Relatively neutral subs like r/publicfreakout are now packed with chuds and the only left-leaning subs that survived the purge have tons of libs and/or very little activity. I know reddit always sucked but it seems to have gotten much worse.
After the purge it seems like the popular tab is nothing but reactionary takes and sentimentality. It’s basically become Facebook
Publicfreakout was never really neutral
Those rightists on Reddit have always been there, they just stay away from r/politics and so on because they’re outnumbered–recent events have made them less cautious, however
I’ve noticed the same. Any sub that isn’t explicitly a leftist space seems to be overtly hostile to any meaningfully divergent opinion from the left now. I never had as much of a problem with reddit as a lot of people do, or maybe I was just more willing to curate my feed to avoid the worst of it, but my sense is that the big ban drove out a lot of leftists while doing little to discourage chuds.
It’s bittersweet. On the one hand, I like reddit as a content aggregator, and sometimes as a discussion platform where the discussion was tolerable. On the other hand, it’s never been that good, and it would be nice to have an excuse to log off and not go back.
I logged off, blacklisted the site, and deleted RIF from my phone last night and I hope I never go back. All my homies hate reddit.
I just wish there was another content aggregator that worked as well as reddit. Chaopochat is good for some news, and some opinions, but dedicated communities about niche topics isn’t really gonna happen here unless this place grows to a million+ daily users
My comments sharing a link to a book about Bill Gates got removed by /r/insanepeoplefacebook automod yesterday. It was weird.
That’s their MO. They don’t have to worry about their ideas being “valid” or “correct,” all they have to do is be hostile for its own sake and drive moderates out of public spaces, leaving only the twisted reactionaries who fawn over dominance and cruelty as much as they do.
Any sub that isn’t explicitly a leftist space seems to be overtly hostile to any meaningfully divergent opinion from the left now.
Which is funny because they still concern troll about “the narrative” being biased against right wing opinions.
i’ve been on that trash site for 10+ years and i regret to say it’s always been this way; i’ve just grown more left wing so i am more aware of the fuckery.
2015-early 2016 was crazy in terms of how hard right reddit shfited, I wonder how 2020 stacks up to that, to be honest I still think late 2015 was way worse
y’all remember the comments on r/worldnews? Around 2015-early 2016 they were fucking horrifying. I remember pretty much every article describing a tragedy having comments being filled with bloodlust and people posting about “failed integration” due to “cultural differences”. Those same differences were never ever ever expunded upon, and it was just mostly concluded that “those people” were inferior for some odd reason.
