So many people were bootlicking Andy Yen in the Reddit thread. Where the commenters were attacking the poster for suggesting that he should resign from the ceo position for praising Donald Trump and then doubling down on the original statement using the official proton account.
When I check the subreddits from my country its mostly left content. I really don’t have that feeling although I think its not as politically onesided as it is here
The majority of reddit content is bots, shills, and astroturfing
And there is some people who still use it (30%?).
It’s also still very progressive. If reddit is considered conservative to you, you may be very far left.
It used to be center left but not anymore
I mean, all the leftists on Reddit… left.
Exactly over 2 years now I far left and got the fuck off Reddit. Soon as RIF died I left.
Reddit is a shell now, and they’re desperately filling it with AI.
Old search results, mostly.
AND deranged. I posted a comment about the blow back that seniors are going to feel from the disruption among staffing in the caregiving field, and got banned from a sub, along with comments that I was “calling for elder abuse”. It was fun while it lasted, but I am DONE looking forward to watching Lemmy explode
There are also several posts on whether or not Elon Musk did the Nazi salute (many of which are denying it) and being against women.
Reddit has always been right wing. I’ve seen the comments on us arabs on terrorist attacks. Fucking disgusting.
Once upon a time I got called a terrorist WHILE I was performing on a community theater stage. The bright spot was how quickly my fellow actors and the rest of the patrons shut that down
please, dont go on Instagram reels.
Has it, or were there always pockets of all kinds of schools of thought? It seemed that way to me at least until Spez decided money was more important than anything else and a good chunk of the left-leaners decided they’d be better off elsewhere.
That’s not a pejorative, by the way. I’m a left-leaner. And I, well, left.
I’d say i’m very left wing, too. But reddit always felt off to me, like i wasn’t meant to be there. I see why now, due to them saying this stuff about us when they can.
but the majority are just conservatives/faux-liberals who’d sell you out and your race for their own convenience, anyway.
It was much less overt and fascistic in like 2011, fuck I’m old
The racism is definitely there, you can scroll like three posts on trending and there it is again. One of the main reasons I left.
I was going to screenshot some examples from a single thread, but there were too fucking many. Holy shit.
I’m not much of a reddit defender as i pretty much left this place same time as everybody else. However there’s always been a very clear trend in this kind of subreddits. Places like “noahgettheboat” or “iamapieceofshit” or “thatsinsane” systematically attract the worst kind of misanthropic low-lifes. People will see the most abject violence and laugh “haha he fucked around and found out” and of course this makes the most fascistic types feel at home.
I don’t think they are representative of the overall slant of the community. Most places are progressive by default.
Reddit is corporate, of course the FP will be sanitized. But the real disgusting part are the obscure or small subreddits.
I’ve seen comments praise Europa as a “documentary” when it is just neo nazi propaganda. Lemmy has shortcomings but at least I can call this out without being downvoted to obscurity (TBF my main comment is pretty controversial but I think that’s just because how I worded it)
That’s why it’s important to heavily curate your corporate social media feed. If you see a community where this kind of comments are heavily upvoted just hide it and move on, there’s not that many and most of the niche interests are still relatively clean places.
How is reddit right wing? Half of the posts on there bashes Trump, and praise Biden.
I’m left wing, and it feels like most of reddit has become a left wing echo chamber
Spoiler alert: Biden isn’t left wing
What is left wing?
No, it has not. And it’s still very progressive.
progressive
??? If reddit is progressive then 4chan is moderate.
Ffs, they even push anti semitic conspiracy theories saying to watch europa.
https://web.archive.org/web/20201012004528/https://old.reddit.com/r/exmuslim/comments/j96358/nonarab_muslims_are_arab_bootlickers/ (on ex muslim but calls arabs sand n*rs)
Cherry picking comments isn’t a good argument. Browse r/politics.
Not only are those comments highly upvoted, they are high up in the comment section.
So? There’s hundreds of thousands comments daily that are liberal comments. Where even are these comments you found posted? You may have had a bad experience, but most of reddit is very liberal.
It is objectively very liberal.
It IS liberal, and those same people will turn against us the moment they realise we aren’t dogs that listen to every order. They do this every election season and throw minorities under the bus. They’re faux liberals.
Where even are these comments you found posted?
Literally after the #2 comment under the post, what are you talking about.
I didn’t mention any post, I’m not sure what you are talking about. Honestly, dude, maybe you should just stop going there?
Hell, maybe even just get off the internet for awhile. You’re downvoting comments you don’t agree with and arguing over stupid shit. Move on.
Why ya reading it?
All of this is gibberish to me, and yet it makes perfect sense.
