No.20166
>Thoughts on Reddit?
Venture capitalist social media. Any popular community is absolute shit, filled with bots and platitudes. Aaron Swartz (pbuh) was a fool to help build it. Lemmys (incl. Hexbear) have their major, hugebig issues but are far better, despite them.
Never use it through its main interface, only use an alternate frontend like teddit.net or libreddit (inb4: lib stands for 'libre')
>What’s stopping us from creating our own sub on there and uniting the proletarians of the world?
Just like /leftypol/, you're only uniting a bunch of disparate, desperate nerds. On top of that, it's a horribly ineffective platform, on a technical level, even with an ideal userbase. You cannot effectively organize on it.
Additionally, any community that somehow magically does that will be shafted. We've seen evidence like genzedong and others. And anything that doesn't will get sanewashed like the formally anarchist /r/antiwork . They won't allow you to say anything dangerous. They won't stop the bot armies from drowning you. They are public bourg and they own the system.
OP is a fucking idiot.
>but I feel like that crowd can be more amenable to our worldview
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No.20167
>>20161>prior affiliation with 8chanIt's not a 'prior affiliation' you sanewashing little shit. We weren't
affiliated, the board was born there and was there for most of its existence.
You might as well be saying Marxism had a prior affiliation with Karl Marx.
As a matter of fact, there were far more anarchists on the board for the first few years until a mod balleted them, so the problem wasn't even 8ch.
No.20169
>>2016799% of 8gag, including the staff, hated us. the
only reason /leftypol/ didnt get deleted was thanks to hotwheels, the literal creator and owner in name only
No.20171
>>20159this.
>>201698chan under hotwheels was terrible. Pretty much all mods on all boards were either retarded or glowing, /leftypol/ was full of spam by COINTELPRO shills. /cyber/ was alright until that too got assimilated.
8chan flourished after hw left and, believe it or not, even /pol/ was on a good path away from being the racist disinfo shithole that it used to be.
Btw, this is the thread that got it shut down:
https://web.archive.org/web/20190803162950/https://8ch.net/pol/res/13561044.htmlNow the entire site is full of shitposters again.