Historically, I’ve perceived Reddit as slightly left leaning, with strong pockets of conservatives. Recently though, a vast majority of comment sections seem to excuse violence, such as in this thread (TW: police brutality), where people say things like

TW: Supporting violence

The students didn’t hurt the bullets, right?

They paid to learn so… You go learn today

Um…good?

And I’m seriously wondering when Reddit got so bad that the hivemind supports calls for violence. Are these humans? Are they bots? Why does reddit allow this conduct?

    • alvvayson@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      2 months ago

      The last natural, human, popular subreddit to arise on reddit was r/antiwork

      After that, the site got swarmed by bots and censorship.

      If you try and post something even remotely progressive in a popular subreddit, it will get deleted and you will probably get banned.

    • Zaktor@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Yeah, last time I went back to survey the landscape the more anticorporate/progressive subs I knew were noticeably diminished, while subs that get off on the futility of activism and immutability of power structures were going strong.