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I'm not much of a reddit defender as i pretty much left this place same time as everybody else. However there's always been a very clear trend in this kind of subreddits. Places like "noahgettheboat" or "iamapieceofshit" or "thatsinsane" systematically attract the worst kind of misanthropic low-lifes. People will see the most abject violence and laugh "haha he fucked around and found out" and of course this makes the most fascistic types feel at home.
I don't think they are representative of the overall slant of the community. Most places are progressive by default.
Reddit is corporate, of course the FP will be sanitized. But the real disgusting part are the obscure or small subreddits.
I've seen comments praise Europa as a "documentary" when it is just neo nazi propaganda. Lemmy has shortcomings but at least I can call this out without being downvoted to obscurity (TBF my main comment is pretty controversial but I think that's just because how I worded it)
That's why it's important to heavily curate your corporate social media feed. If you see a community where this kind of comments are heavily upvoted just hide it and move on, there's not that many and most of the niche interests are still relatively clean places.