They just want to be contrarian to everything.

Oh my, if they were really brave they would un-ban all the supposed liberals that ever slightly ruffled their feathers.

So… a bunch of hateful, ignorant jerks are going to be even more obnoxious than usual? And they think that’s a good thing?

If the blackouts aren’t enough to drive people away, this will. Congratulations, reddit! You’re getting the user base you deserve!

Oh nice, good to see r/conservative doing their absolute best to get people to avoid Reddit.

Conservative ego is so easy to make a plaything of. What a bunch of blind lemmings.

Reddit is the new Parler

Conservatives... More like contrarians.

so i did cave in and open https://libreddit.kavin.rocks/conservative/new and i promise you all, if this was an ironic subreddit, i would've pinned this to my browser.

it's just too goofy right now and they're all so proud, i cant help but love it.

i hope they continue to "conserve" reddit LOL. @bumblefumble said it best:

"Nothing says conservative like being happy about big and sudden changes."

EDIT: replaced link with libreddit alternative

Since when were they against shitposts?

Typical conservatives. Everyone else is fighting for the greater good and they've opted to selfish children.

Wow, absolutely nobody in here gets what they’re doing and just wants to shit on “conservatives”. What they’re doing is what the other mods should also be doing - mod strike! Take down the barriers and let Reddit get overrun with bots, spam, and low-effort posts. If every sub did that instead of the weak-ass “dark for two days guise!” Reddit management would fold immediately.

With this two-days-dark plan, management thinks (correctly?) that they can just wait it out and they win. And they’re probably right. No competent strike ever gives a deadline and expects it to work, that’s absurd. The smarter subs have at least said “at least two days, then we’ll reassess” - that’s the better approach, keep it open-ended.

But the best approach is what /r/conservative seems to be doing, which is just put down their tools and walk the fuck away. Reddit management would have literally no response to that approach if it was the approach taken site-wide.

But whatever, keep shitting on the nazis.