I keep an account so I can follow what local redditors are saying about local politics, but everytime I make the mistake of clicking through a headline on the front page I can’t help but notice the “non-political” subs have are regurgitating transphobia (specifically r/sportsgossip & friends).
The only place I don’t see a change in vibes are the CircleJerk subs like AmITheAngel and GirlDinnerDiariesCircleJerk which if I put my conspiracy hat on would suggest the vibes are being pushed by bots or AI(actually Indians).
Even on my local reddit anything pro-police/survailance will have a bunch positive of comments from accounts with names like unoriginal_words_1234 and all their comment history hidden.
Has reddit moved further right recently or is this just 1 particular culture war thing being pushed, it does seem pretty engineered (AFAIK there are 0 trans women in the WNBA)? Has anyone done a study on this? Especially the rightward skew of seemingly bot accounts.
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They’ve been giving us the boot. Banning the loud lefties…you’re seeing the results.
Plus bots.
Reddit’s user base has always been libertarian basement dwellers, they just did a better job of suppressing it right when they were targeting an IPO and the culture war vibes were more profitable to Rainbow Capitalism. r/jailbait and endless Ron Paul worship ought to be the only things Reddit is known for.
When I used reddit it seemed like clearly the majority were left wing Democrats 2005-2020. But the entire spectrum was there.
When Trump won his first election there was a very strong majority against him.Again, this was all PR and good managing. Remember the quarantining of the_donald and it being blocked from the frontpage despite being one of the largest subs with almost a million users (top 50 on the site)?
There was an entire half of the website that was hidden from you because it wasn’t seen as financially smart to be seen as aa social media platform with a large conservative user base.
It’s an algorithmically driven money hound. It will go where ever the money is.
Hard to go much further. I guess they could be more blatant about their position…
IPO, closing the API to 3rd-party mod tools, and suppressing CEO spez Huffman’s history as mod of r/Jailbait … all very right-wing moves
I think the simple explanation is that it is just result of reddit becoming mainstream and bringing the twitter and tiktok crowd which overtime became the larger members of the site.
Noticed it even before the third party app fiasco with things gradually turning into twitter and tiktok reposts filling the /r/all feed leading me to avoid it.
You can go further right than nazi?
I’ve quit Reddit because my local sub was overcome by politically affiliated moron, the party they were pushing had to legitimize a couple of their volunteers because they were in a facist far-right group.
So yeah maybe Reddit is going the right way.
Yea… Bots or Indians. Sounds about right. Then you got the jihadists that want to genocide Israel, the West, and pretty much anyone against pedophiles. Cuz they literally worship pedos. Fuck Islam. Fuck Christianity. And fuck you if you believe in marrying children.
Duh… of course it is.
