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Not to mention that reddit basically pushed the_donald to its own website by removing all the mods and only allowing new ones they help handpick. Which has been zero to the best of my knowledge.

I’m actually surprised with how good the software powering theDonald dot win has become. I stalk them to see what kind of bananas they are throwing around and it’s a more pleasant experience than reddit is these days.



To be fair The_Donald was not really the champion of free speach themselves. They did absolutely everything they could to silence anyone who did not 110% agree with their views.

This post pretty much sums up T_D:

https://www.reddit.com/r/BannedFromThe_Donald/comments/6thno...


/r/The_Donald did not pretend to be anything it is not. /r/BernieSanders operates in the same way.

The problem is when /r/politics, /r/news, /r/worldnews, etc. do so as well.


It's a monolith in terms of ideology and content, they face no challenges in terms of managing tensions within its community of users.




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