>>1621498/bant/ has been under a lot of foreign influence.
/pol/, /b/ and /trash/ have all tried to migrate here but failed, while /jp/ is sort of present with their Cirnoes. Or I don't know if that's /ota/.
Some /int/ might be present but I'm not familiar with them.
God help us once other sites start to notice we're here.
>>1621518Reddit's an internet cargo cult. What they model is long gone by now.
>>1621534And it wasn't political in the sense of being an attempted replacement for a mascot that became heavily associated with other undesirable groups.
>>1621581Maybe not, but a group needs a way to recognize their own members or it'll fall apart.
You can do it with names or with memes or things like extraflags, but for a group to stay functional it needs to be able to recognize it's own members.
>>1621595Reddit's current userbase is very different from the one they started with.
The site was written in lisp and was mostly about programming, or something to that effect. Not entirely sure.