It's a big club, and you're not in it - George Carlin
Yes, I'm sure there's some technicalities that can be found to "justify" this but I'm also sure there's a lot DMs going between some well-connected people regarding this now deleted account.
Pretty classic Streisand Effect, as someone living outside if California that avoids most news I would have never heard of this councilor without this post.
I am calling it! And I am going to come back to my comment 10 years from now:
Reddit is the most gamed astroturfed social media on the internet. Few years ago reddit released the most active cities and top turned out to be airbase airlington.
Reddit is heavily gamed ever since they planned to go public and appointed some directors from
Government.
> Few years ago reddit released the most active cities and top turned out to be airbase airlington.
I was curious about this so I looked up the post you’re referring to[1]. The actual statistic is about “most addicted cities” (which I assume means visits per capita) and Eglin Air Force Base, FL. All of the top 3 cities seem to be places with a low official population but a high worker population - Eglin had an official pop of 2,800 but over 80k workers, for example. Any reason to believe it’s not just a statistical artifact?
reddit is actually quite open, much more so than twitter or facebook or tiktok. I think a lot of people equate getting kicked out of a subreddit as kicked off reddit. If your comments aren't welcome in a subreddit you are quite free to form your own sub and say (almost) whatever you like, as long as you don't flat out commit fraud, something illegal, or spout straight up nazi shit.
Not really true. As someone that once argued with a moderator about the most mundane thing in the world and then proceeded to get banned from 5+ subs... its only "open" in name only.
There's a well established group of terminally online individuals that "manage" to "moderate" dozens of subreddits.
I will openly admit there are gangs of moderators that control the top 20+ subs on there. I got kicked out of several just because I posted in a "covid-is-BS" sub that they were all idiots. Just because I was even -posting- in one of the subs that ultimately got banned, I got banned. I wrote 4 or 5 of those "cross pollinating" moderators and told them that it was horseshit and they were acting like babies & cowards and not sane moderators, as they hadn't even read my comment. one of them replied and did say it was BS and unblocked account in like 3 of the subs that he was a moderator of.
To be honest, I don't really find this too surprising. Reddit isn't a newspaper, they don't have teams of editors to fact check and verify sources, they don't have teams of lawyers to handle complex legal wranglings around whistleblowers. It's just a super weird place to go to be a whistle blower. They've got a sea of cat gifs, insurrection content and child porn to wade through, it's no surprise to me their default response to literally any request from government is "Yes".
I think people have it in their head that all social media companies are Facebook - hugely profitable behemoths that dominate the web. But in reality, Reddit is like Twitter, a good day is a day where they keep the lights on. Reddit started looking at an IPO in 2021, and filed a draft with the SEC in Dec '21, valuing them at around $15Bn. That was at the peak of the market, comparables have halved since then, which means their likely IPO value is lower than their last private funding round. And once they're public they really need to make some money.
So yeah, I think we need to be realistic what these companies are, they're weak. They have no business model, and yes, anyone big enough is going to bully them - whether that's governments or whether that's other large companies.
It's a big club, and you're not in it - George Carlin
Yes, I'm sure there's some technicalities that can be found to "justify" this but I'm also sure there's a lot DMs going between some well-connected people regarding this now deleted account.