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What "political agenda"? If anything, the original core of the site was very left-leaning or heterodox technophiles that didn't have a home on Slashdot. The pol
by alecb 6y ago
What "political agenda"? If anything, the original core of the site was very left-leaning or heterodox technophiles that didn't have a home on Slashdot. The political parts of the site are now very much deadlocked in the center-right frame of the Democratic party, pretty far away from what the site once was.
- draw_down 6y ago"Agenda" is what people say when they mean "I wanted to look at cat pics but you guys keep talking about real life"
- logicslave 6y agoNo agenda means a set of actions taken under the umbrella of pushing a narrative or perspective on the world.
- augustt 6y agoI'm shocked, shocked to find that a bunch of college-aged males are pushing narratives such as legalizing weed on you. Must be DNC bots.
- logicslave 6y agoThe agenda is clearly supported by management at reddit.
- augustt 6y agoI'm guessing there's really nothing that would convince you that your views just aren't as popular with reddit's audience as you think. You'll have more luck with the Facebook 5G truther crowd.
- logicslave 6y agoI'm not a conspiracy theorist, what I'm saying is widely acknowledged...
- logicslave 6y agoPosts and content that have an agenda behind them are unnaturally surfaced on the front page.
- AlexandrB 6y agoOr posts and content that have an agenda behind them are popular and naturally end up on the front page. I see a lot of speculation about reddit being manipulated and no evidence of such manipulation being posted.
- jaywalk 6y agoThe fact that you'd describe Reddit as "center-right" currently is enough to tell me you're coming at this from a very different perspective than the average person. I would say that Reddit began as libertarian, and is now far-left.
- _emacsomancer_ 6y ago> I would say that Reddit began as libertarian, and is now far-left. In the same way that Biden, who pushed Reagan from the right on 'tough on crime' laws, is portrayed as the far-left.
- jaywalk 6y agoI wouldn't call Biden far-left by any means, and the support he has on Reddit doesn't seem to be much more enthusiastic than "he's the best chance we have of getting rid of Trump."
- _emacsomancer_ 6y agoThere's a lot of wiping away a tear posts about the 'compassion' of the author of the Crime Bill.
- commandlinefan 6y ago> the original core of the site was very left-leaning I don't remember it that way. I remember it being very libertarian (Ron Paul was the Bernie Sanders of 2000's reddit) for a very long time. I believed that the shift to a left-wing orientation was organic and representative of the general population UNTIL the whole T_D thing came along... T_D was doing the same thing, pulling the site to the right, until Reddit's owners worked overtime to make sure that didn't happen. That makes me suspect that the liberalism was also artificial.
- AlexandrB 6y agoI find it pretty funny that you're accusing reddit of being "artificially liberal" when it's actually organically liberal thanks to its demographics and history. The market has chosen, isn't that the libertarian way?
- bitwize 6y agoAaron Swartz was a huge Chomsky fan. Reddit leadership was always on the left.
- tnecniv 6y agoI'm not sure why you're being downvoted, perhaps over how people are defining core. In terms of the user base, I definitely remember early Reddit having a strong libertarian bent, or at least significant conflict between libertarians and more mainstream leftists. Things seemed to shift left roughly when the Digg influx happened.