• antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 year ago

    served the public good

    Yeah, nah. For a start, if one website could be singled out for bringing Trump into power, it wasn’t any of those icky extremist places such as 4chan, 8chan, r/trump - it was Twitter where he posted his garbage for literal years with no interruption and thus gained a massive following. The site practically lived off his controversial diarrhea.

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      1 year ago

      You could say the same about reddit in a large part. 4chan was a free home, Twitter was a megaphone, but reddit really encouraged the infestation to gestate.

      Also it wasn’t r/trump, but r/the_Donald, as well as all the spin off astroturfed subs.