/r/Conservative is going to save Reddit

nobody doubted that the worst of reddit would take over after we left

What if, and hear me out on this, you go and start posting a bunch of ai images of trump sucking Putin off. Just a thought.

Hey, you don't see me complaining they stay there and don't migrate to Lemmy. I'm pretty fine with that.

feel free to shit post starting tomorrow

It's funny because they're implying that the whole sub isn't just shitposts to begin with.

For a brief period of time I was on a place on Reddit where new users could get help finding their way around the site.

Someone shows up there and says, "I'm not sure why I'm even on this libt++d communist site, nobody here will respect the way any good conservative American thinks."

I'm thinking, OK, snowflake, don't melt so hard from being a victim, but I responded with, "You might try /r/Conservative, and I can ask their moderators if they have any other suggestions."

I did so: I sent the moderators of /r/Conservative a message explaining what I was looking for and asking for any advice they might have for this new user. The response I got back was, "LOL, F+++ off."

Lovely, lovely people there.

(100% that good conservative American was on the libt++d communist site for the free porn.)

Someone throw a padlock on that group to keep them in Reddit.

I don't understand the mentality behind this. Is it just a case of "They're doing a thing so we'll do the opposite"? What exactly is the goal here?

Nothing says conservative like being happy about big and sudden changes.

so basically, "we mods are boycotting but we can't act like we actually agree with the other protests."

typical conservative contrarian bullshit as always.

Oh my, if they were really brave they would un-ban all the supposed liberals that ever slightly ruffled their feathers.

They won't leave a single boot unlicked

So a corporate douche CEO wants to screw over their own userbase in the name of money alone and they are 100% onboard with opposing the boycott/protest...

...but are perfectly fine harassing and threatening stock workers at Target over Pride Month displays, outright absurd-levels of "boycotting" because of a limited-edition can with Bud Light, and the whole Chick-Fil-A DEI hire?

This is exactly what happened to DIGG* and what's currently happening to twitter.

Conservatives get beaten down by the vast majority of users and get a chip on their shoulder. Then as the site starts to die and the users move elsewhere conservatives jump on the sinking ship and declare their the new captain. They start drilling holes in the sinking ship cause theres nkthing else to do, and eventually realize the echo chamber sucks and then move on to the other social networks that everyone else went to, and the process repeats.

I hope with federation that the cycle doesn't repeat but we'll see.

• DIGG made their big DIGG 4.0 change to overhaul the algorithm because it was being gamed and brigaded by members of conservative forums at the time. It just so happened they did it with a user interface overhaul. For a while, after most everyone moved to reddit, the top posts were mostly conservative stuff.

Well, you don't need third party apps with good moderation tools if you just don't moderate anything. /s

/r/conservative tomorrow be like

I wonder, will it be actual shitposting or will it just be them dropping the mask and calling that shitposting

Boots ain't gonna lick themselves...

Always needing to be the contrarian, no matter the subject or how it may hurt them as well.

Is there a reason why they're doing this? Blackout's not even political. They just want to be contrarian to everything.

One would think that a platform killing third party apps and forcing consolidation of users into their app would set some alarms off in the minds of the "we freedom oorah come and take it" party. Unfortunately they don't even pretend to match the branding on the tin.

Oh nice, good to see r/conservative doing their absolute best to get people to avoid Reddit.

Conservative ego is so easy to make a plaything of. What a bunch of blind lemmings.

So… a bunch of hateful, ignorant jerks are going to be even more obnoxious than usual? And they think that’s a good thing?

If the blackouts aren’t enough to drive people away, this will. Congratulations, reddit! You’re getting the user base you deserve!

Conservatives... more like contrarians.

so i did cave in and open https://libreddit.kavin.rocks/conservative/new and i promise you all, if this was an ironic subreddit, i would've pinned this to my browser.

it's just too goofy right now and they're all so proud, i cant help but love it.

i hope they continue to "conserve" reddit LOL. @bumblefumble said it best:

"Nothing says conservative like being happy about big and sudden changes."

EDIT: replaced link with libreddit alternative

Typical conservatives. Everyone else is fighting for the greater good and they've opted to selfish children.

Reddit is the new Parler

Wow, absolutely nobody in here gets what they’re doing and just wants to shit on “conservatives”. What they’re doing is what the other mods should also be doing - mod strike! Take down the barriers and let Reddit get overrun with bots, spam, and low-effort posts. If every sub did that instead of the weak-ass “dark for two days guise!” Reddit management would fold immediately.

With this two-days-dark plan, management thinks (correctly?) that they can just wait it out and they win. And they’re probably right. No competent strike ever gives a deadline and expects it to work, that’s absurd. The smarter subs have at least said “at least two days, then we’ll reassess” - that’s the better approach, keep it open-ended.

But the best approach is what /r/conservative seems to be doing, which is just put down their tools and walk the fuck away. Reddit management would have literally no response to that approach if it was the approach taken site-wide.

But whatever, keep shitting on the nazis.

I looked on RiF, and that post seems to be gone and the subreddit seems to be going strong with its usual braindead takes.

The enshittification of reddit.

Everything about that post screams brainrot. It's so incredibly well woven that it might as well be unintentional art.

Since when were they against shitposts?

Wow, and I thought all the subs leaving + shutting down was bad enough. Now, advertisers are going to see this remaining subreddit flooded with racist and bigoted memes no doubt.

An appropriate legacy for the subreddit. Very "on brand." 🤣

Man I blocked all right wing subreddits the day I signed up, been so nice not having to ever see or think about them.

$10 says the "special surprise" is a shout out/recruitment post from something like "truth social" (or wherever they hangout nowadays) to go takeover what's left of Reddit.

time to see this advanced conservative humor I keep hearing about.

"Instead of the blackout, we're going to make posting easier! We're definitely helping!"

Sweet Jesus, that's some brain-dead logic.

The special surprise is they got one of Trump's turds and they're all gonna split it

Oh god, I shouldn't have looked. Their idea of free speech is posting obvious propaganda and shitting on minorities. Classic

Does this mean everyone who's been banned from r/Conservative can post freely today?

Internet post-ironic conservatism is the gift that keeps giving. God I love being an American.

No surprises 🥰

A lil worried about their "special surprise." What could they even do that would be surprising given the abhorrent stuff that already comes out from that sub?

Man, I was just posting how I feel like we're losing all of our core media social platforms... It's hard for me to not feel like there's some level of orchestration going on

The propaganda machine has no days off!

I like what /u/dankmemes is doing: only memes about the API thing.

I don't think spez really likes conservatives, he edited a trump supporter post to make them look bad so I'm not sure why right-wingers are licking the boots of a left leaning person. They're owning the libs so hard, they're licking the boots of one? (What is the political view of spez, anyways?)

As always, yucky

In a strange way reading /r/conservative since the mods took a holiday has been kind of fun. I've always checked that subreddit, even though I hated reading it most of the time, I always thought it important to see what the other side has to say. Some of their memes today have been funny, even for a lefty and in some way it's like a beautiful and surprising reddit farewell gift from the place I least suspected.

Yeah, that will teach them. People posting more memes will totally change Reddit's politics.

But it's at least in character. It's about the same stance the conservatives take to any important issue.

They’re so desperate for attention.

lmao, excellent

Jokes on them. Reddit is down.

Of course

Top minds gonna top.

acting in contrary just for the sake of it -yeah sounds like american conservatives alright

Clown subreddit.

Let's all post there on our remaining accounts and get banned.

They can have it all to themselves. I'm happy here now 😉

• „A special surprise is being constructed „

Would kinda be funny if the mods that run this sub are acutely lefties and the surprise would be a big fucking „GOT YOU“

Just sayin…

I like how they felt like they needed to specify twice that Reddit rules still apply. They sure know their audience.

Let me know if there's a more appropriate community for this.

What absolutely gooberish behavior lolll. Imagine riding this hard for some huge company who all but said they'd pee on their own users for half a penny.

So they're going the way or /r/worldpolitics?

People are shitting on this but have no problem with r/interestingasfuck and r/perfectlycutscreams doing the exact same thing

Lol

"A special surprise is being constructed" made me laugh.