/r/Conservative is hitting the front page almost every day now...with (relatively) low upvotes. : reddit

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/r/Conservative is hitting the front page almost every day now...with (relatively) low upvotes. (lemmy.world)

submitted 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) by mesamunefire to c/reddit

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I wish we could see up/downvotes like in the past. I think reddit may be artificially boosting some posts into the front page. You can see in the screenshot it has very little upvotes (or older) compared to the other top 4 posts.

I have no evidence other than noticing right after the election, /r/conservative seems to be hitting the front page every day. But I remember before the election, it only hit the front page once in a blue moon or so. Is this just me? Am I the only one noticing this?

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

You're better than this conspiracy crap.

They populate the front page based on views, not votes. People (like you for instance, and possibly now several people reading this thread) are increasingly visiting r/conservative right now.

[–] Cornelius_Wangenheim 2 points 1 hour ago

I'm pretty sure the reddit algorithm tailors itself to your behavior. If you go to or click on a post from a certain sub, it'll increase how often it shows up in your feed. Downvote and it'll decrease how often it shows up. Also, it pushes posts that have a high upvote count compared to baseline for that sub instead of purely on upvote count.

[–] GreenKnight23 15 points 3 hours ago

I have a Reddit account. I strictly use it for....science. that's all I have had in my feed. 100% science every single day for years.

now, I see political posts, conservative bullshit, etc.

1000001137

[–] [email protected] 49 points 6 hours ago

It's not just you. There is a coordinated effort from Big Tech to effectively take over the US Govt.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)

I mean, r/movies is trending higher with even less votes.

And the r/conservative post has 6000 comments like the top post, while the rest are only 4000.

Sounds to me like just another algorithm than a push towards conservatism.

Controversial post easily make front page for a while now.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 hours ago

I always hated that reddit goes for roller coaste algorithim, you cant get max dopamine youll be satisfied and youll leave, instead you need the highs and lows from controversy to maximize the amount of ads we see, I was so over it when ads started showing up inbetween comments

[–] [email protected] 139 points 10 hours ago (7 children)

6k comments, flaired users only? Sus.

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

Lmao dude have you ever actually looked at the restrictions on the vast majority of the popular posts on /r/conservative? It’s honestly comical. They’re super locked down.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 hours ago

Reeks of LLM spam

[–] [email protected] 21 points 8 hours ago

The flaired thing always made me laugh. Biggest babies out there. Just think of that Kyle kid crying in court

[–] expatriado 37 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (2 children)

i don't miss those +1k comment threads, scrolling them gets annoying, also, i recused from commenting if there was already +150, otherwise was like talking to the void

[–] mesamunefire 25 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

Its interesting that on lemmy almost everyone gets some kind of upvote/downvote (interaction) whereas on reddit and other sites, you either get viral success or...nothing. No upvotes/downvotes no interactions. My theory is the algorithm + number of people de-humanizes the act of communication in such large communities.

[–] expatriado 9 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

i used to sort by r/new for years, i learned what mods liked to take down, so i didn't waste time on those post, then make some funny/attempt-to-clever comment and watched raise to the front page as top comment, it was like playing a video game for me

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 hours ago

OMG I did the same thing too... but the funny/sad thing was that I started doing those "typical reddit" comments that weren't really insightful but got lots of upvotes. Then when I came here to Lemmy I had to stop myself from making those kinds of comments.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 hours ago

Human to me means small groups and being heard by other humans. I hope Lemmy doesn't hyper-centralize.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 hours ago (4 children)

I enjoyed the void, commenting into the void was my favorite pastime til I did it on an alt and got autopermbanned, some thread with thousands of comments and it instabanned all my alts and main account

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

Reddit doesn't remove removed commented from the count.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago

I mean if they did then most conservative posts would have like 5 comments

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[–] danc4498 2 points 7 hours ago

It always annoyed me when a post reached the front page and they limited who was allowed to comment on it. I usually didn’t even know what sub I was in until after I typed my comment and clicked submit. Followed by auto mod deleting my post.

I forgot how much I hated that about Reddit. Good riddance.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 hours ago (15 children)

It’s where all the ML Wumao flocked. They killed the Democratic Party, now they’re going after the republicans. They don’t care about Gaza, it’s all about starting an American civil war.

[–] NOT_RICK 8 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

I feel like the Democratic Party did a lot of this to themselves. They’ve been stepping on rakes for a while now.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

I can’t argue with that. But the genocide Joe chant spread far and wide, meanwhile the creators of it knew very well what a Trump win would accomplish.

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[–] [email protected] 62 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (5 children)

I don't notice anything on Reddit because I never go there anymore. I swear some of y'all treating Reddit like that ex you never shut up about and keep stalking every five minutes to check if their life turned out better than yours.

Edit: My bad guys. Didn't pay attention to what community this post was in.

[–] mesamunefire 53 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Not saying your wrong lol. But this is the /c/reddit community. We are not going to go and post on reddit about this (well not anymore). And my local community is not going to remove themselves on reddit unless something pretty horrific happens. I like fediverse more (so im supporting that).

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

Yeah well, I am here because this shit hit our front page. 🤷‍♂️

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Can't you block communities on Fedia?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago

You ain't tho haha...

We would hate to see her do her best with a trump voter

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

Does it also count if you don't stalk your ex yourself but do stalk a community dedicated to stalking that exact same ex?

I like to hear the shit that goes down there (and other sites) for multiple reasons.

so i can discuss these ongoing enshitification with friends i know still frequent it and are not on the fediverse.
to archive/understand/study the dynamics of enshitificication/collapse/fascist momentum so i may learn how to defend against those and if successful educate others.
to deliver dopamine to my brain by feeding the inbuild superiority complex within my human mind. Most of us enjoy seeing our choices redeemed. Shallow and primitive yes but so is arguable 90% of social media.

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

They are using that sub to split reddit hive mind lol

Same way they used bootlicker to split Luigi sentiment.

It ain't working haha

[–] [email protected] 34 points 10 hours ago (4 children)

Exposure does have impact, don’t kid yourself. There’s a reason ads work the way they are.

[–] Xanthobilly 4 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

It also gives people a false sense of consensus and creates artificial peer pressure.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 hours ago

No also. That’s just how it works.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 hours ago

You ain't wrong... A reminder to stay vigilant

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (2 children)

Fwiw, if you use old reddit, posts have an upvote percentage (not counting any vote fuzzing). To calculate number of downvotes:

NetScore / upvote% - NetScore.

[–] mesamunefire 12 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

Unfortunately reddit has fuzzed their up/downvotes for many years now. So every reload is going to get different numbers.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago

I think they have upped the amount of fuzzing more recently too.

[–] Mickey7 5 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

this post was submitted on 05 Feb 2025 9,822 points (83% upvoted)

This is what the percentage is for this post. Posting this in case anyone is curious as to the percentage in agreement. Reddit groups that have a "flair" policy do not stop you from up or down voting a post.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 hours ago

Reaction bait

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 hours ago

Definitely noticed this, commenting to argue got me banned off some subs that assume commenters are conservative, reddit is slowly on its way out

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Reason i went to Redit Sync because you could bloke subs and individuals or even key words. Life was more enjoyable when you could block the Leonard or conservatives.

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