The Reddit Meltdown Over $TRUMP | STATE OF CRYPTO 2025

The 2024 election proved that Alternative Media is winning, and places like Reddit crypto forums are losing influence in the state of crypto 2025.

With freedom of speech making a resurgence on X, we believe a new wave of content creators and platforms will emerge that you can take advantage of as a creator, a user, or even an investor.

Here’s a quick rundown on Reddit’s decline and the emerging social media stars where you can cash in.

The Secret History of Reddit

After the death of Reddit co-founder Aaron Swartz, things only got worse for Reddit.

Newly appointed CEO Ellen Pao announced, and I quote, that “Reddit is not a platform for free speech.”

In the years that followed Reddit banned over 7000 subreddits left and right in a never-ending stream of censorship.

Mods became power-hungry dictators, erasing anyone who dared to challenge them. Here’s their freak-out over a Trump presidency in three separate countries:

The bigger issue is that Reddit has several competing corporate interests.

One of them is a Chinese tech giant called Tencent, which owns more than 10% of Reddit. Tencent is the world’s biggest video game company and is notorious for selling its user’s information.

Another big investor is Sam Altman of OpenAI, who owns 12.2 million shares of Reddit and uses it for data collection and surveillance and to promote pro-tech stances that discourage criticism of tech industries.

These investments have one thing in common: they’ve made the website worse for users.

Alternatives to Reddit For Investors and Users

If you’re looking for alternatives to Reddit, these platforms are goldmines for creators and users alike, and they’re ripe for investment.

The first is the crypto option: Farcaster (or what is known as Warpcast on the app store)

saw this on farcaster. pic.twitter.com/9gB1eA4IsH

— Musharraf.base.eth (@musharrafff) January 20, 2025

Launched in 2020 by Coinbase veterans Dan Romero and Varun Srinivasan, Farcaster operates on Optimism, an Ethereum scaling solution. Unlike X, it’s a public, decentralized social media platform with more Web3 acolytes and developers as users.

Farcaster is known for its unique use of the DEGEN token, the first layer-3 meme coin, allowing users to reward each other, buy exclusive access, and earn through platform engagement.

For creators, Farcaster offers a way to monetize content more freely while maintaining control over their audience and data. For investors, it’s a hotbed of early-stage projects and is one of the best platforms to find out if you are still early in a crypto project.

Another platform that will undoubtedly succeed during a Trump presidency is Elon Musk’s X.

While it might’ve been fun to laugh at Elon for buying Twitter for $44 billion, he now has the ear of the three branches of government and the most powerful man on Earth.

In recent highly classified messages about the Twitter deal that were leaked Elon says he wants to:

Create Transparency Team: Elon wants to continue improving the algorithm and put together a “transparency team” for creators
Twitter Video: Elon wants to create a dedicated CONTENT CREATION team that publishes on Twitter first.
Blockchain Twitter: Soon, crypto will be integrated into Twitter (which cryptocurrency. Hm, we wonder?), and he also wants a blockchain database.
Pay for DMs: You can message anyone you want for .01 a DM (500,000 followers = $5,000), so if you want to promote a podcast or new book, you can message a celebrity.

A Final Thought on Rumble

Lastly, we want to talk about Rumble.

Rumble started off as Gab or Truth Social – a lion’s den for the right wing, much like how Reddit is for the Left.

But lately Rumble has become more inclusive and is even one of the few companies adding Bitcoin to its balance sheet! For anyone looking for a fresh, financially rewarding platform, Rumble is worth considering.

Here one last post of Reddit cope over Donald Trump’s victory to have you on your way: