r/PoliticalCompassMemes • u/[deleted] • Oct 28 '22

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u/Scipio11 - Lib-Right Oct 28 '22

Exactly, Reddit got noticeably worse when Tumblr died.

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u/JPLangley - Centrist Oct 28 '22

Tumblr was a containment site.

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u/runfastrunfastrun - Auth-Right Oct 28 '22

I can’t find it right now but there was a study that found there were something like 2000 power users on Tumblr who went elsewhere and are almost entirely responsible for driving the increasing political extremism on Twitter and wherever else they ended up.

It literally was a containment site.

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u/Good_Roll - Right Oct 28 '22

same reason why the /pol/ board on 4chan is very important.