Those of you who are on reddit should share / link snapzu and invite people to come over here. If there ever was a good time to spread the word, it's now. Obviously not any of the freaks either, just regular people in the regular subreddits.

I was just watching the fireworks in their announcement's comments page. A lot of people are PISSED.

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Mmm, but they still fail to ban brigades ranging from r/shitredditsays, r/shitstatistssays, r/shitlibertarianssays, which house some of the most toxic and straight up mentally dysfunctional idiots on the site, let alone they break site rules and ruin discussion all across the board.

Here's my opinion as a fat guy. I am agreeing almost completely with Boogie in this video.. Sure, it was a shitty sub. It was filled with idiots with shitty opinions. However, I think reddit is hypocritical. They advertise themselves as the keepers of free speech but then break that narrative when it isn't financially beneficial for them. And they decide to ban this before /r/coontown, /r/picsofdeadkids, and other much worse subs. I mean it took them goddamn forever to ban /r/niggers. I don't disrespect their decision to make the site less bullying-friendly. I disrespect that they pretend that it actually is a safe space when they ONLY actually take action when it makes them look bad as a business. That is not a safe space. That is hypocrisy. We'll see. I don't think this is the death of reddit. I'm just disappointed with how they handled the situation. Let's see if they keep the promise and actually make a real attempt at making the site a safe space. I really doubt it.

As much shit that's going on, I still do and will continue to use reddit.

Drama ain't gonna stop me.

Why we are here...

I bet this will all blow over and return to normal, as always. I'm very surprised they didn't take out all the worse forums like coontown and picsofdeadkids though.

Reddit seems to be pretty much undo-able at the moment with the FPH people posting stuff in pretty much any sub they can get away with. seems like there is no escaping it.

Well, here I am then.

Ellen Pao is such a moron that I'll bet she shops for shoes with Velcro fasteners.

Woah this post is up to 80 score???

Many hours later and refugees are still hemorrhaging into the alternatives! I can't even get into Voat, and I'm experiencing a crawl in Hubski. Snapzu seems strangely unfazed though, so... good job?

I'm kinda worried for Voat though. Not merely because the servers there are melting down, but because now that's the site that has the job of handling the FPH refugees. Not even counting the other refugee groups that have shifted there, e.g. those from /r/conspiracy who were obsessing over the falsely suspicious daycare centre and actually prompted the operators to call the police.

Another note, reddit was way too hasty and blunt. This kind of harassment should have been tackled way earlier, giving time to implement longer but softer corrective approaches to remedying the toxic behaviour of the offending users. I think reddit might have neglected the issue right until it approached - possibly even breached - the melting point, before quickly trying to sort it out.

A third note... is Pao really the sole dictator over the site's implemented decisions? She's become quite the favourite scapegoat for freedom-of-speech supporters to attack.

Explains all the new followers I'm getting here.

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I just found this website (Loving It!) after browsing for reddit alternatives today. Now, I am not one to call out conspiracies or wear tin-foil hats but this blatant censorship I can not tolerate. Even if the content in those subreddits was offensive, it was legal and they were breaking no laws. The internet is a place for discussion and things cannot be removed because they make you feel hurt. By removing those subreddits they have proven to be no better than SOPA. Shameful.

So basically what they ended up doing is killing the forum and releasing them to plague all areas of reddit. Smart.

I don't think I've ever seen any post reach 100 votes. This must be some kind of milestone.

I have been on reddit for about 8 years. At one time, it was a small friendly place where people could share cool stories and even help each other out on occasion. That is why I loved it. Lately, I have been disgusted by the amount of nonsense and hate on reddit. Even before this happened, if you browsed r/all, the majority of the top posts were memes, snapchats, instagrams and hate posts. I am a strong supporter of free speech and I disagree with the recent bans, but the fact that people were so angry and have retaliated by posting more and more hate let me know that it was time to leave. So, I hope all of the redditors I have seen around here lately are not the same people who posted in places like r/fatpeoplehate.

What I find most hilarious about this whole thing, is that barely anyone knew about FPH before they banned it. Now it's just ridiculous. Nearly every news site has a story about Reddit and 'fat-shaming' and how they have all these racist and sick subreddits. They didn't think too hard about how the media would cover this. I mean I know that for the most part the media is sympathetic to Reddit, but they're still not painting the site in a good light in any way. Perhaps they should have left their skeletons in the closet.

Somebody better have their resume up to date.

The beginning of the end of reddit? Can it be?

This "F##k you Ellen Pao you SJW piece of s##t." comment got gilded. I don't think people get that they just spent money on a user that will be banned shortly. That or I'm missing something here. Does Reddit Gold act as a shield against banhammers... pth we wish.

It's now quite a few hours later and this is a sampling of /r/all http://i.imgur.com/LrMPh5k.png It doesn't seem to be blowing over any time soon.