Comment on Will the government be able to put 2 & 2 together
Luckaneer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
This reminds me of how Obama posted his hugely popular AMA on Reddit within a year of all the news coverage of all the sick and gross subreddits (pics of dead kids, jailbait etc).
Seems that if a site is big enough shit like this doesn’t matter.
mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 1 day ago
which is why we’re discussing this on reddit? naw, it does matter, an it builds up into an undeniable train of gross that forces people to other means of communication. Bluesky and Lemmy aren’t perfect but they’re fantastic compared to the monied shitholes they’re replacing.
Luckaneer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
I suppose what I mean is that from a Government perspective, evidence points to all kinds of shit being forgivable if the platform is big enough.
Hell arguably, aside from replacing Digg, being the wild west of forums is what gave Reddit the volume of audience that would guarantee it the likes of Obama.
I know we’re not on Reddit now but the final nail in the coffin that got us all here was API changes to Reddit killing third party clients, not it’s history that came before that.