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Homeland Security Spying on Reddit Users: Leak show feds tracking anti-ICE Reddit users like "Budget-Chicken-2425" (www.kenklippenstein.com)
submitted 9 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 4 points 9 months ago (7 children)

Those were the good ol days. Now it's controlled by maga. It's getting closer to twitter every day, soon it will just be another republican propaganda site

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago* (6 children)

    What the fuck are you people on about? Have you been on reddit? Go look at r/all right now, or any other time. You have to go to r/conservative to find magats, and even there you'll find skeptical sentiments.

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  • [–] 8 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    I used reddit long before the /r/thedonald showed up. Before /r/atheism became a default sub, which was terrible for the community of that sub. It became meme infested and caused /r/trueatheism to be made for sharing stories about religion intolerance from politicians, educators and employers. At a certain point, I started wholesale blocking any major sub and power user to reclaim some usability, but the API change signaled to me it wasn't worth the effort anymore.

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  • [–] 7 points 9 months ago*

    My reddit account is almost 18 years old so I know that you're talking about. I came to lemmy at the time of the API change as well, but I stayed on reddit too. I'm not giving them any revenue: I use old.reddit and RES, so I don't see and ads.

    But blocking subs, as much as I also did that until I hit the limit of 100 blocked subs, is the wrong approach. Instead, you sub to the ones you like and avoid /r/all.

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago* (1 child)

    I was perma banned for saying "fuck all republicans". They don't want maga to be tied to the republican party for when trump is gone

    Edit: this was when trump 'won' the second time and everyone was shouting "fuck maga".

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago

    And that experience tainted your view of reddit. Don't get me wrong, there's plenty of reasons not to like reddit as a company, but the community is not the company. It's up to you to make your own experience good or bad there, same as in lemmy.

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago* (1 child)

    i used to use reddit from 2014 to 2024 and its gotten far more rightwing. The sheer amount of accepted racism and openly right wing stances on reddit these days is shocking to me. That kind of stuff would get you insta banned or downvoted into oblivion. Reddit culture has completely 180'd and it has no remnants of its former self.

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  • [–] 0 points 9 months ago*

    I don't know where you're seeing that. Unless you go looking for it in right-wing subs, the vast majority of reddit is very clearly to the left and any right wing comments are immediately downvoted to hell.

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