Edit: Oops, it is /r/Tennessee, not /r/ProgressiveHQ

    • Dorkyd68@lemmy.world
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      9 months ago

      At one point it was a glorious place. Then 5 people became admins and mods of the most popular 100 sub reddits and began controlling the narrative to fit their beliefs. In my opinion reddit has been dead for at least 5 years now

      • berno@lemmy.world
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        9 months ago

        Way longer than that. The rot was evident during 2015/2016 election cycle. Narrative crafting and political astroturfing for days. The last 5 years or show has just illustrated how unhinged the admins and mods of major subs are

  • amniotic druid@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    9 months ago

    Tennessean here who tried to organize on my state/city subreddits. Can confirm this kind of partisan censorship is not new.

    A while ago I made a innocuous enough post on my city’s sub about a “Release the Epstein Files” billboard that went up and was paid for by our local Mobilize chapter. Within an hour it was the most upvoted post of the past month. Within 2, it was removed without reason and I was blocked and banned permantly