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Reddit Migration

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### About Community Tracking and helping #redditmigration to Kbin and the Fediverse. Say hello to the decentralized and open future. To see latest reeddit blackout info, see here: https://reddark.untone.uk/

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The usual admin threat to reopen here:

https://imgur.com/a/qDMyZlX

I've notified the sub and left a recommendation to join kbin or lemmy. Curious to see if they also ban me from reddit over this, not that I planned on posting there again.

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[–] Kichae@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We trust them to maintain a non-evil platform

Reddit took money from Peter Thiel. That ship sailed a long, long time ago.

[–] SirEDCaLot@lemmy.fmhy.ml 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Perhaps. They also took money from the Chinese. Of course it's totally coincidental how anti-China articles sometimes seem to disappear for no apparent reason...

[–] Kichae@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Just to be pedantic about it, because someone'll bring it up eventually: They took money from Tencent -- and a lot of it -- which, indeed, had close ties to the Chinese government (and now it sounds like the government owns a significant share of the company, but it didn't at the time of investment). Tencent absolutely looks out for things that could negatively affect its relationship with the government of China.

I don't mean to overlook the role Tencent has in enabling an authoritarian regime and papering over their authoritarian acts.

But they took white supremacist and actual fascist Peter Thiel's money like 5 years before they took Tencent's.