Historically, I’ve perceived Reddit as slightly left leaning, with strong pockets of conservatives. Recently though, a vast majority of comment sections seem to excuse violence, such as in this thread (TW: police brutality), where people say things like
TW: Supporting violence
The students didn’t hurt the bullets, right?
They paid to learn so… You go learn today
Um…good?
Follow the rules of the people who own the property. If they ask you to leave then leave. Don’t interfere with people’s incomes or you’ll end up finding the fuck out
Got it. The next time I stand on a private piece of grass that I paid 200 grand for the privilege of using, I should expect to be shot at like I deserve. I’ll keep that in mind.
When the owner of the property wants you to move on? Yeah. Move on. Or don’t and find out.
And I’m seriously wondering when Reddit got so bad that the hivemind supports calls for violence. Are these humans? Are they bots? Why does reddit allow this conduct?
I left reddit for good 4 years ago for just this reason. I suspect it was well before that, like when someone tracked the IPS of reddit users and discovered that the most redditors were in the town where Eglin Air Force base is located. Now there’s more bots but they used to have more people just doing the same shit. Lots of large police forces have big social media teams I wonder what they do. And the most prolific mod and poster of their time was likely Ghislaine Maxwell. Oh and their CEO made their career in the CIA before coming over to Reddit, which from what we know about people who left the CIA to go into media, is that they never really left
I think reddit is Usally far left ngl (if that’s a word) I never really seen racism happening it just gets deleted
I remember someone on reddit saying the n slur to me I reported him and reddit deleted the account (idk?)
Everywhere is shit. Lemmy has those folks too
Friendly reminder the “block user” function is available on all your favorite platforms. Much like we had to invest the time in filtering mail back in the day, so do we have to do the same for comment threads now.
I don’t think this will solve the issue OP is describing. They’re concerned at the existence of fascists on reddit, not just that they are seeing them. Blocking them all would be more like sticking your fingers in your ears and saying it doesn’t exist.
Reddit still trends liberal overall, but anti-police sentiment has been on a decline for awhile. To me, it feels like the anti-establishment crowd basically died out completely over the pandemic. Reddit also tends to trend anti-hamas and pro-israel, the newer users don’t really understand that you can be against both so if it hurts the one they don’t like, it has to be good.
Historically, I’ve perceived Reddit as slightly left leaning, with strong pockets of conservatives.
Yes, in international subreddits. The national ones were often right leaning (e.g. r/Canada, r/Mexico).
It simply grew too big and corporate. Reddit is not a niche social network anymore. It’s Facebook.
It was never a niche social network. In the beginning, Spez used sockpuppets to fake engagement, later on advertisers and state actors (In 2016, they forgot to scrub the bots from their statistics, and posted that Eglin Airforce Base was the most reddit-addicted city) generated engagement.
What it absolutely was a niche network to the point where if reddit was mentioned in mainstream media it made big waves. Dudes even had secret greetings like when does the narval bacon or smt like that I don’t remember. But reddit was super niche and that’s what made it special imo. The first secret santa exchanges were trully amazing, unique experiences that will never be replicated again and the platform was full of these niche little gems that are forever lost now.
Reddit also harbored trading rings for CSAM. It took a CNN report about r/jailbait for it to be removed. There was also r/picsofdeadkids. r/creepshots.
I assume it happened around the time most of us left for other places. The fascist community there probably hasn’t grown much in numbers, but as a percentage it increased because the decent people left.
'Twas the added limitation of the Public Reddit API. Basically, everyone good left and everyone crappy is staying.
June 30th, 2023. There were always subreddits like r/thedonald that used violent right wing authoritarian cult-like political rhetoric, but after the users and mods who gave half a shit left when they banned third party apps and sided with advertisers over the people keeping it from becoming 99% bots and bootlickers.
Or in other words, Spez decided to speedrun enshitification.
Yes
Reddit admins straight up love Nazis. That’s not hyperbole. It’s a long and recorded history.
…with strong pockets of conservatives.
Being loud, disrespectful and obnoxious is frequently an attempt to mask weakness and insecurity.
I get what you mean, though. I avoid that cesspool as much as possible.
This shit is spreading everywhere, even to non-US subreddits. I regularly saw anti-muslim, homophobic comments on supposedly non-political subreddits like /r/indianboysontinder.
Even self-proclaimed feminist subreddit like TwoXIndia has their members posting BJP talking points when duscussion turn to politics
I mean tbf Islamophobia on an Indian subreddit isn’t surprising.
It used to be limited to right wing subreddits but now its everywhere
Fascism’s quite profitable until they start rounding people up.
Helping keep track of who to round up was very profitable for IBM, and it was for Facebook in Myanmar.
And even then, it’s profitable for the “right” sort of people… :-P
I said, “when will he die already”, referring to Trump? And was permanently banned. “Inciting violence.”
I said, “He should be shot” to a picture of Reagan. Who was shot and lived for two decades after that and was banned for 6 days.
If I can’t say ridiculous things on the Internet where the fuck else am I supposed to say it?
