1% of Reddit’s political contributions went straight into the Republican Party. It will only get worse from here.
That’s why you should be absent from reddit in the first place. Lp
Not the first time, same thing happened in 2016
2016 was an absolute shit show on Reddit. It was a dogfight between the Bernie Bros and the Trumpers until Bernie got knocked out of the primaries then knocked off Reddit by CTR. Then it was a dogfight between the ShillDawgs and the MAGAts with the t_d’ers eventually coming out on top because of their willingness to endlessly game the Reddit algorithm.
Remember how furious people got that they removed a subreddit entirely dedicated to bullying fat people?
Yes I do.
I remember a friend of mine had a pic of herself stolen and someone slapped a caption on it saying something like “people tell me I look like Ariana Grande” and it was uploaded there. I heard about it and then a few months or years later saw it got reposted. Absolutely insane shit.
It’s happening here as well.
Yeah the mods keep letting filthy degen conservatives through
No /s
They wanted a corporate hellscape, they know where it is, go back where you came from, conservatives.
A lot of active people left, be it here, Tildes, Discuit, Discord.
The population still there has a higher right wing ratio
Reddit needs to switch because the right wing propaganda machine doesn’t like competition and wants reddit for itself. They aren’t going to Twitter it because it fragile enough, being mod run, to fall apart. Instead they will flip it.
Not to be “that guy,” but it really has been happening for quite awhile now (/r/thedonald as one example). And I agree it seems inevitable that it will only get worse.
This is worrying because reddit is basically the first search result of every google search right now
Meh, it’s also usually useless. Much less useful then it had been in the past. I honestly have more luck with gpt then scrolling through dead posts with 1 response that I have to load twice because anything other than old reddit is a psychic attack that will wound me.
Ughhh. It’s insane to me how few comments Reddit loads by default now.
So many good answer are buried under few levels of comments, Really can’t have collective knowledge fall into some parasite’s hands like that again. I bet many people are here for that reason.
surely you don’t go to the comments section because you want to see comments? you go there because you want post recommendations, right? please click on the recommended posts
Not saying it’s useful, but will lead to reddit gaining users who are then influenced by the right wing bullshit they come across.
Welcome to America. I watched my dad get indoctrinated from ages 14 to 30. It started after a bad divorce and I often wonder if there was ever a real, living, thinking, adventurous, person under there. He has so many story’s of his extraordinary past but I look at him today and he’s just a cog collecting garbage. If I had the financial freedom he managed to weasle out through inheritance and disability I would break down walls.
Sorry, got distracted, my point is it doesn’t take a rabbit hole through some reddit link to fall into conservative media. They literally pump it out into the airwaves for anyone with a am radio to consume endlessly.
If there is any hope for future generations it will be the tradition of Americans to flip the table and fuck shit up. Unfortunately the GOP co-opted those types and are winning on that front too.
Will be interesting to watch their fall from grace. The ones who make it out. No more interesting then watching the fuck ups that escape the Mormon church, or anything of the sort, though.
This unfortunately
I’m on Reddit way less than I use to
There are many legitimate reasons to not use Reddit
Spez has been trying to emulate Elon as much as possible, sucking up to him whenever he can. He sees Twitter as the goal for Reddit to reach.
You’re going to see the same thing happen on just about every major corporate social platform real soon. Meta’s platforms, TikTok, YouTube, Twitch… They’re all hurting for cash now that they’ve mostly dried up all their VC funding from the 2010s and are 100% going to appeal to the Right, who have promised to give businesses more rights and legal protections than ever before.
The US is already transitioning to a right wing society right before you eyes. Reddit as well as all mainstream media are just following this movement.
Be specific, right wing, authoritarian run, society.
They make women wear burqas in the middle east. The gnashing of teeth around here will be very unsettling.
I wouldn’t have agreed with you a week ago but I think you’re right. I live in Loudoun county Virginia which is quite blue. My oldest kid who is 15 asked me if I was really voting for Harris, because he and his friends like Trump more. Then my second oldest who is 11 also told me he likes Trump more than Harris.
My family is Dutch Canadian so it’s not like anyone in my family was speaking positively about Trump. Quite the opposite actually.
They are getting all these ideas online and conservatives are absolutely crushing the digital landscape with podcasts and YouTube. They are making connections with the youth that the dems just aren’t offering right now.
Bruh, tell your kids why they’re wrong.
And control what they’re watching.
It’s because they’re offering easy answers to complicated problems. No one wants to listen to me explain for 45 minutes why something is an issue that dates back three decades and will probably require three more decades of fixing, they just want to feel good now.
Not my eyes
It’s been that way unfortunately.
Starting to emerge or the left wing bots going down? Or the insanely heavy handed left wing mods not banning every person for being even slightly right wing because they got a reality check?
The amount of content about Israel/Palestine that is swamped by Zionists on Reddit would imply that it is mostly already far right. The latest being the attempts to control the narrative of what happened in Netherlands around the football match. But not sure anyone believes the Zionist side of that one.
The stuff coming from r normaldayinrussia was concerning and this was pre election.
I’m watching leftist subs already get filled up with Russian propaganda about the election being stolen. It’s depressing. They’re doing the same shit to us as they did to the right in 2020 and we’re falling for it.
The right actually LARPed it and some of them still do today lol
But yeah prolly did get that great idea from a shill op and organge man flamed since it resonated
I haven’t seen any of my friends repeat stolen election claims. Most everyone seems to feel that the margin was huge, and the DNC fucked up, but it is what it is. A few are panicking and worried of violence, so we’re getting together for a bonfire together to reassure them that we’ll all be OK, and we are in an area where no one would allow harm to come to their neighbor. We lived through four years of Trump before, and it was stupid every day, and we’ll live through it again.
The implications of actually deporting all the illegals, & Trumps repeated rhetoric of persecuting his political opponents is what is really worrying me. The project 2025 agenda being the playbook… Theyve had 4 years of planning for this second time around of the monkeys running the circus
Yep, vast majority is foreign actors is my guess. Trying to get us to tear ourselves apart
