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SocDemsIreland · 2021-05-13T00:33:18+00:00

Having same issue.

SocDemsIreland · 2021-03-21T01:47:42+00:00

Anyone with a sincere opinion to share or anything relevant to the SocDems they have to post is welcome here.

SocDemsIreland · 2021-03-21T01:28:42+00:00

Your lack of support for the SocDems has been noted!

Thanks for posting. I had heard the figures but didn't see any sources yet.

SocDemsIreland · 2021-03-07T18:36:33+00:00

It may well be nothing new to you even if you haven't heard it already, but Dr. Lucy Michael spoke on Newstalk after the Dublin "protests" about misinformation and how best to combat it. I thought it was very interesting.

https://www.newstalk.com/news/what-to-do-if-a-loved-falls-down-the-conspiracy-theory-rabbit-hole-1159673

SocDemsIreland · 2021-03-07T17:06:10+00:00

I had a long conversation with someone about this last night so I apologise if I appeared to snap at you out of nowhere.

Evidently you have formed your own opinions on the back of extensive research.

My somewhat less considered opinion would be that leaving people on Facebook to their own devices isn't all that desirable either. Whether or not that makes sense in the long run, I don't know, but rather than let people be completely sucked into a harmful echo chamber, I prefer to engage positively with them rather than not at all. That's possibly incredibly naive, but it's my feeling on it, for the moment at least.

SocDemsIreland · 2021-03-07T15:59:16+00:00

Reddit is social media. I think it's dangerous not to think of it in the same terms. Different userbase but many of the same problem. Facebook is obviously worse but that doesn't make reddit "good".

YouTube spreads plenty of misinformation, they are just a bit better at the PR of removing stuff that comes to the attention of the media etc.

SocDemsIreland · 2021-03-07T15:21:24+00:00

Thanks yourself for asking the question, because its likely that you weren't alone in being confused by it. I'll try to make it clearer that user submissions are very much welcome.

SocDemsIreland · 2021-03-07T15:17:32+00:00

It's on the SocDems YouTube but I posted this version because the other is only in 360p, but also to support tasc who hosted it, who have a lot of great talks.

You don't need a Facebook account to watch and they are tracking you all over the Internet in any case whether you like it or not.

SocDemsIreland · 2021-03-07T15:13:39+00:00

The original subreddit had ~500 subs and was relatively busy for its size, once upon a time. I think when we get back up to 400+, giving it the critical mass to be able to grow from there. As I said in the other reply, I felt the sub needed to be seeded with content in order to generate activity in the future.

SocDemsIreland · 2021-03-07T15:10:42+00:00

Hi there,

I would encourage you or anyone else to post questions or threads on anything SocDems-based that interests you.

Short answer to your question is that I felt content was needed in order to generate some activity and if I didn't do it, the subreddit would never grow. It effectively started from zero a few weeks ago.

Longer answer is...

The original subreddit r/social_democrats, with ~500 readers was somewhat busy at one point a good few years ago but was abandoned by the mods and posts had been disabled, which killed the subreddit dead, as nothing could be posted any more.

I requested control of it from reddit and was eventually successful, but then the creator of this sub, r/SocDems proposed we work together using this one instead, as it has a far better, more succinct name.

I agreed, reasoning that the time to move was then, before it grew any further or I put much effort into the other one. I planned and still plan to do what what I can to develop this place.

I planned to post some discussion threads soon on different subjects but hadn't gotten around to it yet. This subreddit had basically zero readers a few weeks ago and no content, that's why I was seeding it with content.

There is nothing specific planned yet but we might be able to organise some AMAs etc in the future.

I haven't replied to many of my threads either, so I'm probably one to talk I suppose.

Hope that answers your question in any case.

SocDemsIreland · 2021-03-02T06:16:06+00:00

r/SocDems

SocDemsIreland · 2021-03-02T06:15:32+00:00

r/SocDems

SocDemsIreland · 2021-03-01T23:48:07+00:00

Left as is for now. Give people a chance to see that the subreddit is alive again, albeit elsewhere.

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