Anecdotally, about three years ago is when I started to pick up on it.
this post was submitted on 03 May 2024
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It's so wild to me that the same people who espouse the second amendment to the constitution completely ignore the first part, where freedom of speech and freedom of assembly are.
If you love the constitution so much, why aren't you supporting those who are actually exercising their rights?
Reddit still trends liberal overall, but anti-police sentiment has been on a decline for awhile. To me, it feels like the anti-establishment crowd basically died out completely over the pandemic. Reddit also tends to trend anti-hamas and pro-israel, the newer users don't really understand that you can be against both so if it hurts the one they don't like, it has to be good.
Probably just your average Russian Trolls/AI bots. May I suggest simply just not subscibing or browsing political/news subreddits/communities? You're ragebaiting yourself for no reason. Just ignore those areas of the Internet. Your mental health will thank you.
This is the sure-fire solution. Before I left Reddit when the API bs went down (RIP RIF), I had already filtered out all the popular and simipopular political and adjacent subs. It change my Reddit experience and overall frustration levels immediately and all for the better. I still got the news I wanted here and there but without that dumbass antagonistic shithole that's the comments section. Anyway, good riddance, Reddit.
Lemmy has the same doomscrolling ragebait political bullshit though. So make sure to hide those here too.
Yup, I've seen enough posts where bots are clearly reposting (huge) comment chains from older posts to know the place is absolutely crawling with them
Subreddit Simulator wasn't an experiment, it was a proof-of-concept.
When people are scared or worried, they tend to move towards conservatism.
And people are worried a lot about their finances.
I would say this is just AIPAC astroturfing.
The record just wasn't correct
'Twas the added limitation of the Public Reddit API. Basically, everyone good left and everyone crappy is staying.
I think reddit is Usally far left ngl (if that's a word) I never really seen racism happening it just gets deleted
I remember someone on reddit saying the n slur to me I reported him and reddit deleted the account (idk?)
ever since occupy wallstreet scared the elites, reddit and other social media had a target on its back. Even 4chan. Itsbombarded by noise now.
Right around the time America turned fascist?