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>I used to use Reddit a lot, now I'll use it a bit but generally I avoid all but a few subreddits. The others are unbearable, /r/politics is a swamp itself Is

by sigmar 8y ago

>I used to use Reddit a lot, now I'll use it a bit but generally I avoid all but a few subreddits. The others are unbearable, /r/politics is a swamp itself Is it "politics" that you want to avoid? or just views that differ from your own?

partiallypro 8y ago
I follow everyone from DailyKos to Weekly Standard on Twitter...I don't think I want to "avoid politics" or ones that differ from my own, most people find it very difficult to nail down what my views even are. I want to avoid circle jerks, nonsensical news items and conspiracies, etc. /r/politics and /r/The_Donald both offer no value to Reddit or society, they are all just echo chambers, and they don't value or encourage diversity in view points. They are the same thing but on opposite ends of the spectrum. /r/Politics will be full of "ShareBlue" links and /r/The_Donald will be full of Breitbart. Not sure where the diversity of thought comes into play, which seems to miss the point of a "forum." Anyhow, on the Facebook front you have equally uninformed people telling you their opinion on something, usually based on a false premise from a biased source they read...except this time you actually -know- these people. If you do try to find a middle ground, which is generally where most truth is, in the grey, you are attacked by both sides for not being on their team. Like it's some game.
- InternetUser 8y ago
  > /r/Politics will be full of "ShareBlue" links and /r/The_Donald will be full of Breitbart. I know it feels good to just breezily generalize, but I just looked through the 2 subreddits you named, and of the 125 top-voted links of the past 24 hours on /t/The_Donald, a whopping 4 of them are from Breitbart (a simply Ctrl+F on each page shows it). That subreddit is most memes, tweets, and even simple photos with smart-ass original titles written by the poster. Just do a word-find on "i.redd.it" and then "imgur.com" on each of the first few pages and see. As for Shareblue on /r/Politics, there are no links from the Shareblue.com domain in the top 125 links today, but I assume you were referring to the source of the narratives; well, you would more effective in just point to actual sites: of the top 125 links on there for the past 24 hours, 16 are from WashingtonPost.com and 15 are from TheHill.com. Edit - here: https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/ https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/ https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/ https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/
  - sudomake 8y ago
    I'm pretty sure "ShareBlue" links include washingtopost.com and thehill.com. Those sites are pretty much in total agreement with ShareBlue's positions
ghettoimp 8y ago
Anecdote. I'm very liberal and as upset as anyone about Trump and the aftermath. But I have an aunt who constantly posts anti-Trump stuff, and it is just so tedious. At best this sort of things ends up being a version of the two-minutes-hate. I've taken to telling it "hide posts from XXX political source" just to get rid of it all...
collyw 8y ago
Have you ever checked r/politics its basically just a Trump hate subreddit. There is no objectivity in it.
sudomake 8y ago
I gave up on reddit politics because it has an overwhelming pro establishment, pro-corporate-democrats bias. And in their effort to fight against "fake news" this has gotten worse because they effectively only accept links from pro-establishment sources like the washington post. Additionally,criticism of the democratic party from the left is frequently met with accusations of being a russian shill. Also I got tired of seeing overused words like "slammed" in article titles.

by sigmar 8y ago

partiallypro 8y ago

I follow everyone from DailyKos to Weekly Standard on Twitter...I don't think I want to "avoid politics" or ones that differ from my own, most people find it very difficult to nail down what my views even are. I want to avoid circle jerks, nonsensical news items and conspiracies, etc. /r/politics and /r/The_Donald both offer no value to Reddit or society, they are all just echo chambers, and they don't value or encourage diversity in view points. They are the same thing but on opposite ends of the spectrum. /r/Politics will be full of "ShareBlue" links and /r/The_Donald will be full of Breitbart. Not sure where the diversity of thought comes into play, which seems to miss the point of a "forum." Anyhow, on the Facebook front you have equally uninformed people telling you their opinion on something, usually based on a false premise from a biased source they read...except this time you actually -know- these people. If you do try to find a middle ground, which is generally where most truth is, in the grey, you are attacked by both sides for not being on their team. Like it's some game.

InternetUser 8y ago
> /r/Politics will be full of "ShareBlue" links and /r/The_Donald will be full of Breitbart. I know it feels good to just breezily generalize, but I just looked through the 2 subreddits you named, and of the 125 top-voted links of the past 24 hours on /t/The_Donald, a whopping 4 of them are from Breitbart (a simply Ctrl+F on each page shows it). That subreddit is most memes, tweets, and even simple photos with smart-ass original titles written by the poster. Just do a word-find on "i.redd.it" and then "imgur.com" on each of the first few pages and see. As for Shareblue on /r/Politics, there are no links from the Shareblue.com domain in the top 125 links today, but I assume you were referring to the source of the narratives; well, you would more effective in just point to actual sites: of the top 125 links on there for the past 24 hours, 16 are from WashingtonPost.com and 15 are from TheHill.com. Edit - here: https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/ https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/ https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/ https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/
- sudomake 8y ago
  I'm pretty sure "ShareBlue" links include washingtopost.com and thehill.com. Those sites are pretty much in total agreement with ShareBlue's positions

ghettoimp 8y ago

Anecdote. I'm very liberal and as upset as anyone about Trump and the aftermath. But I have an aunt who constantly posts anti-Trump stuff, and it is just so tedious. At best this sort of things ends up being a version of the two-minutes-hate. I've taken to telling it "hide posts from XXX political source" just to get rid of it all...

collyw 8y ago

Have you ever checked r/politics its basically just a Trump hate subreddit. There is no objectivity in it.

sudomake 8y ago

I gave up on reddit politics because it has an overwhelming pro establishment, pro-corporate-democrats bias. And in their effort to fight against "fake news" this has gotten worse because they effectively only accept links from pro-establishment sources like the washington post. Additionally,criticism of the democratic party from the left is frequently met with accusations of being a russian shill. Also I got tired of seeing overused words like "slammed" in article titles.