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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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