I think you're giving the Feds entirely too much credit. Peter Thiel, some Koch cut-out, or an Amazon-employed anti-union group sound at least as likely.
It doesn't matter who it is. Op is an op regardless of who is doing it. I agree that it could be neoliberals, could be hedgies, could be all kinds of shits. Whoever they are though they clearly have a deep understanding of reddit as their growth and algorithm manipulation is above that of literally anyone I know in the left side of reddit. Tronaldo is the most effective growth-monster in the reddit left when it comes to growing subs and these people dwarf his work, very sus. I also know it's not him.
Not in so far as we're all getting fucked just as hard.
But I do think there's a fundamental difference between a public sector bureaucrat operating out of some ideological or nationalist agenda, and some corporate flak doing OpSec purely for the paycheck.
Whoever they are though they clearly have a deep understanding of reddit as their growth and algorithm manipulation is above that of literally anyone I know in the left side of reddit.
Reddit has always been an illusion of participation. The original conceit of the website was to spoof user interaction in order to sucker in real people. That system has been exploited repeatedly, by both political and corporate cronies, going back to the Ron Paul days.
The fact that spaces like The_Donald and AntiWork and GenZDong keep cropping up suggests that these people don't know what they've created or even how to control it. They only know the most ham-fisted way to shape public opinion and cannot tolerate even a modicum of coordinated push back.
Reddit owners can profit off promising new kinds of manufactured consent and social control. But, at the end of the day, they're just selling the same flimsy macros and bots they've always used. They're going the same way as all the other social media firms. Just a hill of lies used to siphon off advertising budgets.
I think you're giving the Feds entirely too much credit. Peter Thiel, some Koch cut-out, or an Amazon-employed anti-union group sound at least as likely.
It doesn't matter who it is. Op is an op regardless of who is doing it. I agree that it could be neoliberals, could be hedgies, could be all kinds of shits. Whoever they are though they clearly have a deep understanding of reddit as their growth and algorithm manipulation is above that of literally anyone I know in the left side of reddit. Tronaldo is the most effective growth-monster in the reddit left when it comes to growing subs and these people dwarf his work, very sus. I also know it's not him.
Not in so far as we're all getting fucked just as hard.
But I do think there's a fundamental difference between a public sector bureaucrat operating out of some ideological or nationalist agenda, and some corporate flak doing OpSec purely for the paycheck.
Reddit has always been an illusion of participation. The original conceit of the website was to spoof user interaction in order to sucker in real people. That system has been exploited repeatedly, by both political and corporate cronies, going back to the Ron Paul days.
The fact that spaces like The_Donald and AntiWork and GenZDong keep cropping up suggests that these people don't know what they've created or even how to control it. They only know the most ham-fisted way to shape public opinion and cannot tolerate even a modicum of coordinated push back.
Reddit owners can profit off promising new kinds of manufactured consent and social control. But, at the end of the day, they're just selling the same flimsy macros and bots they've always used. They're going the same way as all the other social media firms. Just a hill of lies used to siphon off advertising budgets.