Well, it was the birthplace of t_d… not like it didn’t have lots of right wing voices before.
I’m familiar with t_d. They have always been there but they would sequester themselves to right wing spaces. Election time they’d come out their hidey holes but were very easy to spot.
Just leave reddit.
Really, the platform has gone straight to shit in the last 18 months. There are possibly more bots than humans at this point, and a huge number of the people who made it good back in the day are gone. Much of the interaction is now driven by algorithmic rage farming.
Its CEO is a small-minded vicious little fascist. Staying on reddit helps support the hard right.
Leave. Don’t look back. If Lemmy and Mastodon don’t seem as exciting, make them better by being active here.
Lemmy is basically my /r/all and I find use for Reddit when it comes to niche subs. Maybe one day Lemmy will be useful for that but it’s nowhere close to that level right now. There’s also a ton of fucking clowns on Lemmy as well, and you all know who I’m talking about
No, I was only browsing and only because the lag between lemmy and reddit is kinda substantial. They will get breaking stuff faster.
Yeah, well said
Reddit sucks now
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.
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.
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.
Bruh, tell your kids why they’re wrong.
And control what they’re watching.
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.
“Going to?”
One of the reasons I came to Lemmy was because I was tired of their rhetoric. It became very sexist and racist. Not to mention is almost all bots just posting and replying to each other. Reddit was turning into cesspool ages ago.
It was the firing of Victoria in 2015 that was a noticeable enshitification moment for me, perhaps followed by the 2016 election where people seemed to lose the ability to have a discussion altogether (increase of bots no doubt not helping). But the worsening trends were there before hand, these were just moments of acceleration.
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.
Not just right wing voices emerge, democratic people now see it’s pointless to argue. Which is the much bigger damage. Imagine what happens when people no longer fight back. We live in post-factual times, it’s over.
I noticed the exact same thing. So many comments either celebrating Trump or just saying that everyone is being dramatic and Trump will be fine. I’ve also seen a lot of comments calling reddit an “extreme left echo chamber” which is just funny
I find it difficult to defend the idea that Reddit is not a leftist echo chamber. I love Reddit, but it’s not a place you go for open and honest discussions between people from both sides of the aisle. Even non-political subreddits will meet right-leaning and conservative ideas with hostility. You can browse the front page of Reddit every day and never see a single thing even remotely pro-Trump or pro-Republican. That’s not a knock on Reddit. That’s just the truth.
I think seeing anything protrump hit the front page would be so triggering for anyone on there they would leave or have words. This is not a political environment where these two side can exist in the same space because one side is ok with authoritarian and xenophobic rhetoric.
but it’s not a place you go for open and honest discussions between people from both sides of the aisle
Where do you go for such discussions anyway?
Right? What isn’t an echo chamber?
None of what you said makes it “leftist” though. In fact, I’d say you’re likely to get banned from r/politics way faster attacking the DNC party-line neoliberal orthodoxy from the left than you would be from the right.
Liberals don’t know the difference between the left and being a leftist.
Reddit is the past.
That’s why you should be absent from reddit in the first place. Lp
Not my eyes
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.
Reddit is going to transition to a right wing platform right before our eyes.
is going to
Not the first time, same thing happened in 2016
It’s been that way unfortunately.
