It was predecessed by digg, for me anyway, but reddit was far superior and loaded with interesting people. Real wild west. The top post of the day had 2k votes at the time i arrived. People would cry and slobber all over each other's words and say i love you. It was a manic moment.
Then they put out a long explanation of why they had to take down jailbait. That made sense. But then they took down fat people hate with zero explanation. That was the transition into the new times. From long explanation to zero explanation.
By then some of us had discovered the niggers subreddit because we were being hit with the first wave of black lives matter which started with Trayvon and then exploded with Michael Brown.
Any good historian has to explain how much we talked about cops shooting dogs back then. It was a big deal. Since dogs have no race it was much easier way to approach police brutality. What race warriors were doing with the police brutality argument was going to destroy Society. The race war started with them. All we ever did was say you're wrong, and for being wrong, im going to slur you.
Because it was worse than being wrong. It was lying. It was sticking with lies. Once you figured that out you really could not get off of the niggers subreddit. They were always providing you new perspectives on how badly whites were being lied to and fucked over. This led to the jew hate.
When they took niggers away, we replaced it with coontown. That was fun, but then they took that away.
It was on that day that I came to voat - cant recall what my username was back then. At some point I became stuck with saintdindu.
For me this is a trauma processing station.
Shortly after I joined voat they started the WWF business with Trump. The few things he said to cause all this were not that extreme, but it had people going to his rallies and beating up random innocent Americans. They started to defend themselves with shields and helmets and then one day one of them (who among us remembers his name??!!) struck back and it became the street battles of 2016. Again the war started with them.
This was all very innocent compared to what happened in 2020. And 2020 was a crib full of babies compared to this day. From my point of view on this day I can practically see the drones coming over the horizon to kill me. It is getting very close to the end.
For me this is a hole that we dug to crawl in while we wait for the bombs. I don't care who you people are. I love you. We've been through a lot
So when a top post got to the top it was seen by all 20 million or so people that looked at Reddit every morning.
And then suddenly a few posts got to the top like the one that said that health insurance companies took your money for months and months and months and then when you got really sick and it was going to cost them a ton of money they went back through your health history and found something to say that you didn't declare something and then they dropped you and that that was common practice it wasn't an unusual thing.
And that started a real fury about health insurance that affected the politics of the day dramatically. This was before Obamacare existed in frankly probably was one of the reasons that at that time most of the people supported universal health Care because stories kept coming out about how insurance companies cheated you.
Anyway it was not long after things like that started to dramatically affect the power structure that was in effect that Reddit was purchased by the big Jewish family that owned a bunch of other media and I forgotten their name now but you can look it up.
One of the first things they did was divide read it up into subreddits so that if you were quote right or left or Republican or Democrat you only saw the stuff that was in the subreddit that you chose to be a member of because very few people chose to follow subreddits that they didn't agree with. So suddenly 20 million people could not be educated about something they never knew about. Once again just like in television the people only saw the things in their group that the people wanted to see so no one ever became aware of the fact that something else was going on. Just like the old Fox News versus MSNBC ridiculousness that goes on still today.
And then after they broke it in the subreddit suddenly they brought in moderators. And people were moderators of these subreddits and then it just became harder and harder to get anything actually interested interesting posted. I got banned then several times. You had to make up several different accounts. You'd have one for one thing and one for another and then one that would touch on politics and that one would get banned and so you'd create another one
.
Now before read it even existed there was something called the Yahoo news groups and that was a spin-off of the old news groups feeds that ran on a different form of the internet where you would download everybody's messages from that particular News group onto your computer through your mail program your email program and you had fantastic discussions going on about everything.
And then Yahoo came in and they put a front end on that and so did Google also did that Google also started indexing all the old news groups and Yahoo news did
But Yahoo news had the front end that was a easy web server front end and they were political discussions on there that were fantastic and technological discussions that were fantastic. This was back in the early internet when only smart people had computers and boy did it make a difference in the level of the discussions that you had.
But in any case I remember one particular discussion that came up and it was around the time George Bush was running against John Kerry for president I believe and a guy who was in charge of Sinclair broadcasting bought a whole bunch of TV stations or radio stations. Local ones. and he decided to do something I forget what to promote George w Bush's presidential campaign.
And people organized a boycott to dump Sinclair broadcastings stock which really tanked it. I mean it made a big difference and cost a lot of people a lot of money.
So this was even before Reddit and it just showed the power of these news groups
Unsurprisingly years later even though Google had an indexed all these news groups and you could go back and search through them historically and instantly find any old discussions in an amazing amount of information then all of a sudden Google just decided to destroy their index and so you couldn't access any of that stuff anymore.
And not too long after that Yahoo news groups also destroyed their news groups even though they were very popular and it probably cost them absolutely nothing to maintain that on their servers they decided to destroy all that information
And it was about this time that digg came along and then reddit.
And of course one of the founders of Reddit was that kid who was always trying to do good and he was the one that went to MIT and it was legal at MIT to do unlimited downloads of all the medical research papers if you were a student there so he set up a server in one of the computer rooms there to literally download all medical journals and he was going to do a study of the health effects and all kinds of conflict of interest and stuff in these medical journals and the FBI was called in they found the server they arrested him they were going to charge him with years and years of prison time and so he killed himself supposedly.
And this was all in spite of the fact that it was legal if you were at MIT to download to have unrestricted access to all those online medical journals.
So he was one of the original founders of Reddit and apparently he was also against the sale of Reddit to the large Jewish Media company that it eventually got sold to.
And the guy who owned dig who was a media darling and an internet star it for a while also knew Mark Zuckerberg when Mark Zuckerberg was just starting facebook. And people were talking about Mark Zuckerberg and what a scumbag he was and this that the other and the guy who had started dig said that Zuckerberg was doing something very interesting with Facebook and no one knew what he was talking about.
Well of course what it came out to be was Zuckerberg was getting everybody to put a link to Facebook onto all their own websites which automatically tracked everybody when they went to all these other websites and then of course Zuckerberg also got everybody to load all their own friends names into his website so he did with the KGB used to take thousands of KGB agents to do which was yet the networks that everybody had of all their friends and what all their friends were doing and what their interests were and what they were saying to each other and he did that all by rewarding people with the opportunity to post pictures of themselves in their own life bragging about what they did because everybody kind of wanted to be a star and Facebook was the first website that allowed you to create your own celebrity page. And people were so interested in doing that and promoting themselves to all their friends that they willingly gave up all their friends names and they put a little anchor tag for Facebook on all their own websites which allowed with Facebook to track everything about their life like the KGB used to do. Even to a greater extent than Google could do. Google previously would index everybody by what they searched for but Zuckerberg with Facebook came out and figured out a way to get everybody to report who their own friends were who their networks were and what they were saying to their closest friends and family and even Google didn't do that.
Crackinjokes 4 points 14 hours ago
Do you remember when Reddit had no subreddits?
So when a top post got to the top it was seen by all 20 million or so people that looked at Reddit every morning.
And then suddenly a few posts got to the top like the one that said that health insurance companies took your money for months and months and months and then when you got really sick and it was going to cost them a ton of money they went back through your health history and found something to say that you didn't declare something and then they dropped you and that that was common practice it wasn't an unusual thing.
And that started a real fury about health insurance that affected the politics of the day dramatically. This was before Obamacare existed in frankly probably was one of the reasons that at that time most of the people supported universal health Care because stories kept coming out about how insurance companies cheated you.
Anyway it was not long after things like that started to dramatically affect the power structure that was in effect that Reddit was purchased by the big Jewish family that owned a bunch of other media and I forgotten their name now but you can look it up.
One of the first things they did was divide read it up into subreddits so that if you were quote right or left or Republican or Democrat you only saw the stuff that was in the subreddit that you chose to be a member of because very few people chose to follow subreddits that they didn't agree with. So suddenly 20 million people could not be educated about something they never knew about. Once again just like in television the people only saw the things in their group that the people wanted to see so no one ever became aware of the fact that something else was going on. Just like the old Fox News versus MSNBC ridiculousness that goes on still today.
And then after they broke it in the subreddit suddenly they brought in moderators. And people were moderators of these subreddits and then it just became harder and harder to get anything actually interested interesting posted. I got banned then several times. You had to make up several different accounts. You'd have one for one thing and one for another and then one that would touch on politics and that one would get banned and so you'd create another one
.
Now before read it even existed there was something called the Yahoo news groups and that was a spin-off of the old news groups feeds that ran on a different form of the internet where you would download everybody's messages from that particular News group onto your computer through your mail program your email program and you had fantastic discussions going on about everything.
And then Yahoo came in and they put a front end on that and so did Google also did that Google also started indexing all the old news groups and Yahoo news did
But Yahoo news had the front end that was a easy web server front end and they were political discussions on there that were fantastic and technological discussions that were fantastic. This was back in the early internet when only smart people had computers and boy did it make a difference in the level of the discussions that you had.
But in any case I remember one particular discussion that came up and it was around the time George Bush was running against John Kerry for president I believe and a guy who was in charge of Sinclair broadcasting bought a whole bunch of TV stations or radio stations. Local ones. and he decided to do something I forget what to promote George w Bush's presidential campaign.
And people organized a boycott to dump Sinclair broadcastings stock which really tanked it. I mean it made a big difference and cost a lot of people a lot of money.
So this was even before Reddit and it just showed the power of these news groups
Unsurprisingly years later even though Google had an indexed all these news groups and you could go back and search through them historically and instantly find any old discussions in an amazing amount of information then all of a sudden Google just decided to destroy their index and so you couldn't access any of that stuff anymore.
And not too long after that Yahoo news groups also destroyed their news groups even though they were very popular and it probably cost them absolutely nothing to maintain that on their servers they decided to destroy all that information
And it was about this time that digg came along and then reddit.
And of course one of the founders of Reddit was that kid who was always trying to do good and he was the one that went to MIT and it was legal at MIT to do unlimited downloads of all the medical research papers if you were a student there so he set up a server in one of the computer rooms there to literally download all medical journals and he was going to do a study of the health effects and all kinds of conflict of interest and stuff in these medical journals and the FBI was called in they found the server they arrested him they were going to charge him with years and years of prison time and so he killed himself supposedly.
And this was all in spite of the fact that it was legal if you were at MIT to download to have unrestricted access to all those online medical journals.
So he was one of the original founders of Reddit and apparently he was also against the sale of Reddit to the large Jewish Media company that it eventually got sold to.
And the guy who owned dig who was a media darling and an internet star it for a while also knew Mark Zuckerberg when Mark Zuckerberg was just starting facebook. And people were talking about Mark Zuckerberg and what a scumbag he was and this that the other and the guy who had started dig said that Zuckerberg was doing something very interesting with Facebook and no one knew what he was talking about.
Well of course what it came out to be was Zuckerberg was getting everybody to put a link to Facebook onto all their own websites which automatically tracked everybody when they went to all these other websites and then of course Zuckerberg also got everybody to load all their own friends names into his website so he did with the KGB used to take thousands of KGB agents to do which was yet the networks that everybody had of all their friends and what all their friends were doing and what their interests were and what they were saying to each other and he did that all by rewarding people with the opportunity to post pictures of themselves in their own life bragging about what they did because everybody kind of wanted to be a star and Facebook was the first website that allowed you to create your own celebrity page. And people were so interested in doing that and promoting themselves to all their friends that they willingly gave up all their friends names and they put a little anchor tag for Facebook on all their own websites which allowed with Facebook to track everything about their life like the KGB used to do. Even to a greater extent than Google could do. Google previously would index everybody by what they searched for but Zuckerberg with Facebook came out and figured out a way to get everybody to report who their own friends were who their networks were and what they were saying to their closest friends and family and even Google didn't do that.