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.
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.
“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.
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.
That’s why you should be absent from reddit in the first place. Lp
Reddit is the past.
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.
It’s been that way unfortunately.
Not the first time, same thing happened in 2016
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?
This unfortunately
I’m on Reddit way less than I use to
There are many legitimate reasons to not use Reddit
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.
