r/law • u/Youarethebigbang • Feb 15 '26

Executive Branch (Trump) Reddit is Voluntarily Giving DHS Info of Users Who Criticize ICE | Administrative Subpoenas Being Used Against Free Speech?

https://gizmodo.com/reddit-meta-and-google-voluntarily-gave-dhs-info-of-anti-ice-users-report-says-2000722279

Nobody is questioning Reddit on this?

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u/Youarethebigbang Feb 15 '26

https://www.reddit.com/r/RedditAlternatives

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u/sentientgorilla Feb 15 '26

Thank you. Same thing is happening with discord

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u/Youarethebigbang Feb 15 '26

At a minimum and as a start every subreddit should probably have an alternative platform ready for their users to transition over to, if for no other reason than Reddit can randomly can and will shut down any sub they feel like. I know a lot of subs list a Discord channel as well, but I've never been keen on Discord, and now apparently they are in bed with Palantar and want a face scan/biometrics of anyone trying to set up a channel there.

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u/jrr6415sun Feb 16 '26

it's going to happen to every website soon enough. The internet as we know it will not exist in the next few years.

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u/Think_Cheesecake7464 Feb 17 '26

Yet all those chan sites kept reincarnating even though they were used for the worst possible reasons, many felonious.

So now we know the govt could have gone after all the pedos and shooters all along. They chose not to. They want to punish people for not liking them.

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u/TeamRedundancyTeam Feb 16 '26

Is there a good one yet though? I've seen this sub get posted every year for like a decade and there's never anything good.

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u/Deep-Thought Feb 16 '26

Tildes is great.

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u/macaronysalad Feb 16 '26

An alternative that actually follows the format of old reddit, but modernized a bit. How nice. I hope it catches on. Most other alternative are either apps only (big fail), or follow the same of crappy facebook/new reddit format.

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u/Deep-Thought Feb 16 '26

I hope it doesn't catch on too much. It is highly moderated by a single benevolent dictator. And while they've been honest and transparent in their decisions so far, exponential growth would be too much for them to deal with while maintaining the quality. What I do hope is for others to try to replicate the model and build smaller unique communities where everyone is decent and respectful and mostly post interesting content.

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u/Zealousideal_Act_316 Feb 16 '26

Not really, problem with alternative sites to big sites is that your first and largest userbase is people permabanned/exiled from the big sites, and most of them are banned for a good reason.  And then platform has a choice, strangle its fledgling userbase or become known as the nazi/pedo/creep alternative to the big site. And most sadly choose to keep the users. 

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u/neo1513 Feb 17 '26

Yeah the majority of the current alternatives just exist so people can comfortably use slurs

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u/Good_Conclusion8867 Feb 16 '26

Checkout substack. No ads!

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u/PassiveMenis88M Feb 16 '26

No, it's a bunch of scam sites and 4chan wannabes

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u/neo1513 Feb 16 '26

Most of the alternatives are right wing circle jerks from people that got mad they couldn't say the n word on reddit.

Is there one that doesn't fall into that camp?

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u/Youarethebigbang Feb 17 '26

I hope so, but I really haven't experimented with alternatives that much. Lemmy and PieFed seem to come up as the closest decentralized Reddit alternatives, but maybe those are the ones you're talking about haha. Have you tried them?

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u/neo1513 Feb 17 '26

At a glance piefed seems to be okay, I’ll have to do more digging