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[former-reddit-tooafraidtoask]

Everyone's friends over at reddit are at it again!

In a new post from a member of reddit staff reddit corporate has decided that, no, moderators are not allowed to do anything to prevent or disrupt activity in the subreddits they moderate, even if the community votes for it.

In the same post they make the absurd claim that protest is still allowed on reddit. Just not... you know, disruptive protest. So dear union members, no, you're no longer allowed to strike, but you are still allowed to say you're mad, so long as you don't say it too loud of course.

[globelisted]

How silver market has morphed into meme trading

A vendor shows various models and weights of silver bullion at a gold jewellery manufacturer in “El Sagha”, as gold prices recorded an increase after a devaluation of the local currency, at the gold market area in Cairo, Egypt January 14, 2024. Amr Abdallah Dalsh | Reuters Silver’s rapid surge and equally dramatic reversal in recent weeks has led market watchers to ask a fundamental question:…

How silver market has morphed into meme trading

[caitcadv]

They Died From Covid. Then the Online Attacks Started.

The social media profiles of anti-vaccine victims of the pandemic have made them and their families targets of trolling, even after their deaths.

And you were asking how trolling can be harmful? #covid #trolling #cyberbullying #socialmedia

[jroemeth]

Reddit’s 5-Second Ad Was an Unlikely Super Bowl Winner

Other companies spent millions on ambitious commercials made for advertising’s biggest day. Reddit’s blip of an ad, made in under a week, connected.

[magnetoisright]

Opinion | Pumps and Dumps and Chumps

Please, stop falling for fake populism.

More on the GameStop nonsense. I’ve spent the last week or so watching acquaintances with financial problems get suckered in and insist on buying GameStop in order to hold it. It’s a shame, and I tried to argue publicly that this wasn’t a good thing that was happening, but of course, no one listens when they’re in a bubble-mania or the soon-to-be victims of a pump-and-dump.

[todaysamlearned]

‘Dumb Money’ Is on GameStop, and It’s Beating Wall Street at Its Own Game

GameStop shares have soared 1,700 percent as millions of small investors, egged on by social media, employ a classic Wall Street tactic to put the squeeze — on Wall Street.

Today I learned more about investment.

[mynameisgion]

Why the Far Right Wants to Be the New ‘Alternative’ Culture

The hard-right fringe is billing itself as today’s “punk rock” counterculture — even as it gleefully seizes power and influence over the mainstream.

“This ‘‘alternative’’ is not limited by consistent adherence to its own principles. This self-described underdog sees nothing problematic in its affinity for power. In fact, it believes, rightly, that to the right audience, contradiction is exciting. Nothing could be better for an insurgent political force than to be seen as a scrappy outsider. And nothing could be better for the aspiring mainstream — this time not corporate, or cultural, but political — than to adopt the permanent pose of the alternative.”

[peefang]

Opinion | The Reddit Connection That Got Me Into College

After dropping out of rabbinical seminary, I was directionless. I spent a lot of time on the internet.