• RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    I think they did this to create a megathread for it. I dont think they have a function to move all comments from one post to another though.

    Also, given how left leaning Reddit is nowadays (or maybe more accurately, how much Redditors hate Trump specifically), I would imagine there were probably a lot of comments that violated the rule about “don’t wish death or harm on anyone else,” which is honestly a rule that all humans should have the basic decency of applying to everything.

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      1 month ago

      Reddit?! Left leaning?!?!

      Not in the subs I used to frequent. The lemexodus seemed to turn the place into a right wing dumpster fire.

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          27 days ago

          …was…

          In my experience, it took a step to the right after the Lemmy exodus.

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            27 days ago

            oh, I remember hearing that before reddit was left reddit was right and i think it happened again

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        Yes!

        r/politics is the exception.

        But what’s left on reddit is usually far left russian propagnada surrogate subs, and centrist - far right content. The “social democratic left” demographic has severely shrunk.

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      Fine, then offer a megathread, but to remove posts that people have already started back-and-forth comment chains on is an authoritian attempt to control the conversation.

      I don’t doubt that we’ll see just a handful of new users on the Fediverse as a direct result of this.

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          The purpose of social media is to discuss things, not disseminate information. That is Wikipedia, or news sites. Tbf Reddit got its start as a news aggregator service. But to halt already started conversations… that really sucks.:-(

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          Yeah especially for a story like this it deserves new threads every couple hours as new information comes out and a new thread is needed to discuss it. Putting it on a mega thread means any discussion about new information just gets buried.

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      I agree. Does Lemmy have any such rule, or is that instance specific? I’ve seen a lot of questionable comments on the political communities here.

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        There was a post saying it’s too bad they missed, and I said “That’s not the way,” and got a mess of downvotes. People were arguing that me saying we shouldn’t advocate for political assassination means that I’m enabling fascism. I don’t even know what to say to that.

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      I was just over there by accident (not logged in) and yes they had the mega thread but literally every other post on that front page was about it. And many of them were not left leaning at all.