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Would something decentralized help?

I don't think people want that. The_Donald involved a lot of spreading their message / fake news sites / spamming across other subs and etc.

Do people want to be on a platform where other folks on the same platform are targeting their community with dishonest and often bigoted content?

I'm also not sure how much The_Donald was as a community. The sheer volume of users at its height seemed to involve a huge amount of brand new accounts you never saw again / never posted again (except when they show up as a group again), and etc. Or those without brand new accounts show up and post strange dishonest lead in type posts that sort of try to lead folks down a bigoted path ... that you can blatantly see in their post history.

So you'd be in your other community and one day they all show up and down votes and the vitriol begins... it was no mystery that this happened, it was spoken of openly in The_Donald for a time.

Who wants to deal with that?

parent duxup 6 years ago

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