Reddit

   Reddit, established in 2005, marketing itself as the "frontpage of the
   [1]Internet", was an extremely successful, popular and a quite nice
   website for sharing links, ideas and leading discussions about them,
   before it got absolutely destroyed by [2]capitalists right before they
   year 2020. It used to be a forum with great amount of [3]free speech and
   with quite enjoyable, plain user interface; in a swift turn of events
   however it flipped completely over and is now among the worst, most
   [4]censored sites on the whole [5]web, a place [6]toxic with [7]SJW fumes
   and its site is literally unusable for the amount of [8]bloat and [9]ads
   it employs. Never visit the site if you don't have to.

   Reddit users are the kind of "moderate rebels", the sort of absolutely
   insignificant people who think they're doing heroic acts by changing a
   profile picture or sharing a mildly unpopular opinion on [10]Facebook,
   like "I actually think [11]piracy is not bad! Take this
   [12]corporations!". [13]Nowadays the users are exclusively [14]SJWs, all
   the popular post are attempts at [15]virtue signaling and circlejerking,
   you'll find annoying propaganda inserted into absolutely unrelated
   subreddits, e.g. in a subreddit for sharing interesting pictures the all
   time top post will be something like a motivational tweet by Zelenski or
   some other [16]gay (of course there are now annoying sponsored posts
   inserted in too, literally makes you wanna [17]kill yourself). Very
   infamous are for example reddit [18]atheists who are very enlightened by
   Neil De Grass documentaries, they don't understand how a medieval peasant
   could believe in irrational things, conform to orthodox preaching and
   participate in witch hunts, but if you suggest [19]removing the age of
   consent or opposing [20]feminism they pick up the torches and go full
   angry mob yelling "Stone that heretic to death!" That's because they're
   just trained to react to [21]key words, they can't do much more.

   Before the infamous censorship wave circa 2019 reddit used to be quite a
   beautiful place to behold, truly an experience unlike anything else (maybe
   a bit comparable to [22]Usenet). { I used to actually love reddit, sad it
   died. ~drummyfish } It's hard to sum up to someone who didn't experience
   reddit back then, it found a great mix of excellent ideas that just worked
   great together, a combination mainly of [23]free speech (that's completely
   gone now, it's almost comical to remember reddit used to be one of the
   "bastions of free speech" back then), nice minimalist user interface (also
   gone now), having many subforums for all kinds of niche communities, even
   the smallest you can imagine (like people who like round objects or people
   who try to talk without using some specific letter because they hate it
   etc.), sharing of [24]interesting links and/or ideas, having a
   non-traditional comment system structured as a [25]tree and letting people
   vote on both posts and individual comments to bring up the ones they found
   most valuable (i.e. informative, funny, interesting etc.). Users also
   gathered so called "karma", a kind of points they accumulated for getting
   upvotes, so users had some sort of "level" -- the more karma, the more
   "elite" the user was (users could also gift so called reddit gold for
   excellent posts, basically giving the user a free premium account for a
   while); this often led to so called karma whoring, i.e. things like
   [26]clickbaits, virtue signaling posts and basically the lame stuff you'd
   often see on [27]Facebook, something highly criticized for example by
   [28]4chan. Anyway, reddit was like an whole new Internet within the
   Internet, it was just a place where you could spend hours searching and
   discovering things you didn't even know you wanted to find -- any hobby or
   any detail you had a morbid curiosity about you could dig up on reddit,
   you could find large interviews with ambulance drivers who told
   fascinating stories they saw during their careers, schizophrenic people
   answering questions like "can you walk through the imaginary people you
   see?", discussions like "what's the weirdest thing that happened to you as
   a beekeeper", people digging out extremely weird videos on YouTube,
   solving mysteries in video games, even famous people like Barak Obama took
   part in reddit IAMA interviews and just answered all the weird questions
   the internet asked them. There were also porn communities and
   controversial communities like r/watchpeopledie where users just shared
   videos of people dying { This was my favorite, seeing people die and
   suffer was actually what led me to completely reject all violence later on
   in my life. ~drummyfish }. This was sort of the vanilla reddit experience.
   However, as they always do, money and [29]pseudoleftists soon swiftly
   killed all of this, a few greedy faggots just destroyed it all so that
   they could get even richer than they already were.

   What was the big moment? Basically in 2019 reddit presented one the most
   visible, greatest examples of a profit motivated 180 degree turn from a
   [30]free speech site to a [31]censorship dictatorship -- as some cock
   invested money to reddit, the reddit CEO just said yeah, let's make this
   advertisement friendly and ban all free speech on the site; there were
   hilarious historical moments like Alexis Ohanian, the co-founder of the
   site, saying "we never intended reddit to be the bastion of free speech"
   while someone actually found a quote of him saying the exact opposite in
   the past :D This shitstorm resulted in one of the greatest disasters to
   ever have happened on the Internet. Subreddits such as
   r/politicallyincorrect, r/Offensive_Wallpapers, r/watchpeopledie,
   r/necrophilia, r/PicsOfHorseVaginas, r/sjwhate, r/lovenotacrime,
   r/fatpeoplehate and THOUSANDS of others were all banned (you can probably
   still find them in archives, but you can no longer discuss of course). Of
   course those who criticized this were just banned too, anyone who showed a
   dislike of this got a "fuck you bitch" message from a mod with a swift
   ban. People not familiar with reddit or Internet too much perhaps didn't
   notice too much, but to an Internet citizen this was comparable to
   something like the Pope one day waking up, admitting to [32]atheism,
   dressing up as [33]Voldemort and starting to masturbate on the balcony,
   cumming on people while promoting nuclear war, all because someone paid
   him $1 to do it. Of course this was completely expected under
   [34]capitalism, reddit just showed a very rapid, "we don't give a shit
   about users or society or anything but money" kind of step, one that must
   show clear as day even to any blind idiot what capitalism really is about.
   After this many people left reddit for good { Including me. ~drummyfish },
   some migrated to alternative sites like [35]Voat, but it was never what it
   used to be, communities were fragmented and they mostly degenerated to
   small groups bitching about how reddit fucked up. At least it's a great
   lesson learned about "free market" society.

   Reddit had an extreme number of own [36]memes, [37]historical events,
   famous users, inside [38]jokes and jargon -- it was kind of like a whole
   country. Especially notable are the [39]acronyms that come from subreddit
   names and which reddit guys use in normal speech, like AMA (ask me
   anything), TIL (today I learned), TIFU (today I fucked up) or ELI5
   (explain like I'm 5) etc.

   Reddit is a famous rival to [40]4chan, it's basically the
   [41]pseudoleftist forum vs the [42]rightist forum -- the forums trashtalk
   each other, raid each other, make fun of each other and so on.

   Typical reddit thread after [43]SJW takeover looks like this:

     * [removed] +7000000
          * [removed] +20000
               * haha so hilarious, best thing I've ever read
               * [removed] -1000000
                    * [removed] +300000
                         * this changed my life
          * [removed] +123

Links:
1. internet.md
2. capitalism.md
3. free_speech.md
4. censorship.dm
5. www.md
6. toxic.md
7. sjw.md
8. bloat.md
9. marketing.md
10. facebook.md
11. piracy.md
12. corporation.md
13. 21st_century.md
14. sjw.md
15. virtue_signaling.md
16. gay.md
17. kys.md
18. atheism.md
19. pedophilia.md
20. feminism.md
21. shortcut_thinking.md
22. usenet.md
23. free_speech.md
24. interesting.md
25. tree.md
26. clickbait.md
27. facebook.md
28. 4chan.md
29. pseudoleft.md
30. free_speech.md
31. censorship.md
32. atheism.md
33. hitler.md
34. capitalism.md
35. voat.md
36. meme.md
37. history.md
38. jokes.md
39. acronym.md
40. 4chan.md
41. pseudoleft.md
42. left_right.md
43. sjw.md