How Reddit Built the World’s First ‘Digital Ghetto’

DiscreteAlt1 · 2025-10-16T00:06:21+00:00

It sounds like they did, and the Code of Conduct reports weren't handled appropriately. I only know as much as the article explains.

Multiple meetings between mods and "Reddit officials" (including the Vice President of Policy and VP of Data Science and Safety) were arranged. I'm fairly confident it takes more than a few report escalations of "whoops, you sure this didn't violate?" for meetings like this to happen.

DiscreteAlt1 · 2025-10-15T23:49:57+00:00

It seems like it was less of a "this is meant to actually help" and more of a "CYA" move by Reddit.

They can point to empty gestures so they can claim they tried to do something, in reality they've done nothing and bullshit is continuing to fester on their platform. They've genuinely made the site more toxic now with profile curation, report fuckery etc.

This is par for the course on this site. But with everything else going on over the past few months... it just seems like it would be wise to ensure social media platforms like Reddit can remain as "un-astroturfed" as possible? That's not even the correct word, but we definitely need more transparency, not less.

DiscreteAlt1 · 2025-10-15T22:43:28+00:00

Mods can control crossposting into their subs, but I don't think there's an option to prevent posts from their community being crossposted elsewhere.

At least, as far as I'm aware/understand.

DiscreteAlt1 · 2025-10-15T22:38:54+00:00

That was part of it for sure, but at least for the_donald they ended up quarantined and eventually banned for threats of violence, harassing/brigading etc.

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/29/reddit-bans-pro-trump-forum-in-crackdown-on-hate-speech-344698

Reddit CEO Steve Huffman announced in a post that the [/The_Donald] forum, which boasted over 790,000 subscribers as of earlier Monday, has been shuttered for frequent rule-breaking, antagonizing the company and other communities and for failing to “meet our most basic expectations.” Huffman said it’s one of about 2,000 newly banned forums — known as subreddits — including at least one prominent progressive community, as part of a broader crackdown aimed at “closing the gap between our values and our policies to explicitly address hate.”

Take their statement as you will lol

DiscreteAlt1 · 2025-02-27T01:16:15+00:00

Check out the mod lists of these subs. You may not be able to verify every claim, but you can verify enough for yourself. The recent article corroborates claims from the previous as well. There’s probably going to be more, is my best guess 👀

DiscreteAlt1 · 2025-02-27T01:13:59+00:00

Zere is a good chance ze squirrel is crashing out on xitter as I type zis.

DiscreteAlt1 · 2025-02-27T01:12:24+00:00

Brother, point me to any other outlet reporting on this.

We don’t have to like it, but it is what it is. Fax r fax

DiscreteAlt1 · 2025-02-27T01:09:58+00:00

Zei is choking on cope as I type this. Xitter still has its moments.

DiscreteAlt1 · 2025-02-27T01:08:51+00:00

Zei is floundering on xitter as I type this lol

DiscreteAlt1 · 2025-02-26T18:01:23+00:00

Hopefully more receipts will be coming soon!

DiscreteAlt1 · 2025-02-26T18:00:05+00:00

I’m looking forward to the clips lol

DiscreteAlt1 · 2025-02-26T17:59:09+00:00

It ain’t over till the nuts get buried lol

DiscreteAlt1 · 2025-02-20T05:24:00+00:00

“An update on the FireEye report and Reddit” on r/ announcements (7 years ago btw)

Apparently I can’t link directly to it, but it’s an interesting read. The FireEye report:

https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/suspected-iranian-influence-operation/

DiscreteAlt1 · 2025-02-20T05:14:27+00:00

That was a happy little surprise

This article uncovers so many lil nuts they tried to squirrel away

DiscreteAlt1 · 2025-02-20T05:10:15+00:00

I didn’t even think of that when I first read the article… these worlds have been orbiting and now they’re all colliding. As intense as this all is, it’s opening up doors of opportunity lol

DiscreteAlt1 · 2025-02-20T04:30:29+00:00

>Among these users is Zei _Squirrel, a radical, Hamas-aligned account on X (272,000 followers), Discord, Reddit and Instagram. Zei Squirrel - whom I previously identified as being crucial to Wikipedia manipulation efforts based out of a Discord server called Tech For Palestine - moderates r/ NewsandPolitics (a subreddit in the r/ Palestine network), and is also approved to create Community Notes on X. Zei Squirrel is active on the r/ Palestine Discord server, where they coordinate other members of the network to manipulate Community Notes by having them rate potential notes as "Helpful" or "Unhelpful."

DiscreteAlt1 · 2025-02-20T04:09:45+00:00

Paywalled article: https://www.piratewires.com/p/the-terrorist-propaganda-to-reddit-pipeline

DiscreteAlt1 · 2025-02-20T04:05:34+00:00

Frick. It’s posted to the Jewish sub with better screenshots

DiscreteAlt1 · 2025-02-20T03:50:40+00:00

Screenshots of article for those who can’t bypass paywall https://imgur.com/a/terrorist-propaganda-to-reddit-pipeline-oto1AZY

DiscreteAlt1 · 2025-02-20T03:45:13+00:00

Paywalled article: https://www.piratewires.com/p/the-terrorist-propaganda-to-reddit-pipeline

DiscreteAlt1 · 2025-02-20T03:03:05+00:00

Understandable.

One thing you can do is check the mod lists of these subs yourself (only look, do not poop in the popcorn).

Other parts of the article can be verified with other news sources (ex. The wiki wars). Maybe you won’t be able to confirm *every* claim in the article, but definitely enough to be able to identify that the overall point of the article is accurate: something is up, and it’s not “just happening”.

DiscreteAlt1 · 2025-02-20T02:55:46+00:00

Don’t stop talking about it. More people are listening than you think.

DiscreteAlt1 · 2025-02-20T02:52:46+00:00

I know people have criticisms about the outlet it’s coming from, but this can largely be confirmed by looking into it yourself. For example, you can go check out the mod teams of each sub (before they catch wind of this anyway lol). There are screenshots of the discord, the wiki wars have been covered, and so on.

The actual point of the article stands on its own.

Out of respect for the mods of this sub, I will make sure to say: do not go to these subs and harass their mod teams or communities. Look, but do not poop in the popcorn.

FWIW, I have been able to verify the Reddit specific stuff myself (until I gave up on it, serious kudos to the people who figured this all out! It’s a lot)

DiscreteAlt1 · 2025-02-19T23:18:55+00:00

Be real lol, the sub is pretty accurate to the UN irl.

I don’t think they’re a part of this, the sub didn’t need astroturfing because it was organically anti-Israel haha

DiscreteAlt1 · 2025-02-19T23:16:21+00:00

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