i left reddit for good today with their obvious attempt at controlling the narrative like the rest of big social media. long live the lemmy federation
It’s not the man, it’s the actions.
Follow the money—because that’s where the power is. The elites crave control, and to grow their wealth, they must control society. Any social group that could challenge their narrative is relentlessly suppressed. Reddit, once a space for free speech, has transformed into what Facebook was—a corporation that bends to their interests. Now, Reddit is just another part of the network they control.
The Romans felt threatened because of Jesus.
Well he was super violent.
and Jesus went up to Jerusalem, 14And found in the temple those that sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the changers of money sitting: 15And when he had made a scourge of small cords, he drove them all out of the temple, and the sheep, and the oxen; and poured out the changers’ money, and overthrew the tables;
Upvoting that probably gets a ban now.
I don’t know if that’s evidence he was super violent. I might guess this story was made up to prevent people of business stealing power and influence from church leaders.
It was probably more to do with the destruction of the Temple that was there when Jesus was alive but destroyed 40 years later, there are many nods to this in the gospels, because it’s trying to contextualize current events with the Christian religious movement, it was important that Jesus was prophetic, and him driving out vendors from the temple is a strong image, here is the messiah, rejected by the Jews he here to save, and he correcting them, telling them to remove vendors from temple ground, and they refused to listen, so God allowed the temple to be destroyed.
Or maybe it’s more the image of the sacrificial animal’s symbolic of the Jews being chased from their homelands by a whip god controls turned against them for their sins.
I like the line by Killer Mike (“Walking in the Snow”), which I think he says he got from Dick Gregory:
“All of us serve the same masters, all of us nothin’ but slaves / Never forget in the story of Jesus, the hero was killed by the state”.
Powerful stuff.
Edit to add: honestly that whole track rips and is super relevant right now.
killer mike is a sellout, you might wanna pick a hero with morals
Wait what? Gonna need to hear more there, everything I know about the guy has been positive. That does happen though so I’m open to the possibility of course.
why would you leave reddit just to talk about reddit
Why would you come to c/reddit just to ask why someone would talk about reddit
Why would you come to c/reddit just to ask why someone would talk about reddit
That’s perfectly reasonable, no? See c/reddit on my frontpage, click and ask why
Perfectly reasonable for frolicing with smug delight.
Project what you will and downvote like the redditor you are, but nobody has answered the question.
Because it’s a topic worth discussing to those interested and it’s just unfortunate that the redditor you are is here.
It’s really not, an article every now and then when there is something notable, sure, but an entire community with numerous posts a day with enough attention to get on my unrelated feed is not “worth”
Which is fine, I’m not trying to yuck the yums of anyone, I’m just asking why. Why obsess over a website you used to use?
People just like to talk about things, especially things they may have some connection to.
It makes sense to have a place to do that. Otherwise, some wanker would come by and shit in the pool because people are talking about it elsewhere. Probably tell them to go create a sub for it or some shit while they huff their own.
Because we can’t talk about reddit on reddit
If you’ve replaced the functionality of reddit in your life, and reddit itself is heading in a direction you don’t approve of, why continue discussing it?
Why not? Is not like they are banning here for discussing Reddit.
Because why discuss something that’s not in your life anymore, why make/join a community dedicated to something you’re NOT doing anymore?
are you saying you never bitch about things in the past, like shitty jobs or school or something. And besides, back on reddit (new here so idk what kind have formed yet) there were plenty, like exmormom, stopdrinking, etc
Bitch about things, sure, but I’m not gonna join c/KFC and participate in daily circlejerking about how much working at KFC sucked
there were plenty, like exmormom, stopdrinking, etc
Okay but you see how those are different, right? Comparing using reddit to a high-control religion or alcoholism isn’t a bit much?
For me, it’s because I invested 13 years into that website, as a mostly-apolitical, slightly left-of-center normie; and then one day they decided that saying “we need to be punching Nazis” or “fuck Elon” is somehow too extreme now, and something we don’t talk about anymore (even in hypotheticals or semi-jest - I mean most of us are just keyboard warriors ffs, and we ain’t out there punching anybody).
Back in my day, saying “we should punch Nazis” was a good thing.
So yeah, I harbor some resentment. I lost some connections with some nerdy, niche, non-political interests and hobbies of mine, just because I hate Fascism so, so very much, and I was willing to say so.
So, fuck them.
funny thing is your not allowed to discuss reddit bans on reddit, which will result in you get banned down the line.
Happened to me. I didn’t say anything too radical (something about punching Nazis), but discussing the temporary ban resulted in a permanent ban.
They’re really clamping down on people saying not-very-radical anti-Fascist things.
Good riddance.
For the same reason we talked on reddit about twitter and facebook all the time. It were previous systems some of us spend the better part of a decade on. It is interesting to share the impression while watching together the Vesusvius erupting and sealing Pompeii and discussing its last chapter.
It is interesting to share the impression while watching together the Vesusvius erupting and sealing Pompeii and discussing its last chapter
People said the same thing around the API changes, and it seems more like being bitterly obsessed with an ex. Would I love to see the downfall of any major social media site? Sure, but that’s different than being part of a community that is constantly discussing a website you used to go to.
These things take time. I was a reddit user for 10+ years and left 3 years ago. Since then, reddit is in a downspiral. Whenever I visit Reddit (I still do, without an account) I can hardly recognize the place. There is no hourly changing Frontpage anymore. I sometimes see things that are 1-2 days old. Crazy worn down place.
Why you click on this if you do not want to participate? I have no interest in this discussion with you. If you need the reddit falldown happen in the timespan of a tiktok video, this is up to you. Rome didnt burned down in a day. Those system erode, corrode and fall apart over long times.
Why you click on this if you do not want to participate?
Because I find it odd to find reddit on my frontpage multiple days a week when I was glad to leave it and associated behavior behind.
If you need the reddit falldown happen in the timespan of a tiktok video, this is up to you
You’re not understanding at all, I don’t know how you interpreted my words to mean that I am merely impatient.
I got banned from late stage capitalism for questioning why they have a hard on for China.
No, not because of that guy. Because of us. They are afraid of us. They should be.
Let’s get this guy on some candles!
He “allegedly” killed one of them. So they should feel threatened.
I left reddit for good yesterday as well. To hell with their censorship.
aww Murderers deserve the same end but he’s going to rot in jail with his rage instead. Good for us all.
They are afraid of copycats, but they had months to try and stop them by just loosening their strangle hold on society. I heard another exec got offed last month in his home in Oregon. it’s starting
Their strategy instead is to announce wars and terrify every 20 minutes so that the news cycle is too full of other crisis to remember this guy.
Yeah that’s not going to work when they’re inorganically doing the suppression
The thing is, I think our attention spans are too cooked to be overwhelmed like that anymore. A new crisis every 20 minutes? I can get through 40+ tiktok videos in that time, and half of them will be about something they are trying to terrify with (trans rights, science defunding, bird flu, racism, palestine, the oligarchy, luigi, etc.)
The old media can’t keep up, but I’m in my mid-thirties and even my old brain can handle being pulled in dozens of directions and still think about/remember Luigi, unprompted, multiple times a day.
He’s very cute, but he’s also so young. Can anyone find a pic of his dad?
All this violent imagery, my stars! I need pearls to clutch.
Just proves we need more luigis in the world. But reddit has been shit for a while.
As always, follow the money. Those in power want more and more money and in order to do so they need to control the population. If there is one remaining social aggregate that can foster sentiment against them, they will come down hard on it. Reddit became a corporation like Facebook and then now they want to add Reddit to the list of social aggregates they control.
i love how they were scrambling to rein in the conservative audiences of these msms, and social media early on in the manhunt of luigi. the grifters kept quiet for a whole month before they were able to reorient thier strategy to divide “left” vs right again.
It’s an addiction, like being addicted to heroin. We should have done an intervention long ago, but the addicts are running the show. And capitalism seems to favor and promote the addicts so we have a feedback loop that I fear cannot be stopped.
