1% of Reddit’s political contributions went straight into the Republican Party. It will only get worse from here.
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.
“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 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.
