Probably because it is the only content allowed now.
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I'm astonished how quickly Reddit has rotted in the one year I quit.
it actually accelerated after trump won, from there we saw ban wave after ban wave that was barely targetting misinformation trolls. when i went on another forum after my early FEBURARY BAN, people recorded 3 ban waves by that time, and the midst of a 4th one, i think the luigi, upvoting is the 5th one so far.
there was nother user on the forum that recorded the statistics, there was massive surge of shadowbannings on the week i was permabanned. it is statistically relevant since theses users are the ones have 100s too thousands of accts getting shadowbanned.(yes they use it to promote advertisements)
No, I haven't. Because I no longer go on Reddit.
This is the way.
Fuck Reddit. Lemmy is worlds better outside of missing a few niche communities
Let’s make some lemmy servers for those niche communities then
I don’t know about Reddit as a whole but the subreddit for my country has not only been flooded with far right content, there has been a hostile takeover of the mod team. All of the sensible and balanced mods were forced out and replaced by fascist lunatics.
The r/Unitedkingdom subreddit seems to be in the process of being taken over. Constant posts about crimes that brown immigrants commit with the same type of comments. It seems like one half of the sub notice and keep calling it out but another cohort keep posting and commenting anti immigration rhetoric. Said posts get upvoted very quickly too.
It's a stark contrast to how it was 5 or 10 years ago.
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Sure I have. I've also noticed an uptick in far-right users reporting accounts to get them suspended and banned. For people who jump so readily to calling their ideological opponents snowflakes, they're remarkably quick to run to Mods, who're disappointingly happy to accommodate fasch rhetoric.
thats because the mods are right wingers themselves or in cahoots with reddit admins. at least 92 mods control 500+subs, and you can guess where they have thier hands in. these power/supermods, are probably right wing themselves and speak with reddit admins on the regular.
Maybe also has something to do with the uptick of banning left leaning people talking about the damage Trump and Musk are doing? There have been a TON of people here saying their 10+ year old accounts have been banned.
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At the risk of going against the flow here....no?
I keep seeing Lemmy posts talking about how Reddit is going hard fascist...but half the posts on /r/all are about Trump being a rapist, or celebrating CyberTruck arson, or Luigi memes, etc.
I deleted my Reddit account during the third-party app bullshit and exclusively view it from the old site or OpenArtemis, so I'm not exactly going to defend them, but it isn't nearly as bad as people on here claim it is.
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I'm one week reddit free after 2 bans. I honestly don't miss it. Recently it's been all right-wing propaganda and conspiracies, getting banned for innocuous things, and general hate towards other users. That platform is dying fast. Here's to Lemmy supremacy! 🥂
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Lately?
My sentiments exactly. Been an increasing problem over there since 2016 that I noticed but I'm sure there was this bullshittery there before and I just wasn't in the subreddits where it festered.
They're getting a lot of pressure from the Trump administration to clamp down on leftist content and ease regulations on right wing stuff
this is one part, but i think its mostly because of ad revenue, right wing content drives traffic to the site, it works for Youtube/facebook.
Crazy that that's the case considering how bad it tends to be for advertisers. But I don't doubt that's involved too. Especially when the cultural focus of the country now is to rid itself of all forms of equity
as long as people against right wingers respond to them, its a never ending cycle
Yeah, I don't think it's an uptick of Russians and right wingers so much as a downtick in sane and leftist comments.
yup, also significant astroturfing from right wing shills.
I don't buy the whole Russia thing because it takes the burden of guilt off of the admin and makes them look like pawns. No, the admin would be this way regardless of Russia. The Russia connection is a symptom of MAGA, not the cause.
This is naive. Russia has been waging psychological warfare on us for literally decades. They are open about this. They've written books about it. It is LITERALLY Russian military doctrine.
I am NOT advocating for marching on Moscow. But to ignore the psychological warfare that was amplified by, yes willing conspirators which does indicate we DO have a root problem here too, is to ignore the circumstances that brought us here.
We are only here because of the combination of old-school crazies in the Heritage Foundation controlling Fox News/trad. media and our 4chan billionaires pushing all sorts of propaganda from the depths of the internet & 4chan, which is pretty much all Russian/chinese/iranian propaganda aimed at destabilizing trust within the west.
Sure people are stupid and like conspiracies
but the conspiracy sphere is EXACTLY a target of Russian propaganda because the user base already distrusts the government and they're a user base that's willing to push their beliefs onto others if you can convince them.... see QANON. Qanon has deep ties to both Russia AND to the tech bros, namely Thiel and Musk.
This is only possible because of the MARRIAGE OF THESE IDEAS. They are equally to blame. We are at war with Russia as much as we are at war with our own traitorous billionaires.
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How do you tell the difference between Russian propaganda and right wing American propaganda?
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Rather than an uptick of far-right, more like a downtick of genuine sensible people in contrast to them.
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Who’s on Reddit?
Apparently far-right and russian people/bots.
WTF is Reddit?
Seriously though get off that site, it's not good for you.
No longer on Reddit. That’s why I’m here. Kept getting banned because, “who knows”?
"Why am I banned?"
silence
It's everywhere. I'm guessing they have a lot extra free money to spend on propaganda now that they allies with the US.
I'm just seeing a lot of sanitation of reddit. Must be making it advertiser friendly or kissing up to the admin.
Reddit didn't start pushing it, it just stopped fighting it.
They lost a lot of human users and moderators over the last few years (during the API changes, for example) and their place was filled with "power mods" who run multiple large subreddits.
The moderator:user ratio has gone way down and so the people who game social media to push their messaging (nation states interested in disrupting the US) are essentially unchecked.
Now, instead of dumb bots that just copy/paste comments we have LLM-enabled 'users' (or even entire subreddits) that only exist to amplify these messages and manipulate the karma system to suppress opposition.
You don't need to be a moderator if you can just use your network of hundreds of thousands of bots to downvote people out of the conversation or to boost articles to the front page.
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Reddit has been protecting russian bot farms for almost a decade now.
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The russian propagandist has no shame these days. They openly flaunt their nationality and their influence over US media. It's shameful and americans should ostracize these people. They are all soo scared of brown people voting in their election but give no shits when it comes to russians, a foreign adversary, pushing their agenda through propagandizing americans.
An uptick? Nah, it's always been that way.
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