1% of Reddit’s political contributions went straight into the Republican Party. It will only get worse from here.
This unfortunately
I’m on Reddit way less than I use to
There are many legitimate reasons to not use Reddit
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.
Perhaps all the bots pushing her campaign got shut down, and the site is now organic again?
There’s no way r/all was that interested in her campaign to start with. The past couple of weeks have been super weird. I check the top 10 post on r/all regularly to see if anything special is going on in the world as i can’t be bothered doom scrolling news sites.
All that’s been on the top is how amazing she is and awful he is. I highly doubt the average user is that invested in the topic.
Because there weren’t any fascist bots?
Reddit is the past.
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.
“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.
Not my eyes
That’s why you should be absent from reddit in the first place. Lp
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?
It’s been that way unfortunately.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
It’s also had an increase in tankie views.
Looks like it’s becoming a pro-authoritarian platform.
Tankies are pretty crazy. Will be hard to keep things from becoming a fight between tankies and fascists.
Just remember, end of the day, these are archetypes that always end in oppression. You should lend your support to people who don’t fit a mold. It might not be successful in its first iteration but through the iterative process it becomes the answer to an unsolved problem. It will have its own problems too. So remember to fend off bad faith actors best you can. A system designed to defeat authoritarianism will be week to one emerging from inside.
Are you sure that isn’t just bot regurgitating comment from a year or two ago?
I’m sure of nothing.
