So what we expected finally happened.
Reddit quarantined (and might soon ban) the most active communist subreddit, and one of the very few non-western-supremacist ones left.
We’ve gotten dozens of new applications, and are approving them as quickly as we can.
Here are a few Lemmy mobile apps for Android and iOS, if you prefer using those over the web app.
If you have any questions, or if there’s anything we can help with, new ideas or communities, or anything that can make the transition away from stormfront easier, let us on the mod team know.
Reddit, Silicon valley, surveillance capitalism, bourgeois media, down with them!
Lmao, it’s essentially what happened.
Yeah, quarantine is literally part of the toolbox for sanctioning certain types of attention for a given subreddit. They take that “attention is currency” stuff real seriously. Simulate a market by lending moderators attention from your users. Those simulations automate the process of creating and maintaining influencers and “communities”, which ideally maximizes the amount of attention you continue to engage with and give them. They’re rigging a market they control and if it starts to go bad for them they just cut you off.