Posted on 11/27/2019 3:27:16 PM PST by V K Lee
A new social media platform for supporters of President Trump has emerged as his backers continue to migrate away from traditional forums such as Reddit.
The new website, thedonald.win, was created by users of the r/The_Donald subreddit after Reddit became more controlling about what content could be posted in the forum. In June, the company announced that the subreddit would be “quarantined.”
The quarantine, which is still in effect, doesn’t ban the forum but removes certain features and restricts how its content is shared. It also includes a warning about viewing the subreddit.
The new website is structured similarly to r/The_Donald. It includes features that allow users to upvote and downvote posts and comments as well as filter content by "hot," "new," "rising," and "top."
According to a post from a moderator last week, the platform has been a long time coming. The person said there were fears that if Reddit found out about the new website, it would ban r/The_Donald.
“We've been developing this site in secret for the better part of the year,” the moderator wrote. “Believe me, not letting it slip was difficult, with the rising tide of people begging for a backup as Reddit got worse and worse. We felt the need to keep it as tight-lipped as possible for fear that Reddit would find out and find reason to ban us over it to crush our movement.”
The moderator said they felt as if they needed to hurry and release the website after Reddit began limiting the ability of users to discuss the alleged whistleblower at the center of the impeachment effort, 33-year-old CIA analyst Eric Ciaramella.
Reddit warned r/The_Donald about using his name last week, telling users “posts that do nothing more than attempt to focus mob attention on this alleged individual cross a line.”
The new forum has eight rules posted along the side of the website: users must be Trump supporters, not engage in racism, follow the law, not reveal anyone’s real identity, be respectful, not be a self-promoter, ask moderation questions privately, and “don’t be dumb.”
re: “Trump supporters create social media platform tailored for them”
The TL;DR is THEY ARE BEING KICKED OFF THE SUBREDDIT The_Donald.
I know, rocket science, right?
Highly recommended.
Thanks for link
I do too.... so easy to navigate
We need to be honest - the issue isn’t “alternatives”. It is Big Tech colluding to KILL the alternatives.
Gab.ai was an alternative to Twitter. Liberal companies cited racist speech as the reason they removed it from the Google and Apple app stores, while Big Tech buried the site in search results, refused their adds and nearly purged them from social media.
Patreon funded content creators. It joined the conservative purge. Freestartr and Subscribestar initially continued to fund these creators. Then Chase, Paypal, Stripe and another payment processor COLLUDED to shut off the money. One site closed, the other caved.
This is big business colluding to kill the alternatives. Note that these same companies collude to shut down payment processing on individuals’ websites, too. This is why Pamela Gellar asks for checks - she can’t process donations any other way. And the Proud Boys. And Alex Jones.
Google kicked gun channels off Youtube. They moved to Pornhub. A year later, payment processors start choking off money to a porn site they had no issues with 24 months ago. The issue is the guns, not the porn.
We need to be honest - the issue isn’t “alternatives”. It is Big Tech colluding to KILL the alternatives.
Gab.ai was an alternative to Twitter. Liberal companies cited racist speech as the reason they removed it from the Google and Apple app stores, while Big Tech buried the site in search results, refused their adds and nearly purged them from social media.
Patreon funded content creators. It joined the conservative purge. Freestartr and Subscribestar initially continued to fund these creators. Then Chase, Paypal, Stripe and another payment processor COLLUDED to shut off the money. One site closed, the other caved.
This is big business colluding to kill the alternatives. Note that these same companies collude to shut down payment processing on individuals’ websites, too. This is why Pamela Gellar asks for checks - she can’t process donations any other way. And the Proud Boys. And Alex Jones.
Google kicked gun channels off Youtube. They moved to Pornhub. A year later, payment processors start choking off money to a porn site they had no issues with 24 months ago. The issue is the guns, not the porn.
Shadow banning is dishonest. It is like letting people write letters before you shred them, or accepting people’s applications but never processing them.
It is LYING to them, intentionally creating the false impression you’re working with them.
We need to be honest - the issue isn’t “alternatives”. It is Big Tech colluding to KILL the alternatives.
Gab.ai was an alternative to Twitter. Liberal companies cited racist speech as the reason they removed it from the Google and Apple app stores, while Big Tech buried the site in search results, refused their adds and nearly purged them from social media.
Patreon funded content creators. It joined the conservative purge. Freestartr and Subscribestar initially continued to fund these creators. Then Chase, Paypal, Stripe and another payment processor COLLUDED to shut off the money. One site closed, the other caved.
This is big business colluding to kill the alternatives. Note that these same companies collude to shut down payment processing on individuals’ websites, too. This is why Pamela Gellar asks for checks - she can’t process donations any other way. And the Proud Boys. And Alex Jones.
Google kicked gun channels off Youtube. They moved to Pornhub. A year later, payment processors start choking off money to a porn site they had no issues with 24 months ago. The issue is the guns, not the porn.
Great site, and I do like to go to The Donald to see what they have - and it’s often really good.
TheDonald.Win was set up by the same people who set up The Donald on Reddit - so it works out great for us, as Reddit will soon be shutting down The Donald, due to it’s ‘non-inclusive’ bent (i.e., they support America).
“Shadow banning is dishonest. It is like letting people write letters before you shred them, or accepting people’s applications but never processing them.”
Screw them. If they want to troll and muck up our sites, then let them figure out if they’re being shadow-banned - as they don’t have any ‘right’ to behave that way on someone else’s site. If they don’t like it, they can find other sites to troll on.
About time for something like this. Good news.
Definitely going to keep the grammar Nazis busy, and forewarning if you are sensitive to foul language.
Graduate & Professional degree ping!
Highly recommended.
I hope you're posting this on Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube. If not, what's the point?
Very good points.
Excellent. Good to hear.
You can customize Facebook into your own special site by simply blocking everyone who disses the president, uses foul language or posts vulgar pictures, or insults you personally. Why bother if it’s not going to be fun?
Thank you.
Joined!
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