/r/Conservative is going to save Reddit

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.
- I'd have to go back to spez's teat to do that. I'm no fooking kneeler
  
  /r/freefolk is leaking.
- This is a fine idea if a ever saw one.

nobody doubted that the worst of reddit would take over after we left
- For $8 a month.
  
  That's the idea... It's a protest of a different kind. Still makes the point about moderation needed by people who do it for free.
- I demodded myself from shittyadvice before I destroyed my account, but prior to that I posted my idea for what SA should do. I'm convinced that sub exists to cordon off all the trolls so they don't ruin the rest of Reddit but giving shitty advice elsewhere. My plan was just lock the sub but tell everybody in there to spread the love and Make Reddit Shitty Again, aka MRSA. We'd spread like an incurable disease.
  
  I was going to make a comment about how I confused "SA" for Something Awful, but as I continued to read I saw it was still an apt analogy...

feel free to shit post starting tomorrow
It's funny because they're implying that the whole sub isn't just shitposts to begin with.
- What?!? You don’t think a link to a youtube channel with a Roman bust as their avatar screeching about “muh collapse of western society” is a valuable contribution?!?
  
  The fascists ability to appropriate cool things makes be so sad and frustrated. I love history and Roman history in particular. They are so familiar as humans but at the same time alien in their views if society and the world. Makes it really fascinating.
  nazis poison everything they touch
- They post shit, not shitposts. Conservatives add nothing to a conversation.

Hey, you don't see me complaining they stay there and don't migrate to Lemmy. I'm pretty fine with that.
- I realized that Lemmy being slightly more difficult to get started would mean that the user base will be smaller, but fewer low-effort people would make the switch, so it's really a plus.
  
  I disagree. Us more tech-savvy people will come across, sure. But most people aren't. And they have hobbies and jobs too, and want a place to gather online for that.
- I see this as an absolute win!
- I agree 👍

Someone throw a padlock on that group to keep them in Reddit.
- Please!
  I'm all for freedom of speech, but I'm really irked by the lengths people go to just to be offensive.
  
  r/conservative is also not a place for free speech. They ban people for asking questions.
- Well, voat is gone (i think), but Saidit is Right there, mostly empty and waiting for them, hopefully they'll go there and stay there. i actually saw people suggesting saidit to other people last week, so fingers crossed.
  
  🤞

so basically, "we mods are boycotting but we can't act like we actually agree with the other protests."
typical conservative contrarian bullshit as always.
- It's not a terrible strategy. Reddit can remove mods and reopen a subreddit but if you turn off automod, any extra moderation bots and let shit run wild then reddit has a problem.
  Weaponize the assholes that mods usually have to deal with by giving them full reign.
  
  Assuming those mods stay true to their word then 2 days of hell being allowed to happen might actually be worse overall for the sub.
  
  Couldn't help but notice your username.
  Any Cosmere communities over here yet? I haven't seen anything from 17s or elsewhere.
  Journey before destination, Radiant.

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.
- Makes sense. I caught a bit of late Slashdot then went RSS to news sources for a while, then Reddit. I didn't have informed and fleshed out view of the political spectrum at that time to notice. Maybe I've gobbled up some shit that I had to undo later. This reminds me that I miss the Slashdot comment labels. A FOSS platform like Lemmy could be a place to experiment with it.
  
  That's what happened to me back in the day. Being young and naive, definitely picked up some things I had to undo and look back with cringe.
- 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.)
- 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.

Well, you don't need third party apps with good moderation tools if you just don't moderate anything. /s
- R/Conservative does moderate. They ban anyone who even whispers anything slightly against their political views. Even if it's quoting Trump himself.
  
  I tried to get banned by commenting about someone being brainwashed in the thread about Trump’s indictment. The post I replied to was basically “If trump is convicted I’ll officially consider myself living in a dictatorship”.
  I unfortunately didn’t get banned from the subreddit, just a warning for ‘harassment.’

So a corporate douche CEO wants to screw over their own userbase in the name of money alone and they are 100% onboard with opposing the boycott/protest...
...but are perfectly fine harassing and threatening stock workers at Target over Pride Month displays, outright absurd-levels of "boycotting" because of a limited-edition can with Bud Light, and the whole Chick-Fil-A DEI hire?
- it’s a cult. (always has been.)
- I don’t think it’s about morals…
- Yes, perfectly on brand.

For a brief period of time I was on a place on Reddit where new users could get help finding their way around the site.
Someone shows up there and says, "I'm not sure why I'm even on this libt++d communist site, nobody here will respect the way any good conservative American thinks."
I'm thinking, OK, snowflake, don't melt so hard from being a victim, but I responded with, "You might try /r/Conservative, and I can ask their moderators if they have any other suggestions."
I did so: I sent the moderators of /r/Conservative a message explaining what I was looking for and asking for any advice they might have for this new user. The response I got back was, "LOL, F+++ off."
Lovely, lovely people there.
(100% that good conservative American was on the libt++d communist site for the free porn.)
- Yeah I tried a few good faith attempts there. People would post asking why there was "no evidence of x" or why "this has never happened" or why "liberals are too afraid to answer y". So I'd link a news article, or a summary of the argument they were asking about.
  I think I ended up getting 6 different accounts banned before I gave up.
  edit: Also kind of funny how often they'd brag about never banning anyone, while being one of the most ban-happy subs on the platform.
  
  I had something similar happen to me in r/republican. Pre-Trump, it actually wasn't a bad subreddit. You could have relatively civil discussions in there. I often used it to see and ask how Republicans/Conservatives thought about various things. I always tried to be respectful, understanding that that the wasn't "my sub." I flaired myself with a 'D' or something so it'd be obvious that I wasn't hiding and trolling. Had some OK discussions in there the few times I'd dare to chime in.
  But it changed once Trump started running. I once was having a civil discussion with a user, trying to understand their take, and ended up linking to an article from a large, mainstream publication, to show what I was talking about.
  I was banned with no comment. When I politely asked mods what I did wrong and if I could be unbanned if I promised to not do whatever I did again, I got the message: "Don't link liberal sources." And it wasn't a liberal source! Just something not from Fox or wherever. From then on, I could lurk, but I could never comment.
  And the mods got crazier. I'd see that they'd remove comments and ban anyone, even Republicans, who spoke out against Trump. At that point, there was no reason to go there anymore.
  
  Oh, yeah. The subs that claim they never ban are the ones with the biggest ban hammers.
  There used to be some really icky subreddit dedicated to... basically being a bunghole. "Public Health Watch", I think. It was anti-LGBTQ+, anti-women, anti-just about everything. Everything was a threat to these poor little pseudo-incels (they couldn't even be incels right). I forget how I stumbled on it, but one day one of them posted a link to a study that "proved" something about women and their sexuality and how it damaged men and I don't remember clearly, but their conclusion was so stupid. So I read the damn study and it explicitly said the exact opposite of what they said. I replied with whole paragraphs from the study showing that the study said disagreed with what that post claimed. I was banned within minutes.
  On the one hand, I kinda get it: I regularly deal with pseudoscientists who cherry pick through studies to find one or two sentences that agrees with them, instead of what the study actually says, and claim I'm "interpreting" the study wrong. On the other hand, when you're the cherry-picker, you don't get to be angry when someone else reads the rest of the words and finds out you're the dimwit.
  
  I got banned because I called healthcare, daycare, education, and paternity leave "pro-life" measures.
  Granted, I didn't belong there, but I tried to regularly converse in good faith... which they never really deserved anyway.
  
  I'm impressed that you managed to find 6 posts that weren't "flared users only."

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?
- That's pretty much been the entire conservative movement's MO for 30 years now.
  
  Reactionary contrarianism is basically the conservative’s signature move.
- undefined> “They’re doing a thing so we’ll do the opposite”
  That's their gameplan most of the time.
- They don't understand. So they're going against the popular movement. Fear is a bitch 🗿
- Opportunism - they just want to profit from the black out to push their own sub. As often, the conservative principles (or in this case rules) are not so important if you can gain any success by ignoring them.
- I do, they’re fucking stupid
  
  Couldn't have said it better myself!
- I think they hope all the other opinions will go away and they'll get their favorite thing, an echo chamber.
- I don't hate it. I'm sure some truly vile shit will get posted. Might be enough to get them banned off the site lol.
  
  Again? The real nutballs went off to form patriots.win, after they hilariously lost their preferred domain name in an act of negligence (and/or ignorance.) I could see them pulling the same trick again, forming up a Lemmy node that no one else would federate with a 10' pole.
- I see you're not familiar with American conservatives. This is how they operate. They're just not always so open.

/r/conservative tomorrow be like
- Holy smokes I forgot about epic rap battles!!!!!!
  
  Rasputin v. Stalin (v. Lenin v. Gorbachev v. Putin) still pops unbidden into my mind, especially in light of current events.
  I'm the host with the most glasnost!
  
  They’ve slowed down considerably, but ERB still put out new ones a handful of times a year and the quality is still pretty damn high!

Boots ain't gonna lick themselves...
- maybe if you pull them up by the bootstraps gently...

They won't leave a single boot unlicked
- It's more like, compulsive contrarianism.
  Oh yeah, everyone else is gonna STOP using reddit? Well we're just gonna double down!
- Well, to be fair, Conservatives see an endgame to make Reddit conservative hell-hole and to re-appriate like Twitter. The opportunity for them to have the cover of legitimacy of an established brand while forcing their regressive politics. I have to give them credit -- it's a bold move and hopefully it won't pay out
- Yep. They're scabs, crossing the virtual picket line.
- We deep throat the whole boot.
- That's how you get boot herpes...

I wonder, will it be actual shitposting or will it just be them dropping the mask and calling that shitposting
- It’s gonna be this. You will see the most racist and hideous stuff.
  
  I mean, I kind of appreciate the fact that the mods decided to do this, because they know very well how this'll turn out. Letting such a rancid community out of leash while many of the wholesome communities are on a break is going to be a shitshow worth remembering, and just the kinda stuff that's going to drop Reddit stock in the eyes of advertisers.
  With corporate, appealing to morals or ethical conduct is usually pointless. Hitting their potential evaluation though...
  
  it's definitely gonna be some schrödinger's asshole type stuff
- Yes

Nothing says conservative like being happy about big and sudden changes.
- Well you've got to remember that these big and sudden changes are great because they benefit the ruling class which the conservatives will eventually become once they've pulled their bootstraps tight enough.
  It's just basic logic.
  /s

Oh my, if they were really brave they would un-ban all the supposed liberals that ever slightly ruffled their feathers.
- Its not like leftist subreddits never banned Slight opposed viewpoints from conservatives. Both sides are bad when it comes to censorship
  
  In my experience while the amount of moderating done was comparable, the actual content that got removed was different.
  In left spaces you would often see people with conservative opinions getting banned and deleted... After they started saying slurs or insulting people. Some people would argue that whether or not something is considered a slur or an insult is a difference in political opinion, but those kinds of things are already against the reddit site-wide rules so it's moot.
  In places like r/conservative, people would get banned for being aggressive and insulting people, but also for ever presenting an opinion that isn't strictly in line with modern conservatism. The moderators of that subreddit used bans to remove any and all dissent no matter how severe or mild.
  
  This is true to an extent, however from my experience, leftist subs are much more lenient on discourse if it isn't blatantly abrasive or offensive or trolling.
  
  That sub in particular is just notable for banning people for even mild "offenses". I found a post from it on r/all and asked a comment for a source on a claim they made and got permabanned for it calling me a troll.
  
  I feel like there's a difference between being banned for "this country was built by immigrants" or "racism and nazis are bad" and "vaccines are Satan's poison" and "trans people need to be eradicated".
  
  mUh BoTh SIdEs!!!11one!!
  The difference is you get banned from the conservative subreddits for questioning them about trivial bullshit and from the liberal subreddits for denying people their existence.
  
  Was it equal? I’ll take your word for it :-)
  
  That's really only balanced truth if we're comparing rank-and-file conservative subs with the most extreme alt-left subs that even most leftists avoided. If you gotta compare r/conservative to r/latestagecapitalism, that says everything.
  The rest of the time, you got r/conservative banning people for "maybe Jews aren't part of a conspiracy to kill everyone" comparing with r/liberals banning people for saying that they should be thrown out of a helecopter

Is there a reason why they're doing this? Blackout's not even political. They just want to be contrarian to everything.
- Sort of. Despite being over a million subs for about a year now (maybe more or less, I forget), they try to push the narrative that they are complete Reddit outcasts and are treated unfavorably compared to other political subs. I wouldn't be surprised if they see this as their way of becoming the predominant political sub on the site now that Reddit is falling apart.
  
  I mean, they aren't treated well by other users, they don't deserve to be and shouldn't be. Paradox of tolerance and all that. They have their echo chamber and leaving it means a bad time. They are still treated well by the platform itself.
  
  The entire conservative political philosophy is based on being a martyr. They better be careful, or they're gonna become the dog that caught the car, just like on Twitter.
- Not allowing unfettered corporate greed to ruin things is leftist propaganda!
- Pretty sure they figure it's all the "Leftist Libtard" subs going dark and so, yeah, they're gonna be congrarian to that. And, at the core, the blackout is about sharing tools to produce a more inclusive community. And that's the sort of thing /r/conservative is staunchly against. So it makes sense they'd go out of their way to go contrary to that.
- That’s basically their entire ideology anyway so kinda fits.
- I assumed the idea was to fill reddit with trash content. A lot of subs didn’t go dark, so flooding the homepage with trash content will pollute the existing experience.
  
  Going dark fulfills a whole bunch of objectives, filling up with trash is one of them, it's fewer eyes seeing ads because less content, people subbed to subreddits that went dark are getting a stream of messages saying the execs at reddit fucked up and are providing alternatives like discord and Lemmy, and anyone who even dabbled with fediverse relates stuff like mastodon are getting messages and emails capitalizing on the mass Exodus saying hey come to limmy, we're like reddit but decentralized.
  
  Their posts don't seem to deviate much from their usual posts. Target achieved, I guess?
  
  That'll pull in a lot of new users. Conservatives and chuds will see it and flock there. Wouldn't surprise me if any of the investors eyeing the IPO were among them.
  
  I doubt their content is making fp
- Many conservatives are convinced that Reddit is basically a communist website at this point, so anything Reddit approves of MUST be bad
  
  Which is both sad and hilarious. That anyone could be that stupid to actually believe that. And then to realize that this is how poorly people in Western nations are educated.
  
  Well, Reddit the Community. Reddit the Company clearly doesn't approve of the blackout.

Always needing to be the contrarian, no matter the subject or how it may hurt them as well.

One would think that a platform killing third party apps and forcing consolidation of users into their app would set some alarms off in the minds of the "we freedom oorah come and take it" party. Unfortunately they don't even pretend to match the branding on the tin.
- Freedom for me but not for thee
  
  Freedom for corporations above all
- Well, no. See, it’s a private corporation doing this. In the pursuit of money. So they can’t be wrong. Jesus said so in the Bible.
  
  "Cash moves everything around us. Get the money. Dolla dolla bills y'all."
  -Jesus Christ, Corinthians 69 420
- To a conservative, freedom is second or third behind respecting authority and corporations are king.
  There is a reason they love Trump - he's a wanna be dictator. There's a reason they cheer tax cuts for business and the wealthy while they get screwed.

Oh nice, good to see r/conservative doing their absolute best to get people to avoid Reddit.
- This, but unironically.

so i did cave in and open https://libreddit.kavin.rocks/conservative/new and i promise you all, if this was an ironic subreddit, i would've pinned this to my browser.
it's just too goofy right now and they're all so proud, i cant help but love it.
i hope they continue to "conserve" reddit LOL. @bumblefumble said it best:
"Nothing says conservative like being happy about big and sudden changes."
EDIT: replaced link with libreddit alternative
- Nothing says conservative like failing to see the hypocrisy of your own ideology.
- I rather like this trend of conservatives and their like piling up the mainstream social media, leaving the decentralization and smaller medias to those with more progressive thinking.
  It feels like things are upside down when I see it happen the other way around.
  
  I'd consider myself conservative. I'd say they were going to alternate platforms long ago. That was everyone's complaint about all the so-called alternatives is that they leaned heavily right.
  Not even sure how r/conservative was allowed to live. Many are misreading their intentions about staying open during the blackout. They want to just not moderate and let everyone go hogwild so it looks like shit. Still proves the point that reddit leaves and breathes by users and moderators goodwill. I prefer the blackout and don't use it method though and that's why I'm here.

Conservative ego is so easy to make a plaything of. What a bunch of blind lemmings.
- The supposed tendency of lemmings to run blindly off cliffs is greatly exaggerated, too, and based on a 'documentary' where they were pushed off one by a human. A tiny group of documentarians abused some lemmings and ruined their reputation forever.
  tldr I'm proud to be a lemming :) Let's rejuvenate the reputation of lemmings the animal.
  That said, I did enjoy the old "Lemmings" video game, featuring rather human-shaped lemmings that you had to prevent from falling to their deaths.
  
  We are all Lemmings on this blessed day!
  
  I think my brain cheated for vocabulary without me knowing.

Conservatives... more like contrarians.
- I was just about to say, "why do they always do the opposite of the right/smart thing?".
  Oh yeah, because they don't really have values, they just want to do the opposite of everything they consider woke.
- Can't go on strike, that would be communist!
- "Solidarity" is a four letter word for some people

So… a bunch of hateful, ignorant jerks are going to be even more obnoxious than usual? And they think that’s a good thing?
If the blackouts aren’t enough to drive people away, this will. Congratulations, reddit! You’re getting the user base you deserve!
- Yep, seeing /r/conservative at the top or /r/all was enough to convince me to just close Reddit completely.
  
  Yep. Flashbacks to the time /r/the_donald shitposts covered the front page. What a horrible time
- I was hoping to see it brigaded a ton but unfortunately a quick peek confirms they are just posting some vile anti LGBTQ+ crap.
  
  Par for the course.
  Posts like that actually deserve to be brigaded, but nobody wants to throw rocks at the hornet’s nest. Honestly, I can’t blame people for avoiding and ignoring that cesspool.

Reddit is the new Parler
- At least it's not Gab.
- Have always been

Typical conservatives. Everyone else is fighting for the greater good and they've opted to selfish children.
- 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.
  
  Gotta admire their ingenuity in taking advantage of people.

Since when were they against shitposts?
- It's basically their policies

I looked on RiF, and that post seems to be gone and the subreddit seems to be going strong with its usual braindead takes.
- I'm hoping that this blackout extends, and many of the subs that remain active are the shitty ones that make Reddit look bad.
- I would expect nothing more from that cesspit.

The enshittification of reddit.

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.
- Why in the world would we do anything less than shit on the Nazis?
  
  United we stand in shitting on the Nazis.
  
  My grandpa did espionage for the US AF back in ww2 against the nazis while he was stationed in Europe. If he were alive to see his political affiliations become the nazi party he would have had a mental break. We need to start putting reruns of bugs bunny against the nazis on TV again. Maybe dust Harrison Ford off one more time for a geriatric final fight against the nazis lol!
- Agreed. I'll keep shitting on the Nazis.
  But seriously, your post makes some strong assumptions with nothing to back them up. For example that depriving advertisers from impressions from a shit ton of users (due to the missing content) and therefore depriving Reddit from that revenue would hurt less than leaving those impressions but attach more garbage content to the ads. If anything, more enshittified platforms like Facebook and garbage media like Fox have proven that advertisers can live with quite a bit of shit around their ads. And so the assertion that this is some 4D chess move on the side of the Nazis doesn't hold water for me.
  The time-limited strike argument is also flimsy. Nothing stops the mod community to do this again next week for longer or even indefinitely. The time limit doesn't guarantee Reddit that this won't happen again and for longer. And so I don't see how that's less scary than indefinite strike.
  
  The time to do it next would be right before or during the IPO. Mods and users have tipped their hand though. If anyone working at Reddit has even the tiniest bit of foresight, they should see that coming now and have a plan in place to react or preempt it.
- Except that‘s not what they are doing. They are still going to enforce reddit tos. Bootlickers. That‘s essentially all reddit cares abou anyway.
  
  Damn, I thought they were going out in a blaze of glory weekendgunnit style on the first glance. Self-immolating a sub instead of just returning to the new status quo is more effective than this blackout will ever be.
- Lmao homie really said “whatever, keep shitting on the nazis” like it was some kind of gotcha.
  We will, and we don’t need your permission.
- r/therewasanattempt is doing similar, on their own terms.
  
  /r/anarchychess did it and only made it like a couple hours lol

Everything about that post screams brainrot. It's so incredibly well woven that it might as well be unintentional art.

Wow, and I thought all the subs leaving + shutting down was bad enough. Now, advertisers are going to see this remaining subreddit flooded with racist and bigoted memes no doubt.
An appropriate legacy for the subreddit. Very "on brand." 🤣
- And their ads showing only on those posts, cause that's all the posts there is. 🤔🥲
- Turbo mode of enshittification

time to see this advanced conservative humor I keep hearing about.

Oh god, I shouldn't have looked. Their idea of free speech is posting obvious propaganda and shitting on minorities. Classic
- Free speech on r/conservative does not include dissent. Celebrate terribleness, or it's the ban-hammer.
- 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.
  
  Or they'll start a prayer circle in hopes that a benevolent billionaire will buy it and remove the site wide rules so they can really wallow in their own filth. Which is more likely considering their version of 4D chess is flipping the board and making claims of actually being the winner.
  
  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.
- free ^hate speech
- 5D Chess to get the community permanently closed lol

$10 says the "special surprise" is a shout out/recruitment post from something like "truth social" (or wherever they hangout nowadays) to go takeover what's left of Reddit.
- Is Voat still a thing or did it die off after the initial wave of hateful bigots migrated and nobody else?
  
  Damn, I just looked it up and they shut down in 2020. Long story short, they went anti-woke, then went broke.
  
  It ran out of money and shut down years ago.
- The kiss of death!
- Or an AMA with the dumpster fire cult leader they all worship.

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

"Instead of the blackout, we're going to make posting easier! We're definitely helping!"
Sweet Jesus, that's some brain-dead logic.
- I mean.. what can we expect from their collective 3 neurons?
- In a roundabout way, it kinda does.
  If a bunch of losers take their rule holiday as "post whatever I want without consequence" it will make the IP less valuable to potential investors. Killing the value of Reddit may actually be more effective than protesting the changes, it's just more of a "burn everything down on the way out" strategy.
  
  They're still enforcing site-wide rules, which means anything actually toxic to Reddit's brand will be covered. Really the go ahead on shit-posting is likely to drive engagement and post count. Doubt it will be anything substantial, but definitely not harmful. If their intent is a mod strike kinda thing, they haven't thought it through too much.

Does this mean everyone who's been banned from r/Conservative can post freely today?
- Can you imagine? People asking for sources and otherwise ruining r/conservative?

Man, I was just posting how I feel like we're losing all of our core media social platforms... It's hard for me to not feel like there's some level of orchestration going on
- There is. It's the mandatory, perpetual search for profit under the current economic model. In case you haven't read this excellent piece on the topic. It circulated here a few days ago under another poster expressing similar concerns.
  E: Here, found the discussion. The article is still an insightful read.
  
  Fantastic article, thanks for sharing! I had a hard time trying to figure out how to reply to you since we're on different domains, but I found a reply button in my message notifications... The pains of learning a new platform!
  I'm excited to read some more articles from Pluralistic :)
  
  That was fascinating and depressing.
  We should nationalize the big tech companies, or at least mandate that they operate on open protocols. There is no good reason to allow these mega tech companies to keep making profits off the back of the value that is almost entirely created by the users. Especially when making those profits makes the product worse for the very users that make it's existence possible.
  
  Lmao, Lemmy has hit "hug of death" levels

Internet post-ironic conservatism is the gift that keeps giving. God I love being an American.

A lil worried about their "special surprise." What could they even do that would be surprising given the abhorrent stuff that already comes out from that sub?
- Get some of Trump's ~~offsprings~~ minions to prominently join Reddit and post a rant about their daddy in /r/Conservative?
  
  That wouldn't be surprising though, that's their brand. I was thinking more like if they were planning to stage another January 6th or something.
- I'm sure that whatever it is will help Reddit look great to advertizers /s

- There is good probability that with people leaving reddit will become a conservative shit hole.
  
  That seems to be the trend for failed social media sites.
  
  Same as twitter huh. This is wild stuff
- Id bet money this is exactly what they wanted.
  It's free real estate for them now. They'll gain from this.

The special surprise is they got one of Trump's turds and they're all gonna split it

No surprises 🥰

As always, yucky

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?)
- A boot is a boot.
- Is it possible they critical thinking and research ability?
- 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.
  
  spez is a cunt

The propaganda machine has no days off!

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.