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Reddit is a cesspit. I asked my 17 year old if people he knew used it and he laughed and said “no”. Hopefully it’ll go the way of Friends Reunited.

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My 15 and 17 year old don’t use it either. However my neices in their mid 20’s still love it. They used to live Tumblr too but moved on. I’m hoping it will burn out.

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Maybe its a personality and gender thing? Some social media is quick hit photo or comment, some is a longer, deeper read. I feel if reddit goes, it will be replaced. They just need to know they are communing with middle aged men sitting in their mothers' basements in their underpants.

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Correction. In their Mum's underpants.

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Plenty of cesspit stuff, but what about r/detrans? I'm not up to speed, but thought it was a key place for detransitioners to support and advise each other? A needed refuge?

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I thought Challenor and co had pretty much closed those sub Reddits down. I might be wrong.

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Its still up, the mods were able to block this guys attempted takeover

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I am sure in the end we will be AMAZED at just how thick with sexual predators and child groomers reddit is. It's no coincidece there are 19k detransitioners on there, most of them were probably groomed into transition on there to begin with.

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Thank goodness for that! I heard that it had been deleted along with the Gender Critical subs then, months later, I read something that made me wonder if it had reappeared. When I looked and found it, there was a kind but very cryptic message about one of the Admins leaving. Reading between the lines, it suggested to me that the former Admin had been caught up, perhaps unwittingly, in some sort of sabotage attempt.

I am really glad that it still going as there is little enough support already for detransitioners.

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thats great news, that he laughed, maybe it's as passe' as Facebook

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It's apparently going public sometime this year. Who knows how that will affect the demographic.

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@ripx4nutmeg does some sterling work on Twitter. A huge asset to the gc movement. Thanks nutmeg! It’s much appreciated. ❤️

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Seconded! Incredibly useful and reliable resource!

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This is a link to a Kiwi Farms thread on him. If you scroll down there's a video by a whistleblower talking about the behaviour of Bardfinn and other Reddit mods.

https://kiwifarms.net/threads/steven-joel-akins-penelope-penny-verity-oaken-u-bardfinn-penny-witchette-finning-widget-mutabilesemper.85310/

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there needs to be a site dedicated solely to the sickness that is reddit. that lists the predators as the dominoes fall so the whole world will know that that site is run by sexual predators almost exclusively. Twitter is literally just as bad, Jack Dorsey is way into support of prostitution/porn/sexwork/pedophiles on his site.

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Another complete waste of oxygen.

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It was once the closest thing remaining to the lovely "wild west"of Usenet, but has been captured. Grieves me how it's fallen.

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He's been doxxed, and if it's true, he lives with four other family members. Has a kid, and at least one ex-wife, probably dodging child support. Has bragged about posting child porn but describes it as "non-sexual" "Tanner Stage 1". A truly vile individual, emblematic of the sickness at the heart of Reddit's woman-hatred. It's just 24 hour online creeps like this that run the majority of the place.

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There are court documents on there showing that they have, in fact, dodged child support for years. Someone has posted that the amount and duration of their non payment of child support is rising to the level of a federal offense. I do not know if this means that they may end up in jail ... but if they do, one wonders if they will argue to be put in a women's prison. And when you think about the report of domestic abuse and the details therein, that's a terrifying thought.

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The most disturbing information in the article about that lawsuit, which is terrible enough in itself, is about the proportion of CONSUMERS of porn who are children

- 22% under the age of 10

- over 33% aged 10-14

OVER 50% OF PORN CONSUMERS ARE UNDER THE AGE OF 14!!😱

"The lawsuit claims the US received 18.4 million reports of child sex abuse in 2018, with the lion’s share to be found on the internet. Some 37% of child sexual abuse content online is hosted in North America, and a disturbing 22% of child porn consumers are themselves under the age of 10. Children aged from 10 to 14 constitute over a third of child porn consumers. On Reddit, the problem is exacerbated by the ease of skirting the platform’s age-check mechanism."

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It makes me want to weep. So many children with thoughts and images in their minds which we never had, ever. I'm 66, so it's even more weird for me.. That porn has been allowed to take over the internet, to be everywhere, breaks my heart and makes me want to scream with rage. These children will NEVER recover from the images they've seen, will never know what love is. Making Love was turned into Having Sex, a long time back, all emotion removed from it by those with no barriers, who do not understand emotions, or love, or spirituality...Now, it's all drained of magic and beauty......Somehow, humans MUST get The Magic back. I've no idea how, because so many appear to be going along with this madness and brutality....Shocking disconnection and disassociation from Love, from each other...and it's all happened because of the internet, and because so many have turned away. "All it takes for evil..." etc. etc.

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how? we kill the motherf*cking internet that's how. That's my focus, from here to the rest of my life. It's a cancer, a poison, destroying one child after another. massive child grooming, webcam spying, non-consensual porn such as rape porn, tripling of suicide of girls 10 to 14 shows something HORRIBLE is going wrong...together with the insane increase in girls transitioning (then detransitioning) it shows the internet is killing Girls, it's a girl genocide. Nothing we gain from the internet is worth the soul-death of a whole generation of children.

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It's like bloody groundhog day with that lot!

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He also claims to have some "database" of "nazi sympothesisers" and uses some software called mass tagger (which itself is of dubious legality under GDPR laws as it skims everyone on reddit and automatically flags them if they post on a wrongthink subreddit) . Basically if you post somewhere that he doesn't like, even if you have had NO interaction with this guy he will try and get you shut down.

Since I am active on /r/detrans I have been targeted him on a subreddit for posting cute animal pictures (seriously) .

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after the two suspensions I had on facebook recently and a blog on Medium about religion (!) being red-barred though I hadn't touched it in years I am convinced they are stalking me...somekind of database for terfs is in existence and they I think have the shinigami eyes thing on there. I don't bother with twitter anymore cause I don't want to swim in the predator toilet there either.

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That stinks!

Medium is owned by Twitter so there is no point using it for blogging unless you archive immediately.

WordpressDOTorg is owned by Alphabet, who own Google - so that is a dead loss if the snipers spot you.

Anything you want to keep, write or copy it offline. Archive like crazy and bookmark so you can find it again.

These are not normal times. We need to get used to the fact that, for the moment, we are seen as dissidents and are treated as dangerous subversives.

This has happened underhand and it is difficult to grasp. I struggle to keep reminding myself because it is like the world has gone mad - because it has.

We are dealing with people who trade in magical thinking - but they also have power and influence. It is like the NHS is run by homeopaths and when you go to A&E they diagnose using dowsing rods and palmistry, and triage using tea leaves and a crystal ball - but a week ago it was all normal.

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so what does it take to convince people that reddit is child rape central, haven for sexual predators, in fact should be called "Preddit" and those who use it "predditors". For the love of all that is HOLY GET. OFF. OF. REDDIT.

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Why are all such perverts not in prison? When did we switch from protection to hedonism, from loathing such people to setting them up as heroes? Why do so many now have no barriers, no shame, and are allowed to get away with horrendous behaviour, having no accountability forced on them? This is progress, is it? The internet, which has the power to do such good, also has the power to do such evil. WHY 'the evil' is allowed, I've no idea, other than the humans in charge must be evil too. I need new swear words...........

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because it (the internet) seemed like a good idea at the time). Now we know. We tried it, it didn't work, and now it's barred it's fangs and is coming after our kids. Now it's time to kill the monster we helped create.

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FartBinn

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Reddit is owned by Conde' Nast, but before they bought it, I believe it was a reaction site to organise what 4chan appeared unable to organise, sensible ideas. It's most famous director and co-creator was Aaron Schwartz who committed suicide because of the pressures the US government put him under. These days it has merely become a hotbed of conformity and a mental straight-jacket like The Guardian, The Daily Mail, and the Huffington Post. No dissent is allowed, the filter bots are always right and finding ways around the filter bots gets you banned. It's the reason I keep saying, distributed and decentralised social media is best. decentralised and distributed search engines are the best. Look into peer-peer distributed and decentralised social media. It's not like the old ways of google and all the media mogul sites - Peer-peer is an old technology that has become more secure than it used to be. Just research at your own pace. Either use others servers or create your own under your management. It's easy, its free, it's free speech if you want it to be and censored if you want it to be. Just ignore twitter, facebook, reddit and all the rest. start with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diaspora_%28social_network%29

check out this page. https://bitshills.com/best-decentralized-social-media-networks/

The future is not a rebellion against common sense but a rebellion of common sense over corporate censorship

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Oops I meant to include that you can even run your own genuine web search engine that takes 10 minutes to setup and get going but the more time you take learning how to refine the setup the better. YaCy see yacy https://yacy.net/

No adverts, no slewing of results to suit corporate bribery and bias just the internet search results as you want them

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Penny Oaken looks massively like Tony Blair on a bad hair day

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It was once the closest thing remaining to the lovely "wild west"of Usenet, but has been captured. Grieves me how it's fallen.

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