Skye [she/her, they/them]

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Cake day: April 16th, 2025

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  • I realize this comment is too late for a lot of people to still see, but I have to add something about reddit, unless we fall into the trap of erasing some of its terrible history because they have been trying to memoryhole it as hard as possible.

    CW: Pedophiles, sexual violence

    It wasn’t a website with a particular politics beyond the mainstream (biased towards white computer touchers obviously).

    I don’t think this is entirely true. In the early stages of reddit it was already more aligned with the kind of libertarian freeze-peach brainworms to the point that I remember normie liberals and people on older sites (including fucking 4chan) were oftentimes repulsed by it.

    Initially the main thing reddit was doing to set itself apart from other sites was to not “censor” communities like r/jailbait and various reddits dedicated to taking upskirt creepshots. The former was a community dedicated to sexualising actual, real-life, children and to post images and videos of them for people to masturbate to.

    Reddit did eventually cave and remove the very fucking worst shit on it and then pivoted hard to being the inoffensive. investor-friendly site for white keyboard touchers as you said, but I don’t think the truly awful shit they started out with should be forgotten either.