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  • Gr3ywind@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Typical conservatives. Everyone else is fighting for the greater good and they’ve opted to selfish children.

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      It’s so obvious that they are going for a traffic grab. The message is basically “post stuff that maximizes reach and doesn’t scare off randoms”. There are subs that decided to address the problem, subs that ignore the problem and then there is r/conservative who try to take advantage of the problem. So fitting.

    • Ghast@lemmy.ml
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      Tbf, maybe a shitstorm of racist rants will make advertisers pull their ads, and start a bunch of bad press.

      Maybe /r/conservative were playing 4D chess all along.

      • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
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        They’ll just get the subreddit banned. I highly doubt Reddit admins want to bother fixing smaller subreddits when most people use the bigger subs.

  • Mainframed767@lemmy.ml
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    This is exactly what happened to DIGG* and what’s currently happening to twitter.

    Conservatives get beaten down by the vast majority of users and get a chip on their shoulder. Then as the site starts to die and the users move elsewhere conservatives jump on the sinking ship and declare their the new captain. They start drilling holes in the sinking ship cause theres nkthing else to do, and eventually realize the echo chamber sucks and then move on to the other social networks that everyone else went to, and the process repeats.

    I hope with federation that the cycle doesn’t repeat but we’ll see.

    • DIGG made their big DIGG 4.0 change to overhaul the algorithm because it was being gamed and brigaded by members of conservative forums at the time. It just so happened they did it with a user interface overhaul. For a while, after most everyone moved to reddit, the top posts were mostly conservative stuff.
    • parapsaeon@lemmy.world
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      They’re doing the same thing that Republicans in Congress are doing/proposing: gerrymandering and raising the voting age. Conservatism is at odds with democracy.

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      Then as the site starts to die and the users move elsewhere conservatives jump on the sinking ship and declare their the new captain. They start drilling holes in the sinking ship cause theres nkthing else to do,

      This is a really clever metaphor. Someone with the skills needs to draw it in the style of a political cartoon from the 1910-20s.

      (Also, I saw a great quote somewhere about how conservatives destroy things because they don’t have the capacity to build. Your “drilling holes” reminded me of that.)

  • otherpocket@lemmy.world
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    Man I blocked all right wing subreddits the day I signed up, been so nice not having to ever see or think about them.

  • IsThisLemmyOpen@reddthat.com
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    I don’t think spez really likes conservatives, he edited a trump supporter post to make them look bad so I’m not sure why right-wingers are licking the boots of a left leaning person. They’re owning the libs so hard, they’re licking the boots of one? (What is the political view of spez, anyways?)

    • baker@sh.itjust.works
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      What is the political view of spez, anyways?

      He’s a tech bro with pp envy towards those peers who flipped their startups for more than he did. He feels silly for having sold reddit for “only” 10 mil and wants reddit’s IPO to springboard him into the deeper end of the pool.

      I don’t think there is a political view of spez, because I think he’s just a wannabe Zuck, Dorsey, etc. His motive is cash.

    • can@beehaw.org
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      Is it possible they lack critical thinking and research ability?

  • Square Singer@feddit.de
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    Yeah, that will teach them. People posting more memes will totally change Reddit’s politics.

    But it’s at least in character. It’s about the same stance the conservatives take to any important issue.

  • CVan@lemmy.ml
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    In a strange way reading /r/conservative since the mods took a holiday has been kind of fun. I’ve always checked that subreddit, even though I hated reading it most of the time, I always thought it important to see what the other side has to say. Some of their memes today have been funny, even for a lefty and in some way it’s like a beautiful and surprising reddit farewell gift from the place I least suspected.

  • gordon@lemmy.world
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    What if, and hear me out on this, you go and start posting a bunch of ai images of trump sucking Putin off. Just a thought.

  • strayce@lemmy.one
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    I don’t understand the mentality behind this. Is it just a case of “They’re doing a thing so we’ll do the opposite”? What exactly is the goal here?

  • toiletwhole@feddit.de
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    • „A special surprise is being constructed „

    Would kinda be funny if the mods that run this sub are acutely lefties and the surprise would be a big fucking „GOT YOU“

    Just sayin…

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      I’m wondering would would happen if I posted some of MY memes, but I’m not breaking the picket line for that :p