They exchanged messages just before the subreddit r/WhitePeopleofTwitter was given a temporary ban for 72 hours

    • droans@midwest.social
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      2 days ago

      There was that peak time back in the 2010s. Right after they got rid of all the worst hate communities but before they were taken over by astroturfing.

      Maybe like 2014-2015ish?

    • fmtx@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      Same. Joined at the Digg migration. Left at the 3rd party App-ocolypse. Reddit is dead. Or perhaps it’s more accurate to say that it’s a zombie: with more bots than actual human users, it’s the Dead Internet Theory in action.

      • Jerkface (any/all)@lemmy.ca
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        Exactly the two events that got me on and off Reddit. I use LibRedirect to rewrite any reddit links to proxies that only work about 15% of the time, and it really discourages me from even bothering…