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.

  • conicalscientist@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    1
    ·
    edit-2
    10 months ago

    It’s been like that since 2016. You’re saying it’s gotten worse? Oh well.

    Besides. Belligerent conservatives have always been a core component of reddit. Doesn’t anyone remember much the left leaning atheism type of users were ridiculed. What I find more interesting than anything is how everyone even leftists accept the default view that reddit is center to left. While everything right leaning is a minority and an aberration. They’re not seen as actual reddit for some reason. Spoken of as if conservatives are outsiders. It’s bizarre. Old reddits favorite politician was Ron Paul. They were a bunch of Ayn Rand loving pseuds. How the hell does anyone get the remote idea that reddit is historically anything but at least right of center.

    By the way Musk bots have been on reddit for a long time. Once upon a time the mods of /r/technology tried to limit the amount of musk posts on that subreddit. Otherwise they would be flooding the top posts of the subreddit all the time. The musk bots caused quite a scene. I think it led to that subreddit getting removed as a default. I might be remembering wrong though.

  • It’s just a happy accident that I had my 15 year old reddit account banned for calling out one of the many karmafarmers on the site. You know, the ones that’ll post something, get a bunch of upvotes (who knows if botted or not), then delete said post a couple of hours later. Who am I to tell if there’s a botting conspiracy there or not, but so much reposted slop ends up on r/all all the time. Anyway, glad I’ve, albeit forced, moved on just in time for the site to implode.

  • UncleGrandPa@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    1
    ·
    10 months ago

    i have noticed those espousing anti Fascist ideas are targeted …by reporting them for bogus reasons. like hate speech…against Fascists and Nazis.

    not only are the Mods helping but so are the Admins. they are actively supporting Fascist and Nazis against other voices.

    they appear to be attempting to make those ideas more acceptable to the general population.

  • Secret Music@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    0
    ·
    edit-2
    10 months ago

    Reddit is definitely trying the ragebait thing from what I saw before I left. With however the algorithm works there these days, /r/all actually got pretty good at showing me more of what I’m interested in (same as adverts to be honest, I did not mind getting random romance fantasy novels and shit advertised to me), which made me even more suspicious every time it would slip /r/conservative into my feed, even if the post only had like 10 upvotes.

    And maybe it’s just in my imagination but I would especially start seeing subs like conservative after literally just being active in subreddits that shit on conservatives. So it felt a lot to me like Reddit’s algorithm was actively trying to bait me at times to get into fights in places I should just ignore or block.

    • Sl00k@programming.dev
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      10 months ago

      Definitely wasn’t just you, I’ve noticed Reddit actively feeds me content from subs I’m subscribed to that will bait me to argue with less than 100 upvotes, meanwhile it won’t show me major posts from the same sub that I actually wish to see.

  • lennybird@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    0
    ·
    10 months ago

    I’ve noticed:

    • r/news and r/worldnews hijacked by conservative zionist mods.

    • r/pics locking many political anti-maga comment threads with hardly anything there and never an explanation for transparency.

    • r/conservative feels like it’s being artificially amplified.

    • yarr@feddit.nl
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      10 months ago

      r/news and r/worldnews hijacked by conservative zionist mods.

      correction: USA hijacked by conservative zionists

  • niketunic@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    0
    ·
    10 months ago

    i’ve left reddit for the most part, as of a few days ago. i’ve signed up here. still trying to tweak my subscriptions

    • Humanius@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      edit-2
      10 months ago

      Welcome! Hope you enjoy your stay.

      I’ve been here for 1.5 years now, ever since the previous Reddit exodus.
      Its not as big, so finding a niche community is a bit tricky sometimes. But overall I find this place quite cozy.

      One recommendation I tend to give to newbies is to ignore the .ml instances. They claim to be Marxist-Leninists and the moderation there tends to be iffy at best.

      Other than that using this place has been smooth sailing for me.

  • fallowseed@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    0
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    10 months ago

    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.

    • LuxSpark@lemmy.cafe
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      10 months ago

      Don’t give these fuckers an inch. They will take a mile and be shitting all over you before you know it.

      • vaguerant@fedia.io
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        2
        ·
        10 months ago

        I wouldn’t bother taking anyone who uses “this country” unqualified on the Internet seriously. Even if they are being serious.

    • TommySoda@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      10 months ago

      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.