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The history of raddit.me

Hate-speech on reddit.com was at an all time high, with endless subs dedicated to promoting hate and 'joking' about murdering anyone who isn't a heterosexual white male. These 'alt right' trolls especially took pleasure in doxing activists.

The admins of reddit are so morally bankrupt that they saw fit to send a gold-plated award to an infamous pedophile and neo-nazi after he created pedo-hive r/jailbait. Then reddit.com's warrant canary was killed, exposing our personal data to the American government. In the months leading up to the US election, The_Donald completely took over the site and likely propelled Donald Trump into the white house. Reddit then announced they were no longer open source, and effectively screwed all the volunteers that had spent their time and energy improving the site without compensation.

We put up with this hostile atmosphere for a long time, but then the last straw came when reddit.com admins began shutting down leftist subs and banning leftist users and mods for no clear reason. The admins then started banning entire leftist domains from being linked to their site.

A few of us who were sick of this mistreatment decided to leave redditcorp behind and create a space where we wouldn't always be looking over our shoulders because of that company's fascist-enabling policies.

So when several leftist subs got mass-reported by fascists and then banned by the admins, the original raddit.me was thrown together by ziq using various Wordpress plugins literally overnight. The site was up and running within hours of the leftist crackdown.

The plan from the start was to replace the clunky Wordpress site with a site built from scratch. We were incredibly fortunate that emma volunteered to single-handedly make this a reality. About 6 months later, raddit.me relaunched as this fully featured link sharing site without any of reddit or imzy's bloat, and with a mission statement to give the people control over their own community.

While the rest of the web has rapidly been taken over by alt-right trolls and bigots, raddit will always have a zero tolerance policy when it comes to reactionary ideas and bigotry.

This site was made by the people for the people, and actualizing the community's ideas to construct the best possible meeting place is our entire motivation. We won't censor your BASH THE FASH memes or ban you for sharing 'subversive' literature like a certain other site keeps doing. But all reactionaries will be removed from your sight.


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Hate-speech on reddit.com was at an all time high, with endless subs dedicated to promoting hate and 'joking' about murdering anyone who isn't a heterosexual white male. These 'alt right' trolls especially took pleasure in [doxing activists](https://www.buzzfeed.com/ryanhatesthis/trump-supporters-have-built-a-document-with-the-addresses).

The admins of reddit are so morally bankrupt that they saw fit to [send a gold-plated award](https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2012/10/watch-reddits-biggest-troll-defend-himself/322355/) to an infamous pedophile and neo-nazi after he created pedo-hive r/jailbait. Then reddit.com's [warrant canary was killed](https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/mar/31/reddit-removes-warrant-canary-signaling-us-sought-its-user-data), exposing our personal data to the American government. In the months leading up to the US election, The_Donald [completely took over the site](http://i.imgur.com/OZveFRN.png) and likely propelled Donald Trump into the white house. Reddit then [announced](https://betanews.com/2017/09/04/reddit-open-source-changes/) they were no longer open source, and effectively screwed all the volunteers that had spent their time and energy improving the site without compensation.

We put up with this hostile atmosphere for a long time, but then the last straw came when reddit.com admins began [shutting](http://archive.is/Ocbuj) down leftist [subs](http://archive.is/Idtdg) and [banning](https://archive.fo/l4nQx) leftist [users](http://i.imgur.com/k92ovZh.png) and [mods](http://i.imgur.com/WP3PGI4.png) for [no](http://archive.is/q4bIp) clear [reason](http://archive.is/2cDe1). The admins then started [banning entire leftist domains](http://archive.is/JvRi1) from being linked to their site.

A few of us who were sick of this mistreatment decided to leave redditcorp behind and create a space where we wouldn't always be looking over our shoulders because of that company's fascist-enabling policies.

So when several leftist subs got mass-reported by fascists and then banned by the admins, the [original](https://archive.radzi.me) raddit.me was thrown together by ziq using various Wordpress plugins literally overnight. The site was up and running within hours of the leftist crackdown.

The plan from the start was to replace the clunky Wordpress site with a site built from scratch. We were incredibly fortunate that emma volunteered to single-handedly make this a reality. About 6 months later, raddit.me relaunched as this fully featured link sharing site without any of reddit or imzy's bloat, and with a mission statement to give the people control over their own community.

While the rest of the web has rapidly been taken over by alt-right trolls and bigots, raddit will always have a zero tolerance policy when it comes to reactionary ideas and bigotry.

This site was made by the people for the people, and actualizing the community's ideas to construct the best possible meeting place is our entire motivation. We won't censor your BASH THE FASH memes or ban you for sharing 'subversive' literature like a certain other site keeps doing. But all reactionaries will be removed from your sight.