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I just learned what the hell a Groyper is (discuss.online)

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[–] SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

It's probably not a stretch to say that reddit was instrumental in the ride of the modern alt-reich movement

[–] OctopusNemeses@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Reddit is ground zero for the whole umbrella of far right incels. What you talking about stretch. I'm so tired people being too timid to call it what it is.

I honestly can't tell if people are being disingenuous when they say they're shocked that reddit was any of that at all. I know the far right disavow it completely but of course those guys are bullshitters. They drive propaganda 24/7.

What's the excuse for those are in earnest about it. Were people really that siloed such that they completely missed pretty much the entirety of what reddit is?

[–] SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm not too timid, I just don't know enough about the other places on the internet or the behind the scenes on Reddit to say much conclusively

Why should I defend reddit? It was a shithole that only got worse as time went on

At some point I intentionally stopped going and interacting with the darker sides of reddit to protect my own sanity, though. So yes, I was effectively siloed from it. But I'm not shocked, far from it

[–] OctopusNemeses@lemmy.world 2 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

It's not behind the scenes when the most popular subreddits were such things as "c*ntown". It didn't get better or worse. It's always been a nazi shithole. Those weren't the dark cornerse of the site it was the top results on Google back when it was a thing to show it. Those subreddit could regularly be seen on r/all.

This meta is what I'm talking about. People talking like none of that existed or it was too obscure for anyone to have known.