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You know, I think Reddit is actually the best positioned Twitter alternative. You can use your real name, or anonymous account. You go there to follow particular subreddits, but there no reason why I shouldn't also be able to follow people and see their non-topic (ie, not part of any subreddit) microblogs interweaved with posts from subreddits. They deal with spam and trolls reasonably well.

They have all the pieces, they just have to put them together tastefully.

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Reddit's censorship is even worse than Twitter's, so I would expect Reddit to be next on the list of places to liberate on the Internet.

"Censorship" has always been a dog whistle for "not letting propaganda and incitement run rampant".

I find it pretty depressing that Telegram links are banned across Reddit because it makes moderators' jobs easier. There's no nuance just an enormous hammer. That's an example of censorship without sufficient cause.

Reddit banned r/TumblrInAction, a subreddit whose purpose was pointing out hateful content on other social networks.

Comrade, don't forget about the satirical news by the Babylon Bee. They are a danger after all, because if a subject thinks you are funny, you cannot control them.

"propaganda" has always been a dog whistle for suppressing inconvenient talking points

Feels like Reddit is closer to Mastodon than to Twitter. Each Mastodon server is like a subreddit with its own rules, moderation, user base, etc.

Not really. There's a centralized committee that will blacklist or even dump your subreddit down the memory hole if it doesn't meet its standards of moderation.

> Reddit is actually the best positioned Twitter alternative

If they do, Elon can buy Reddit for about $44.00.

cool idea except that would require using reddit. twitter is full of retards, but reddit is full of insufferable retards who think they're very intellectual and will let you know it. it's an entire site full of IFL Science type bozos.

also didn't reddit proudly make a blogpost earlier this year that they now censor more speech than the bird site and calling on it to do the same?

(oh and i've been linked normal, SFW stuff where reddit now tries to make me create an account to see it because it's "18+". no, i am not "becoming a redditor" especially not to view one link. if they kill old.reddit.com and i.reddit.com it will be literally unusable.)

The login/ create an account/ nsfw bs has increased dramatically over the lastfew days . Nsfw? It's a war channel im following....

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