Now Reddit’s not just promoting ragebait and AI generated stories, but divisive conservative rhetoric. Anyone else notice the non-political subreddits spontaneously hosting a population of chuds and propagandists where a few weeks ago they weren’t tolerated?
Has reddit changed the algorithm? Has some nation begun its bot operation? Has reddit deployed bots at musk’s behest? Has twitter sent its worst users to brigade? (All of twitter’s users are its worst users) I don’t know, but the effect is striking. All I’m certain about is that I’m avoiding reddit even harder now.
Please stop reporting comments that you don’t like, we only remove rule breaking posts/comments.
Any of the reports funny or are they all just angery? There used to be a subreddit for funny user reports, where mods would chronicle the silliest reports and Ive had a hankering
Not this time haha, just people mainly reporting for “breaks community rules” but the comment doesn’t
I wonder if it’s that in part with the mass exodus to federated internet
Wait, there was another one? Why?
They just banned pretty much all nsfw subs because of a “bug”, including abuse support subs. Probably due to that.
And there was the white people twitter ban, as well as some Musk critical subs a day or two before the"bug".
Yeah there was one about a year and a half ago when all that shit happened with the third party apps, then again very recently as people have become disillusioned with corporation-owned social media.
I just deleted all my posts and my account there. Havent used it much anyways since the 2023 api changes. Though I still use rdx on iOS to read few sports sections for the latest news.
rdx?
Oh nice, had not seen this. Thanks!
A post with some links on the topic: https://old.reddit.com/r/TheoryOfReddit/comments/1ik0bhu/reddits_algorithm_change_and_why_youre_feeling/
There are also a couple of subreddits that are still good. But from what I can see, Reddit is probably only good now for visiting the subreddit of your country or town. I also still look at Reddit for occasional news, as long as I avoid mainstream news subreddits that go on the front-page.
It’s been plagued by bots for like 15 years and the last 5 AI has been the killing blow of it being entirely useless it used to be the place to get actual humans talking about things and giving each other real advice from their lived experience and now it’s just a ton of AI pretending. And as it continues to recursively feed off itself it’ll continue to become total trash. With my conspiracy cap on it’s being done on purpose to destroy any other avenue of public discourse and control every single thing people see, think and now think that’s what other people must be thinking too. It’s passively establishing and enforcing information control and conformity to ideals. There’s a ton of 70s and 80s movies about this exact type of dystopia being established. Recommend everyone give Colossus: The Forbin Project a watch were like a stones throw from losing control.
I’m not a fan of reddit. For me it was always a small group of Admins that imposed their control over everyone including the unpaid mods of groups. I’ve written about this before, but the other thing about reddit is what seems to be their ever changing reasons for banning people. And not just a ban for a week but permanent site wide bans. What I really object to is when a social media platform sells itself as politically neutral but really isn’t. There are Trump loyalist groups like patriots win and truth social that tell you exactly what they are. If you dare say anything negative about Trump you are banned forever. And that’s OK because you wouldn’t want to go there and at least they are telling you upfront what their deal is.
If Lemmy has this, I haven’t found it. But there should be a group for political discussion without labels. Regardless of your politics it is illogical to always defend “your tribe” since both sides do and say dumb stuff. The big secret is most people are not actually on the left or right. They are just living their lives trying to get by.
I also will never understand the name calling. If you have a different opinion it’s easy enough to have a civil discussion realizing that the other person just has a different point of view. That doesn’t make them a bad person.
Many years ago Saturday Night Live made fun of this whole name calling thing. Each week there would be a right vs. left debate of an issue. And the guy on the right always began his rebuttal this way https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYRVUqNHD9U
So what we all laughed at then is now far to common and accepted today
It’s been like that since 2016. You’re saying it’s gotten worse? Oh well.
Besides. Belligerent conservatives have always been a core component of reddit. Doesn’t anyone remember much the left leaning atheism type of users were ridiculed. What I find more interesting than anything is how everyone even leftists accept the default view that reddit is center to left. While everything right leaning is a minority and an aberration. They’re not seen as actual reddit for some reason. Spoken of as if conservatives are outsiders. It’s bizarre. Old reddits favorite politician was Ron Paul. They were a bunch of Ayn Rand loving pseuds. How the hell does anyone get the remote idea that reddit is historically anything but at least right of center.
By the way Musk bots have been on reddit for a long time. Once upon a time the mods of /r/technology tried to limit the amount of musk posts on that subreddit. Otherwise they would be flooding the top posts of the subreddit all the time. The musk bots caused quite a scene. I think it led to that subreddit getting removed as a default. I might be remembering wrong though.
I’m thinking bots/troll farms could have something to do with it. I’m on .ee, and we federate with .ml. I’ve been on Lemmy for about two years and just saw the first post I ever felt the need to report, had huge nazi energy against trans people on fucking .ml. That suggests to me that it was either a deliberate troll or someone didn’t know what the fuck they were doing.
It got handled promptly, btw, good job mod team!
It was probably someone who just signed up for the first instance they could find
.ml gets specifically targeted on account of the, you know, commieism
If reactionary stuff is the latest rage and all the progeessives are leaving the site, it’s no wonder that the reddit demographic is turning conservative.
I’ve noticed:
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r/news and r/worldnews hijacked by conservative zionist mods.
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r/pics locking many political anti-maga comment threads with hardly anything there and never an explanation for transparency.
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r/conservative feels like it’s being artificially amplified.
r/news and r/worldnews hijacked by conservative zionist mods.
correction: USA hijacked by conservative zionists
r/pics is absolutely bonkers. Not only it’s mostly not about the general pics and it’s mostly politics, but the pics are ALL anti-trump, anti-Elon etc. It’s supposed to be for pics and not a leftist political echo-chamber for showing how much they hate Trump and Elon. It’s so crazy.
Thats what some people need to learn. A street is for driving, yet it can be occupied to protest fascism. A factory is for producing stuff, yet can be occupied for protesting fascism (and other things). Thats what we‘re doing all around the world now and so help us science, we wont stop until the fascists fuck off.
IMO yall just make r/pics and the rest of the political echo-chamber subreddits look bad. People want pics and not fucking politics when there go to r/pics! If it was something like r/politicspics, I’d get it. But there people are literally drowning actual pics with leftist propaganda. Just imagine how you would feel if r/pics was posting only pro-Trump and pro-Elon pics. You would be outraged and realize how dumb it is that 90% of pics are politics on there. It’s one of the most disgusting subreddits by far (IMO).
You‘re not getting the point.
If the current trajectory continues, you will still be able to continue posting to r/pics, but only as long and you dont offend the government. As long as you arent a person deemed unfit for the country (think minorities).
We‘re all heading to full blown fascist autocracy, worldwide. And those protesting it dont give a shit if you think „leftism“ looks bad. You‘re talking about non-fascism btw. Maybe start reading about fascism in history. It always „looked good“, but its horrendous behind closed doors.
We‘re not going to accept this, are you?
Places are already being occupied. Soon people will start disrupting the economy. Economic blackout day is being planned on feb 23, here‘s some info about it: https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220000520.
After that, there will ne strikes, your trash will fill up, electricity will go out. We will ruin the whole system until we can eject the fascists from our governments. If that means war, so be it.
Economic blackout day is being planned on feb 23, here‘s some info about it: https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220000520
Friendly reminder that most don’t know that exists
Correct. I‘m doing my duty. Everyone else feel free to share it.
lol, ok buddy. gl luck with your lil project n shit.
Hahaha „little project“ yeah, right. You will think of us when you cant watch tv anymore.
You also get a free ban from my instance bc i dont provide my platform to fascist scum.
If you think Trump/Elon/republicans will cause television to not function - you must be batshit psychotic. Also, who tf said I’m a fascist? You are assuming shit without substance. I dislike fascism very much. Also, I don’t give a flying fuck about any instance that bans people for calling out people who litter r/pics with mostly political pics.
Link you put says Feb 28 as did other things I saw. I imagine some people might just read your comment and not click the link so you might want to edit your comment
Thank you. I did that
Not as disgusting as this community tho, lol. Keep downvoting, yall know I’m spitting truth.
Nah r/pics is pics and pics of anything are permitted there.
Naturally it represents the zeitgeist and what is on the collection of people’s minds who frequent that sub will determine the content.
Beggars can’t be choosers. If you want more specific rules, then find more niche subs. Simple as that.
Alternatively, don’t shove fascists down our throats and this wouldn’t happen.
Don’t you think r/pics should mainly contain general pics instead of being 90% Trump/Elon hating pics? They might as well rebrand themselves to r/politicspics
Honestly? If I had it my way, there would be a DEFCON 5 Alert across every single subreddit in solidarity with the literal fucking crisis that is happening right now. This extends well beyond how much I care about some subreddit and how randomized the platter of pics are. At the end of the day, you can’t “force” generality in a sub with loose rules on submissions; hell I think they even allow people to filter them as they’re tagged as political to begin with.
“literal fucking crisis” ok bud lmao
lol gtfo bootlicking simp. You exemplify why Trump said he loves the poorly educated, bud.
ok buddy lol
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I dont know shit about reddit except what this community says. I would assume they have relaxed moderation against conservative viewpoints (likely in an attempt to suck the dick of the current government).
Honestly I’m celebrating reddit becoming shitter and shitter it makes federation look like a better option.
I dunno. I don’t really ‘feel’ Reddit being much different to 2023. Well, beside from some of my favourite niche subs not being the same because the mods felt strongly about the API protests.
There was r/TheDonald before, too. That was much worse than r/conservative, I’d say. And the big general bullshit subreddits were filled to the brim with nonsense before 2023 as well…
I’m glad to have Lemmy as an alternative, though.
I have tried avoiding reddit as much as possible. I only browse a few subs that are highly specific with their RSS feeds, so I avoid the slop that is the rest of that site
reddit is promoting divisive conservative rhetoric? that could just be conservatives being conservatives. this is a moment of strength for them and their cause. they could be rallying in awe of what is taking place-- you don’t have to like it but maybe stop trying to push everything you don’t like or agree with out of every corner of the internet and learn to promote your own rhetoric better. it probably didn’t occur to you that they (conservatives) do make up a large percentage of the population of this country.
Don’t give these fuckers an inch. They will take a mile and be shitting all over you before you know it.
He is “these fuckers”
I wouldn’t bother taking anyone who uses “this country” unqualified on the Internet seriously. Even if they are being serious.
I’d agree, but I went to check reddit the other day and a post from r/conservative bitching about “leftists” was on the front page with 400 upvotes surrounded posts with thousands of more votes. Kept scrolling and more of them were showing up. I know reddit is bad, but I never used to see this many ragebait posts on the front page.
And another fascist! Having a run today. See ya.
^ ladies and gentlemen, this is normal-- why is this normal?