Sometimes I miss the 2016 version of myself, where I would get a mild dopamine boost about funny jokes about the orange man, or seeing a celebrity endorse my favorite DNC war criminal - blissfully unaware of global politics, war, and genocide.
reddit has a well known mod problem: with some of them modding all major subs with their shitty bias, some who took money to allow/disallow some bullshit, or some that straight up represent the corporations the user sub is supposed to provide a good forum for.
redditminusmods was a sub that simply posted daily screencaps of what reddit would look like without them, going by mod logs or something. i think it represents the mod problem very well, reddit would be much less ragebaity and notably less reactionary on some instances.
once in 9/11, amid the usual, some arab sub posted a video of the bombings that ensued in the middle east and they got upvoted right to the frontpage then promptly shadowbanned and erased, the thread was GONE it was pretty funny.
i think i may have used a terrible example with redditminusmods because it had the spotlight for a very short while there. very eye-opening of the problem though.
It’s a sub that also appears to be banned now. I went to look into it, and it was gone. It could be something worth reviving on Lemmy honestly. Just for the sake of my own curiosity anyway, ha.
Yeah, it’s been pretty clear for a long time that there is no impartiality to the nature of the reddit feed. That might have been true in the early days, before there were even subreddits, but not anymore.
