reddit suppresses leftist message, outside of center right. now it allows more astroturfing from the right through israel and russia. and were not talking about the extremes like tankies.
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A friend of mine always says "Averages are a poor measure of a population. For example: I have more than the average number of legs for a human."
Yes. Like extremely
Depends, the average .world user is roughly equivalent to the average Reddit user. However I would say the average blahaj or db0 user is significantly further left.
Yeah the average blahaj user believes trans rights are human rights and that's too much for some communities to handle
Ikr, some communities really do be saying "erm akshurally we need to compromise". Mfr what? These are my basic human rights
world is probably the ones that were on political or news subs that got banned or "astroturfed" and came to worlds to do the same.
Before or after reddit started capitulating to fascists and mass bans?
capitulated to MUSK like 2 times, which resulted in 2 massive ban waves. earlier in the year. we also know spez loves MUSk and the gop.
Yes. The average reddit user NOW is further right than the average reddit user before the start of lemmy. Different people. The most left ones are with lemmy now.
reddit heavily allows astroturfing and banning from the "left" more than the right.
I don’t think Lemmy is large enough to have had a noticeable impact on the makeup of Reddit.
I don’t think Lemmy is large enough to have had a noticeable impact on the makeup of Reddit.
I would not say that it is only lemmy. Reddit itself has changed, and that's why I think there are different people there.
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When I stooped to check out the r/conservative subreddit after Kirk's murder, it amused me how many of it's denizens were bemoaning how bad 'redditors' were, as if they weren't also on reddit.
I don't go to reddit very much any more. 'Tis a silly place.
and they are also in the most exclusive echo chamber on reddit too. they tried to branch out with disengenious "both sides " subs, but i dont think it can match r/conservative and r/conspiracy, since they are the cesspools for other the banned right wing subs. i have never seen an exclusive "left leaning sub" on the site, that wasnt astroturfed by right wingers. city/states specific subs are taken over by right wingers or tankies to the specific location.(tankies as in supporting the way the govt in that city is behaviing)
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Yes. Even putting aside what enshittification has done to the userbase in recent years, Reddit has always skewed Democrat, Fediverse skews leftist.
enshittification as in promoting more AI bots, and propaganda. consistent effort to curb the propaganda or right wing harmful comments have been met with significant resistance. yea reddit did do these regular purges to eliminate bots, but they seemed to have done less or stopped doing it altogether. instead thier purges were going after the lowest hanging fruits.
OF accounts, IRL users like us, the ones that drop links to thier businesses.
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The average reddit user is a bot
u/WordWord_1234 Usernames are sus af fuck
Accounts whose profile page have urls starting with reddit.com/u are also sus.
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I just got banned for 7 days from Reddit for "threatening violence" for saying the Trump administration deserves the death penalty (which is an actual thing that exists legally in the US) and that the GOP should be dissolved.
A few days ago, an AskReddit thread led me to a group where men were promoting rape and violence against women. Reddit did not ban that.
You tell me.
EDIT: Something funny from the message they sent me: "Reddit is a place for creating community and belonging, not for threatening violence against people or animals." I wish they'd clarify whether it was people or animals that I threatened. It continues "Any communities or people that threaten violence towards an individual, group, animals, or place will be banned." Not the one where a bunch of dudes were promoting rape, though.
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The average Reddit user only exists on a server farm these days
Like, if I take a single user that I consider to exemplify each? Yes, the lemming will be left, socially and economically, of the redditor.
If we take a statistical average of each? The lemmy average will be screamingly farther left of the reddit average.
If we exclude bots and take the averages of only human users of each? Farther apart than the first but not nearly as far apart as the the second.
What am I basing this on? Multiple years of modding one of the larger not-explicity-political subs and also two explicitly political subs. So, vibes, basically, but lots of them over a long time.
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Further weird, yes.
Yes
Well since reddit pretends to be far right (and full of bots which is another topic but also renders reddit fake & useless), and most of us are here because Reddit was intolerant of our defiance to adhere to its right-wingedness, yeah I'd say fediverse is left. We're free people who refuse to have our free-thinking & free speech squashed.
reddits trying to replace it with AI bots, much like facebook is right now. a hybrid child of facebook and Xitter.
Reddit is main-stream, so should be (and is) mostly centered. Lemmy is more niche and while it has some far right people, it overall leans left.
Lemmy is more niche and ... overall leans left.
Like Reddit used to be in the good days.
that was prior to trumps 1st term, remember the subreddit apocalypse they started banning alot of subs that were "problematic", it was just placating the GOP and trump who are obsessed with online censorhsip at a time, which was convenient distraction from thier "1st tax cuts". thats when people were getting significant amount of bans around that time. i was there when r/conspiracy wasnt even political, just your usual conspiracies that have been talked about, that doesnt involved trump, or dems.
before the anti-vax madness of covid, that sub pre-pandemic allowed you to somewhat convince people who are hesitant of vaccines.
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I don’t know about the average user, but the average commenter - almost definitely, yes. Making any kind of centrist or right-leaning noises here gets you mobbed instantly, so most people just don’t bother. Whether that reflects the actual majority or just a loud minority remains unclear.
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