Reddit was a nice community. Once. Before government made sure Aaron Swartz never breathed again. First the censorship and tyranny came slowly with picking off easy targets like r/jailbait. Then they went after the r/cringeanarchy, r/incels, r/wojak, obviously that wasn't enough. They had to go after r/the_donald and r/kotakuinaction. r/darkhumorandmemes, r/darkjokecentral? No humor or memes to you. Unless you agree with their agenda. r/rightwinglgbt? Oh, so sorry, you can't be right wing when you're muh minority. They shifted their focus and began going after even left-wing and feminist subreddits like r/chapotraphouse r/gendercritical and r/trufemcels. I think I quit when they went after r/bigchungus. Thought they were done with it after they axed r/superstraight and r/metacanada?
Nope, they went after r/workreform.
These aren't any sort of extremists, just moderate social democrats who want living wages and acceptable working conditions. They support Bernie Sanders ffs. But once the subreddit grew big, they had to go down. Ministry of Love and Truth weren't having it. And so, they've pressured top mod to give up control and that mod, u/RIOP3L didn't stay silent. Props to him, madlad.
Imagine still using reddit in this day and age. Or twitter. Or literally any major platform. We do, not because we agree with their tyranny, but because we have no choice. They have monopolized the market. It's where activity actually happens. And that's honestly terrifying. This is the reason we need to grow platforms like Hive, Steemit, Minds and others. Not only does a larger share of revenue go to us and not to Big Tech who get fat from our thoughts, hopes and dreams, but it also enables us to have at least a bit more free speech in our lives. Things have to change.
To read more about what happened, the top admin created even whole website here: https://archive.ph/BZVG1.
TL;DR: If you can, please spread awareness of this kind of abuse of authority by Reddit, their admins and cult of powertripping mods they forcefully appoint. Awareness helps much more than a fraction of HIVE. If you can, take some time to post some screenshots or a meme of the WORKREFORM SCANDAL on your page or other sites, we need to bring a spotlight to this. If you know any journalists, all the better, reach out to them, get this story published, we're all in this together. Without free speech there is just silence in a lifetime of agony. A world of depression and darkness. Let us not succumb to it.