Reddit must now answer to its shareholders as well as its vocal users.

  • themachine
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    3 months ago

    Totally ignorant question from me - why not?

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      3 months ago

      They’re tankies. As in, supports the CCP kind of tankies.

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        3 months ago

        More specifically, “Tiananmen Square didn’t happen and if it did it’s good” kind of tankies.

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      3 months ago

      They are pretty controversial for a lot of (well founded) reasons, but I think the main thing in this case is that they are very heavy handed in their moderation, an odd place to go when trying to avoid censors

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      Yeah when I first made my account back in June, i was under the impression that it didnt matter what community you made an account on. They all are linked together. Over time it seems like some groups dont like other groups and defederate from them. Lemmy.ml was one if the biggest groups at the time, so I joined it