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Does anyone else remember when "they" broke up the anti-work movement on reddit by putting a mod on fox news then dividing the community by creating the work reform sub? (lemmy.world)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by Daft_ish@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I some times think about it and how shitty people are

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[–] forgotmylastusername@lemmy.ml 17 points 8 months ago (2 children)

What has reddit accomplished in over a decade? That place has been nothing more than an escalating demoralization psy-op. It's given the right another central platform to push their ideologies. It's had the left preoccupied with petty squabbles.

Maybe reddit closer to 15-20 years ago would have been able to use reddit to stage actual coordinated worker demonstrations in cities around America. Over the past decade or so they've been keyboard mashing.

[–] PowerCrazy@lemmy.ml 14 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Reddit isn't a "psy-op" but it does intentionally select for the status quo. Once the decision was made to start trying to IPO, radical elements that were anti-capitalist, were purged from all the major sub-reddits. The other radical's drew traffic and were allowed to stay. Once you get rid of anyone advocating for change, of course stagnation is the end result. That's the goal.

[–] haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com 1 points 8 months ago

Well put. Thanks for elaborating.

[–] Squirrel@thelemmy.club 5 points 8 months ago

It's "accomplished" giving a clear place of congregation to many, many niche communities. It's (anti-)social media; it's not intended to accomplish anything big.