Reddit Terminal Viewer development is shutting down
&gt; More concerning, I no longer wish to support reddit as a platform. Widespread astroturfing, manufactured controversy, politics, bullying, incessant nitpicking and arguing.<p>Ever since starting a project to collect and analyse the reddit firehose, I&#x27;ve had a series of eye opening experiences about just how <i>manufactured</i> the popular reddit content is. Every day, comments and posts with hundreds to thousands of upvotes get deleted by moderators because they don&#x27;t fit the desired narrative. A small ring of moderators are in control of most default subs. A small ring of accounts make up for more than 50% of regular front-page content.<p>If you ever want to take a glimpse at the amount of manipulation going on, point something like snew.notabug.io at a popular politics or askreddit thread.<p>Reddit is a platform for pushing manufactured consent&#x2F;controversy and guerilla advertising. It is not a platform for open speech. The reddit content that most users see often does not represent the views of the userbase.<p>Here&#x27;s a random post I picked from an old analysis notebook where most of top 10% of comments were deleted, and then the post itself was deleted when new comments started mentioning the censorship. Should give some idea about the magnitude and scope of what&#x27;s going on <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;2C5Kn2R" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;2C5Kn2R</a>