Relatively neutral subs like r/publicfreakout are now packed with chuds and the only left-leaning subs that survived the purge have tons of libs and/or very little activity. I know reddit always sucked but it seems to have gotten much worse.
After the purge it seems like the popular tab is nothing but reactionary takes and sentimentality. It’s basically become Facebook
Yeah Spez is definitely to blame for this, I was just being somewhat sarcastic there.
Publicfreakout was never really neutral
Those rightists on Reddit have always been there, they just stay away from r/politics and so on because they're outnumbered--recent events have made them less cautious, however
No kidding. It's not that chuds took over subs like r/cringe, it's that they were inherently based on poorshaming and smug arrogance from the beginning.
Personally it seems like most post are filled with centrist with certain post being brigaded with far right chuds. It definitely seems like more post have been filled with chuds recently
I've noticed the same. Any sub that isn't explicitly a leftist space seems to be overtly hostile to any meaningfully divergent opinion from the left now. I never had as much of a problem with reddit as a lot of people do, or maybe I was just more willing to curate my feed to avoid the worst of it, but my sense is that the big ban drove out a lot of leftists while doing little to discourage chuds.
It's bittersweet. On the one hand, I like reddit as a content aggregator, and sometimes as a discussion platform where the discussion was tolerable. On the other hand, it's never been that good, and it would be nice to have an excuse to log off and not go back.
I logged off, blacklisted the site, and deleted RIF from my phone last night and I hope I never go back. All my homies hate reddit.
I just wish there was another content aggregator that worked as well as reddit. Chaopochat is good for some news, and some opinions, but dedicated communities about niche topics isn't really gonna happen here unless this place grows to a million+ daily users
My comments sharing a link to a book about Bill Gates got removed by /r/insanepeoplefacebook automod yesterday. It was weird.
Seriously though, is that book worth reading for someone who already doesn't like Bill Gates?
That's their MO. They don't have to worry about their ideas being "valid" or "correct," all they have to do is be hostile for its own sake and drive moderates out of public spaces, leaving only the twisted reactionaries who fawn over dominance and cruelty as much as they do.
Any sub that isn’t explicitly a leftist space seems to be overtly hostile to any meaningfully divergent opinion from the left now.
Which is funny because they still concern troll about "the narrative" being biased against right wing opinions.
i've been on that trash site for 10+ years and i regret to say it's always been this way; i've just grown more left wing so i am more aware of the fuckery.
I agree. Also, before this summer, whenever I felt inundated with shitty takes, I'd just go on our sub to post and scroll, which is no longer an option
Eh, I think there's some truth to it, it does seem that the more mainstream subs have moved a lot further to the right since the purge from what I've seen 🤷♂️
I kinda disagree. Places like /r/worldnews actually has some people refuting the Radio Free Asia propaganda posted daily. I've never seen that before. /r/GenZedong is also very good at brigading threads and taking over niche subs (/r/banvideogames).
I think instead of liberalism vs slightly more right liberalism there are actual threads full of capitalism vs anticapitalism debates. Something that wasnt too prevalent on reddit years ago.
It's much more of a mixed bag these days... I think the purge totally fucked the balance of things though.
2015-early 2016 was crazy in terms of how hard right reddit shfited, I wonder how 2020 stacks up to that, to be honest I still think late 2015 was way worse
for sure, the whole ellen pao related misogyny and fallout from the gamergate bullshit from incels was absolutely batshit insane
y'all remember the comments on r/worldnews? Around 2015-early 2016 they were fucking horrifying. I remember pretty much every article describing a tragedy having comments being filled with bloodlust and people posting about "failed integration" due to "cultural differences". Those same differences were never ever ever expunded upon, and it was just mostly concluded that "those people" were inferior for some odd reason.
the charlie hebdo shooting along with the rise of pewdiepie really pushed a lot of people on the cusp of fash tendencies to being full blown ethnostate boosters. it was insane.
But I was told fascists aren't emboldened under Trump :shocked-pikachu:
(Halfway joke here, real answer is the purge is working as intended)
I've also noticed an improvement in r/lostgeneration as well as r/aboringdystopia. Never been to r/collapse but it may be worth checking out.
Also to piggy back off this, r/publicfreakout can't be any worse than what it was can it? All the super chuds got purged so bad they threw a hissy fit and created r/actualpublicfreakout so they could accomplish the goal they had all along of making fun of exclusively POC being trashy. Going off of that, while you definitely couldn't call publicfreakout good, I don't think you can say it's getting worse either.
I was recently on collapse and was surprised at how not bad it was. Only other sub I go to is /r/kitchenconfidential.
The Brazillian JiuJitsu sub is hilariously left wing, calling for literal guillotines at times. Not something I expected from the sport that blessed us with Renzo Gracie and Eddie Bravo.
Believe it or not, but out of all the mainstream-ish subs that I enjoy browsing on that shithole of a website, r/OkayBuddyR*tard has been the one most open towards leftist ideology and opposed towards fascist shit. Really strange tbh
Seems about the same to me. I post in lots of sports subs and obviously NBA is more left than the rest, but even in MLB and NFL they have class analysis and the majority support Kaepernick and shit like that. r/politics is still a chum-in-the-water feeding frenzy for Correct The Record astroturfing. And then you'll encounter random threads of straight revolutionary shit in r/pics or r/funny or whatever. I mean look at r/television go on chapo when networks were scrubbing blackface from past episodes of famous shows: https://i.imgur.com/yIcnbsV.png
idk, r/DankLeft, r/GenZeDong, r/GenZommunist are okay. I feel like I stumble on a new leftist meme sub every day.
Yes but also I see a bit more left/revolutionary posting than before in sports subs/TIL/etc. Though by and large they are reactionary/liberal, especially TIL. Such an insidious sub.
