Reddit is on a steady, downward slide as they continue to reverse more and more of the things that made the website previously great (or, at least, good.)
Censorship was once the reason people went TO Reddit. It was an open marketplace of ideas that generally adhered to no particular set of morals or national laws beyond those of common internet sense. This persisted for several years, as the users who had migrated (mostly from Digg) were attempt to escape heavy-handed moderation and censorship.
Then, rather quickly, it wasn't.
Of course, not unlike all good things, this was destined to come to an end. And indeed, it did come to an end, quite some time ago. However, this has not stopped Reddit's clueless administration and executives from putting the pedal to the medal in destroying the online platform they have never had the slightest inkling how to monetize (a fatal flaw that will eventually destroy them.)
Their gradual plan over time seems to have been to engender a reputation for being a user-driven, mostly uncensored website and then to slowly back in to giving corporate (and other nefarious) interests almost complete control of content and speech rights on an individual-subreddit level. I don't think it has worked out the way they hoped it would.
Over the last 2 years Reddit has aggressively turned into a propaganda site aligned mostly with faux-gressive fake liberals and social justice warriors. The news and politics section push a skewed, totally partisan collection of lies and the entire website contorted greatly in an attempt to elect Hillary Clinton, perhaps the least qualified presidential candidate in history, given her status as a career serial-felon.
Reddit didn't stop there. They censor any marketplace Reddit that facilitates unregulated commerce, they run a large anti-alt-coin, pro-Bitcoin-shill propaganda operation out of r/bitcoin (see my above link, or just google Theymos, a most accomplished thief). They attack any viewpoint that doesn't tow the mainstream party line by shutting down and censoring pretty much any Reddit they deem to be guilty of wrong-think, then often replacing it with a puppet-subreddit that few casual observers will notice the difference in. This is a particularly common practice in alt-coin subreddits, which tend to be ruthlessly positive echo-chambers (and coincidentally moderated by the operators of said coin projects.)
Now after all that ranting...Reddit probably didn't remove the Bitcoin payment option for any sinister reason. u/i_gotta_say has the scoop over at Reddit:
Sorry, it's just not likely there's a more interesting explanation than this one. The volume of Reddit Gold bought with Bitcoin, given recent transaction fees, must be next to nothing. It's just not worth updating support for the new paradigm.
Reddit Inc., you are an abject failure, but perhaps this one is not on you.
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Sources: Google, Reddit, u/i_gotta_say
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This kind of stuff has always been happening and will keep happen becaue as a human being we resist the change.
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Reddit, Youtube, Facebook.
They all go to shit.
Good thing we have Steemit.
Maybe they got scared of the success of Steemit 😆
Thank God for steemit.
Websites like YT and RED get their morals and ethics compromised when they need to maintain an income stream - they take on the agenda of their pay masters.
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I've actually heard that reddit is considering starting their own cryptocurrency. Steemit is effectively a proof of concept for them, and karma is just damn near its own cryptocurrency (minus the chain, obviously)
If this is true, which it sounds extremely plausible, it only increases the importance of this community continuing the mission of spreading knowledge about the censorship. I am starting to work on a plan for a local blockchain information forum to help spread awareness for the technology and Steemit will certainly be an area of emphasis as reddit joins facebook, YT, and Microsoft in the great internet scrubbing.
This is probably a good thing in the long run, meaning that it would push social interaction away from centralized governance.
Now, we don't know if Steem will be the one to take the advantage of the repercussions, it could be another player, but what we do know is that all these platforms seems to have a cycle with almost a clearly defined peak where the "solutions" they provided shined the brightest. (reddit in 2013 IMO)
I semi-abandoned Reddit a while ago, but mostly because most subreddits I used to visit started to turn a little to toxic.
I was really a big fan of reddit because most of my google searches for niche things would end up on a reddit message board and once you in that rabbit hole you can really get lost in the sea of ideas the world had to offer
It’s reallt sad that the big tech companies are kneeling down to liberalist agendas and are thinking more about what’s trending in main stream media to attract click bait viewers and act as an echo chamber for these people to validate their ideas since they are just the most vocal on the internet and then ofcourse selling ad space on those visits to make extra bucks
Conservative ideas are clearly not popular with their target ad audience
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Is this all some kind of ploy by all of these governments and major media outlets to push the price out, control their citizens and force them to use their own shitty currencies and services, all the while buying in themselves at the lowest possible prices before somehow managing to drive the prices back up to all time highs, rinse wash repeat?
What a time to be alive! Blockchain truly is challenging all of our major global institutions from our monetary system to our most powerful social media companies. It's gonna be fascinating to look back on these days 5-10 years down the road!
Very good thought police.
This hand around our throats is getting tighter everyday.
Interested to hear why you think a platform like Steem will be any better in the long run? Users are able to pay for censorship here and not much can be done to prevent it.
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yet another site I am glad I never used, makes it easy to boycott.
It’s sad but it’s the way things seem to be going from everything 4chan will go the same we are seeing it on YouTube and Facebook Twitter it’s a joke and and not befor long the PC POLICE will get there selfs over here to 😮😮😮😬😬😬