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Is there a reason why they're doing this? Blackout's not even political. They just want to be contrarian to everything.
Sort of. Despite being over a million subs for about a year now (maybe more or less, I forget), they try to push the narrative that they are complete Reddit outcasts and are treated unfavorably compared to other political subs. I wouldn't be surprised if they see this as their way of becoming the predominant political sub on the site now that Reddit is falling apart.
I mean, they aren't treated well by other users, they don't deserve to be and shouldn't be. Paradox of tolerance and all that. They have their echo chamber and leaving it means a bad time. They are still treated well by the platform itself.
Yeah, that's what I meant. They get a lot of well deserved hate, but some people on that sub act like the entire place is shadowbanned by the admins even though they've been getting away with blatantly breaking the TOS for years without getting banned.
Exactly. They just get mad because their hate fuelled opinions get shat on.
The entire conservative political philosophy is based on being a martyr. They better be careful, or they're gonna become the dog that caught the car, just like on Twitter.
Not allowing unfettered corporate greed to ruin things is leftist propaganda!
Thatβs basically their entire ideology anyway so kinda fits.
Pretty sure they figure it's all the "Leftist Libtard" subs going dark and so, yeah, they're gonna be congrarian to that. And, at the core, the blackout is about sharing tools to produce a more inclusive community. And that's the sort of thing /r/conservative is staunchly against. So it makes sense they'd go out of their way to go contrary to that.
I assumed the idea was to fill reddit with trash content. A lot of subs didnβt go dark, so flooding the homepage with trash content will pollute the existing experience.
Their posts don't seem to deviate much from their usual posts. Target achieved, I guess?
Don't you love it when your normal MO is the hot new thing?
Going dark fulfills a whole bunch of objectives, filling up with trash is one of them, it's fewer eyes seeing ads because less content keeping people scrolling, people subbed to subreddits that went dark are getting a stream of messages saying the execs at reddit fucked up and are providing alternatives like discord and Lemmy, and anyone who even dabbled with fediverse relates stuff like mastodon are getting messages and emails capitalizing on the mass Exodus saying hey come to lemmy, we're like reddit but decentralized.
That'll pull in a lot of new users. Conservatives and chuds will see it and flock there. Wouldn't surprise me if any of the investors eyeing the IPO were among them.
I doubt their content is making fp
True, but it will make home for people who are subbed.
Many conservatives are convinced that Reddit is basically a communist website at this point, so anything Reddit approves of MUST be bad
Which is both sad and hilarious. That anyone could be that stupid to actually believe that. And then to realize that this is how poorly people in Western nations are educated.
Well, Reddit the Community. Reddit the Company clearly doesn't approve of the blackout.