• MeldrikEnglish
    7•11 hours ago

    I’m putting the tinfoil hat on here, but wouldn’t it be rather easy to have some users go and post stuff like that in the subreddit? How many upvotes did those comments get?

    At least on Lemmy, the votes are public, so manipulation can be discovered.

    Also, if those posts were talking about Hamas, Hezbollah or maybe Russia, would that also have shut down the subreddit?

    • @[email protected]English
      3•6 hours ago

      I’m putting the tinfoil hat on here, but wouldn’t it be rather easy to have some users go and post stuff like that in the subreddit? How many upvotes did those comments get?

      Sure, but why whitepeopletwitter of all places? If they’re trying to disrupt dissent surely there are more effective places to put their energy

      • @[email protected]English
        1•5 hours ago

        Sure, but why whitepeopletwitter of all places? If they’re trying to disrupt dissent surely there are more effective places to put their energy

        Not that I think this is what happened, but I think the answer is actually really straightforward - how quickly will reddit bend the knee? Let’s find out.

        Thats all it would take is a random thought to get there.

        Again, not what I think happened. Enough people elsewhere saying the same things that its bound to get commented in a reddit thread as well.

        I do, however, think Musk pushed for the entire sub to get banned, or spez did it proactively as a show of support (with a hope to bury his nose in Musk crack).