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[–] scp_1404 45 points 1 year ago (4 children)

The alt-right is having a great time right now on Reddit. Tons of their posts from r/conservative on the front page.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago

Yes I went there for a peek and it's so angry. Compared to the positive vibe here, reddit felt oppressive. I'm not going back. Let it simmer and boil. I love this place. It's so refreshing at lemmy. Such a positive vibe. Like the internet was before it all became centralised. Lemmy is the real Web 3.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well, that demographic is always great for their advertiser acquisition goal

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Right? Nothing like a festering pile of bigotry & ignorance to get the advertisers signing up.

[–] Earthwormjim91 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You joke but it’s not exactly wrong.

People like that love to buy dumb shit. After a time Reddit will be nothing but my pillow, t shirt companies, colonial penn life insurance, and reverse mortgage ads.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

True, but they're not exactly swimming in disposable income, usually. Trump's base is mostly non-college-educated whites. Not exactly a rich vein to mine.

[–] Earthwormjim91 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

True, but that’s the same base for the mega churches, and those fucks aren’t hurting for private jets.

Trump raises a few million bucks every time he tells his supporters to donate. A LOT of companies want in on that

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

True enough. As the saying goes, no one ever went broke underestimating the American consumer. Or something along those lines.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

r/Canada was taken over by alt-right a long time ago. r/OnGuardForThee had to be made in response to that. I feel like Reddit in general is going that direction. The sheer volume of bot activity on most major subreddits is insane.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

So its like Twitter?