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[–] 40 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

I think they did this to create a megathread for it. I dont think they have a function to move all comments from one post to another though.

Also, given how left leaning Reddit is nowadays (or maybe more accurately, how much Redditors hate Trump specifically), I would imagine there were probably a lot of comments that violated the rule about "don't wish death or harm on anyone else," which is honestly a rule that all humans should have the basic decency of applying to everything.

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  • [–] 19 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Reddit?! Left leaning?!?!

    Not in the subs I used to frequent. The lemexodus seemed to turn the place into a right wing dumpster fire.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    Yes!

    r/politics is the exception.

    But what’s left on reddit is usually far left russian propagnada surrogate subs, and centrist - far right content. The “social democratic left” demographic has severely shrunk.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    i remember reddit was mostly pro lgbtq and stuff

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Fine, then offer a megathread, but to remove posts that people have already started back-and-forth comment chains on is an authoritian attempt to control the conversation.

    I don't doubt that we'll see just a handful of new users on the Fediverse as a direct result of this.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Yeah I really hate that bullshit. megathreads always kill the discussion.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    The purpose of social media is to discuss things, not disseminate information. That is Wikipedia, or news sites. Tbf Reddit got its start as a news aggregator service. But to halt already started conversations... that really sucks.:-(

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    Yeah especially for a story like this it deserves new threads every couple hours as new information comes out and a new thread is needed to discuss it. Putting it on a mega thread means any discussion about new information just gets buried.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I agree. Does Lemmy have any such rule, or is that instance specific? I've seen a lot of questionable comments on the political communities here.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    There was a post saying it's too bad they missed, and I said "That's not the way," and got a mess of downvotes. People were arguing that me saying we shouldn't advocate for political assassination means that I'm enabling fascism. I don't even know what to say to that.

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