as one comment over there said, something to the effect of: “if our opponents were trying to destroy the subreddit by reducing community engagement, they’ve succeeded”

I think as we’ve witnessed thus far, the moderator team seems to be very insecure about anyone discussing any kind of alternative online community. E.g., there shall be no discussion of Lemmy whatsoever.

I really cannot think of a valid reason why that mod team would forbid discussion of Lemmy other than for reasons that conclude they are acting not in good faith. They evidently do not want the community going somewhere beyond their space of control and containment.

Personally I think that the best way forward is to simply create a great community here on Lemmy, and the people will naturally find this place over time, similar to how the DRSyourGME subreddit was gaining success before being permabanned by reddit.

Superstonk censored all talk about DRS plan versus DRS book, and then one day some high quality DD showed up about this topic over on the DRSyourGME subreddit. Many superstonk members were members of both communities and started telling other superstonk members to go check out the DD on the DRSyourGME subreddit. Superstonk mods tried very hard to remove all posts and mention of such discussions, but ultimately failed in their attempts to censor that information.

Reddit showed us the door, and now we’re here. But, in a similar way as before, if this place simply is a place where great discussions are had, where high quality original content and DD is posted, then it will continue to grow and thrive. There needs to be content here that is worth sharing over on reddit. As this happens, then this community will see the same success that the DRSyourGME subreddit saw, only this time Reddit doesn’t have the ability to pull the plug on us.

Speaking of BBBY related discussion:

I contemplated writing up a post about this, but I’ll just write it here in this comment.

On September 7, one day after GME released Q2 earnings, there was a highly-upvoted post in superstonk suggesting that GameStop is gearing up for M&A activity.

The top comment in that thread:

Excellent post. You’ll probably get banned.

What does this say about the state of that subreddit? It is evident that the community is aware that the mods of the subreddit are antagonistic towards anything that might so much as hint in the direction of BBBY. Talking about a merger and acquisition and towel stock in the same post? that’s verging on forbidden for some reason. Speculation of all kind in all directions is totally acceptable, but mention towel stock and the mods tend to go on a power trip.

Also on September 7, WSJ reported that the SEC is investigating Ryan Cohen for BBBY-related pump and dump accusations. This WSJ article was posted in Superstonk, BBBY, thePPshow, wallstreetbets, and gme_meltdown subreddits.

Only, the post in Superstonk was removed about an hour after it was posted. I went looking for it and it was gone. Had to find it in my web browser history.

The post was removed for Rule 2: Posts & Comments: Must be relevant to GME. I unfortunately did not grab a screenshot of reference to rule 2, so you’ll have to trust me bro on that. But I did grab this screenshot for example of another thread:

Again, the WSJ article was present in at least 4 other subreddits. the announcement that the SEC was apparently investigating the executive chairman of GameStop (for behavior not explicitly related to GME) apparently wasn’t related to GME.

Several hours later, they un-removed the post, with the comment that is there that says: “Sorry, with the flood of posts, we trimmed them too hard. Leaving this one up.”

What I believe happened was that the mods, with a history of censoring anything at all related to BBBY, deliberately removed this post, because as they do, they didn’t want “their” subreddit discussing stuff about BBBY. Removed the post because it was too much about BBBY. Only to realize later that it was too heavy handed, even for them, to not permit discussion about the fact that the executive chairman of GameStop was apparently being investigated by the SEC and that this conversation was being had in at least 4 other subreddits but not the biggest GME subreddit. So they un-removed it after the fact and pretended that it was an honest mistake and not something that they did deliberately.

That place is so censored that it’s nearly impossible to have any kind of discussion. The hedgies took it over and they don’t allow any kind of meaningful discussion there. They drown it in a sea of “macroeconomics” news pieces and shit that is only tangentially relevant to GME.

By SuSt, do you mean r/superstonk? I appreciate your ideas to break the containment!