• Arsen6331 ☭
    8•2 years ago

    I saw it happening. It was very strange. One day, I started seeing electorialists pop up, and then a couple weeks later, there were full-on libs. They were downvoted heavily, but then that just stopped happening and now it’s basically normal for there to be multiple libs and anarchists in every post of the previously communist subreddits.

    I personally believe it was very intentional and done by some surveillance agency somewhere, because massive subreddits don’t just fundamentally change over the span of a couple weeks.

    • @OrnluWolfjarl@lemmygrad.ml
      2•2 years ago

      I’ve seen this happen in other reddit alternatives before. Usually fascists and/or feds will organize and set up themselves the communities for the communists with them as moderators. They let these communities fill up with actual communists, and then they call on their buddies to come in and brigade, while they do nothing about it or even silence the communists. The community is then taken over by them, the communists become demoralized and the platform loses the majority of its users.

      I think it’s a scheme to both keep Reddit alive and to prevent communists from having their own place to organize. Sometimes they even brag about it as having “trollled” the communists.