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  • Gr3ywind@lemmy.world
    6·
    1 year ago

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

    • f5en@feddit.de
      2·
      1 year ago

      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
      3·
      1 year ago

      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
        1·
        1 year ago

        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
    4·
    1 year ago

    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.
    • StringTheory@beehaw.org
      2·
      1 year ago

      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.)

    • parapsaeon@lemmy.world
      2·
      1 year ago

      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.

  • otherpocket@lemmy.world
    3·
    1 year ago

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

  • Square Singer@feddit.de
    2·
    1 year ago

    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
    2·
    1 year ago

    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.

  • IsThisLemmyOpen@reddthat.com
    2·
    1 year ago

    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
      4·
      1 year ago

      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
      3·
      1 year ago

      Is it possible they lack critical thinking and research ability?

  • SickIcarus@sh.itjust.works
    1·
    1 year ago

    Wow, absolutely nobody in here gets what they’re doing and just wants to shit on “conservatives”. What they’re doing is what the other mods should also be doing - mod strike! Take down the barriers and let Reddit get overrun with bots, spam, and low-effort posts. If every sub did that instead of the weak-ass “dark for two days guise!” Reddit management would fold immediately.

    With this two-days-dark plan, management thinks (correctly?) that they can just wait it out and they win. And they’re probably right. No competent strike ever gives a deadline and expects it to work, that’s absurd. The smarter subs have at least said “at least two days, then we’ll reassess” - that’s the better approach, keep it open-ended.

    But the best approach is what /r/conservative seems to be doing, which is just put down their tools and walk the fuck away. Reddit management would have literally no response to that approach if it was the approach taken site-wide.

    But whatever, keep shitting on the nazis.

  • strayce@lemmy.one
    1·
    1 year ago

    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?