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Having spent too much time on Reddit recently, I'm not entirely sure. The comment is hyperbolic, to be sure, but on the other hand the most popular subreddits
by rootusrootus 3y ago
Having spent too much time on Reddit recently, I'm not entirely sure. The comment is hyperbolic, to be sure, but on the other hand the most popular subreddits have gone largely insane. Quite noticeably in the last year. Every subreddit now has a political ideological stance, and some quite overtly threaten your access if you don't toe the line.
- sosodev 3y agoI don't think this is a Reddit problem. All social media platforms have increasingly large groups of crazy people. However, I highly suspect that those groups are just a very vocal minority and not hundreds of millions of people as the OP said.
- rootusrootus 3y agoIf I recall the statistics, and assume them to be accurate, something like 1 out of 100 people make almost all the posts you see on a site like Reddit. Which means if anyone who looks at Reddit thinks the thoughts & opinions they are reading are representative of the population at large, they are very mistaken. I think after a while a lot of the quieter people get so turned off by the whole experience they just step away altogether. I strongly suspect that a subreddit claiming to have a million subscribers probably has at least two orders of magnitude fewer in reality. And that may still be an overestimate.
- cool_dude85 3y agoWhether or not "toe the line on the subreddit's political stance or be banned" is insane depends heavily on what the political stance is. Saying you can't post your Nazi grandpa in SS gear in r/oldschoolcool is a "political stance" but it makes total sense to force users to toe that line.