Now Reddit’s not just promoting ragebait and AI generated stories, but divisive conservative rhetoric. Anyone else notice the non-political subreddits spontaneously hosting a population of chuds and propagandists where a few weeks ago they weren’t tolerated?
Has reddit changed the algorithm? Has some nation begun its bot operation? Has reddit deployed bots at musk’s behest? Has twitter sent its worst users to brigade? (All of twitter’s users are its worst users) I don’t know, but the effect is striking. All I’m certain about is that I’m avoiding reddit even harder now.
reddit is promoting divisive conservative rhetoric? that could just be conservatives being conservatives. this is a moment of strength for them and their cause. they could be rallying in awe of what is taking place-- you don’t have to like it but maybe stop trying to push everything you don’t like or agree with out of every corner of the internet and learn to promote your own rhetoric better. it probably didn’t occur to you that they (conservatives) do make up a large percentage of the population of this country.
Don’t give these fuckers an inch. They will take a mile and be shitting all over you before you know it.
I wouldn’t bother taking anyone who uses “this country” unqualified on the Internet seriously. Even if they are being serious.
I’d agree, but I went to check reddit the other day and a post from r/conservative bitching about “leftists” was on the front page with 400 upvotes surrounded posts with thousands of more votes. Kept scrolling and more of them were showing up. I know reddit is bad, but I never used to see this many ragebait posts on the front page.