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?
I some times think about it and how shitty people are
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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.
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.
Well put. Thanks for elaborating.
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.