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This is likely why you see that.
Subreddits with strict rules were the best. Tight posting and commenting guidelines allowed them to avoid the homogenization that took over every major sub.
Those rules are never applied consistently.
They exist as cover to remove the things the community owners don’t want to see.
If that is the case … holy cow is everyone here wrong BIG time.
I mean…it’s Reddit? So it kinda fits?
Recently I tried to get some advice from some locals and posted in a larger subreddit.
Post got immediately removed because it’s a duplicate of a year old post which is only remotely related.
That place can be so stupid.
Join the conversation
Uh, no thanks.
That was the part that made me laugh.
“You’re free to join the conversation”
“Am I?”
“Fifty thousand people used to live here; now it’s a ghost town”
This is what walled gardens create. Loss of information
Basically r/news except it’s all [removed] or [ Removed by Reddit ]
My question us where everyone went. They don’t seem to have joined the Fediverse.
TikTok? YouTube? Blue Sky?
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“[deleted]” means a user removed it. It’s probably users who nuked their accounts (I’m one of them!)
Dictatorship. Voting is democracy, and they don’t want you to have it.
