this post was submitted on 13 Oct 2024
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Half the comments on that site are from new accounts. Day old accounts that seem like admin alts. What happened to that place?

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 month ago

the person who runs it has always had a proclivity for making sock puppet accounts to fake engagement

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago

It was always like that.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago

There was one post every 2-3 days a couple years ago.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Wasn't raddle one of the for chuds by chuds reddit clones?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

raddle is an old reddit clone which was always inhabited mostly by alts of extremely online anarchist ziq

and that's not even speculation or anything, it was a whole thing ages ago where ziq alienated most of their actual users when it was revealed that most of the site's activity was their alts. they apologized, then they later un-apologized and bragged about it

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

my main memory of that place was someone going on a rant about socialism being a "dusty 20th century ideology" and really everybody should be going in on something called third world illegalism

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

anarchist

Hell nah we don't claim that guy

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Yikes. So then this is just how it is on the site? Is the security concerns I heard about also true?