I'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 stro

I'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.