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.
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.