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Yeah, that's an affirmation from someone who's in a very pampered US-centric group of Reddit users (if he is that at all). "My investment is very good!" In the

Yeah, that's an affirmation from someone who's in a very pampered US-centric group of Reddit users (if he is that at all). "My investment is very good!" In the last year, Reddit has pushed localized home pages across the world, and my own example is the default home page for Canada. It's now exclusively sports and right-wing nuttery. There were good communities, but they were molded by their good moderators, and these moderators are gone.

concordDance 3y ago
> In the last year, Reddit has pushed localized home pages across the world, and my own example is the default home page for Canada. I found this quite nice. A lot less American politics on the front page and some fun bits of local news.
Scoundreller 3y ago
> and my own example is the default home page for Canada. It's now exclusively sports and right-wing nuttery. I think that’s typical for any national sub, because it will be filled with people that live in places that don’t have the critical mass for a local/regional subreddit (or just don’t fit into it).
- Lalabadie 3y ago
  I'm not talking about the /r/Canada subreddit, I'm talking about the complete front page feed for Canadian visitors. There are several "main" Canadian subreddits, and the only ones showing up for anon Canadian guests now are the right-wing and far-right subreddits.
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  - VancouverMan 3y ago
    Can you be specific about these "right-wing and far-right" subreddits you're seeing on the front page? I'm not logged in (I don't have a Reddit account), I'm in Canada, and on the Reddit home page I'm currently seeing submissions associated with these Canada-specific subreddits: 6 for r/canada 2 for r/onguardforthee 2 for r/ontario 2 for r/PersonalFinanceCanada 1 for r/alberta 1 for r/vancouver None of those subreddits look "right-wing" or "far-right" to me in any way. In fact, I'm surprised at how left-leaning they tend to be, especially r/alberta. Of the current top five submissions there, four are for CBC articles, for example, and there are a few other CBC articles on the first page. r/onguardforthee seems to be overtly left wing. The other front page subreddits are broad (like r/AskReddit, r/politics, r/news), or about sports or hobbies (like r/gaming, r/baseball, r/hockey, r/FigureSkating). None the subreddits I'm seeing on the Reddit front page seem to me to even be right-of-centre, let alone "right-wing" or "far-right".
    - omginternets 3y ago
      It’s quite common for redditors to consider anything short of far-left as being far-right.
    - AlexeyBelov 3y ago
      That's rich coming from someone who definitely doesn't lean left.
VancouverMan 3y ago
> my own example is the default home page for Canada. It's now exclusively sports and right-wing nuttery. Can you give some concrete examples of this "right-wing nuttery" you mention? I've heard other people in Canada make this claim, but whenever I visit the Reddit home page (without logging in; I don't have a Reddit account), I consistently see the opposite. Right now, for example, two of the top five submissions I see are CBC and Toronto Star articles complaining about Ontario's Conservative government's policies. (For those who are unfamiliar with them, CBC and the Toronto Star are among the most left wing of Canada's mainstream media.) Still in the top ten, there's an article complaining about how some corporate layoffs at Bell were conducted. There's an anti-Trump article, a article about Biden cancelling some student loan debt, and a complaint about "the rich" (Musk, specifically) in the top fifteen. Beyond that, there's a submission complaining about a landlord's behaviour, an article about urban planning in Vancouver, and the front page ends with a submission that's upset about some munitions company executive cutting down some trees in the US. The rest are about sports, oddities, or otherwise don't seem to be political in nature. I wouldn't consider any of the submissions I'm being shown to be obviously "right-wing" in any way. A number of them I'd consider to be centrist or neutral, if not left-of-centre. Several are overtly left wing.
- Lalabadie 3y ago
  My experience of cookie-less Reddit (and the reason I don't go anymore) is getting served default subreddits like /r/Canada_sub. I'm very open to being wrong or outdated in my impression, however!

concordDance 3y ago

> In the last year, Reddit has pushed localized home pages across the world, and my own example is the default home page for Canada. I found this quite nice. A lot less American politics on the front page and some fun bits of local news.

Scoundreller 3y ago

> and my own example is the default home page for Canada. It's now exclusively sports and right-wing nuttery. I think that’s typical for any national sub, because it will be filled with people that live in places that don’t have the critical mass for a local/regional subreddit (or just don’t fit into it).

Lalabadie 3y ago
I'm not talking about the /r/Canada subreddit, I'm talking about the complete front page feed for Canadian visitors. There are several "main" Canadian subreddits, and the only ones showing up for anon Canadian guests now are the right-wing and far-right subreddits.
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- VancouverMan 3y ago
  Can you be specific about these "right-wing and far-right" subreddits you're seeing on the front page? I'm not logged in (I don't have a Reddit account), I'm in Canada, and on the Reddit home page I'm currently seeing submissions associated with these Canada-specific subreddits: 6 for r/canada 2 for r/onguardforthee 2 for r/ontario 2 for r/PersonalFinanceCanada 1 for r/alberta 1 for r/vancouver None of those subreddits look "right-wing" or "far-right" to me in any way. In fact, I'm surprised at how left-leaning they tend to be, especially r/alberta. Of the current top five submissions there, four are for CBC articles, for example, and there are a few other CBC articles on the first page. r/onguardforthee seems to be overtly left wing. The other front page subreddits are broad (like r/AskReddit, r/politics, r/news), or about sports or hobbies (like r/gaming, r/baseball, r/hockey, r/FigureSkating). None the subreddits I'm seeing on the Reddit front page seem to me to even be right-of-centre, let alone "right-wing" or "far-right".
  - omginternets 3y ago
    It’s quite common for redditors to consider anything short of far-left as being far-right.
  - AlexeyBelov 3y ago
    That's rich coming from someone who definitely doesn't lean left.

VancouverMan 3y ago

> my own example is the default home page for Canada. It's now exclusively sports and right-wing nuttery. Can you give some concrete examples of this "right-wing nuttery" you mention? I've heard other people in Canada make this claim, but whenever I visit the Reddit home page (without logging in; I don't have a Reddit account), I consistently see the opposite. Right now, for example, two of the top five submissions I see are CBC and Toronto Star articles complaining about Ontario's Conservative government's policies. (For those who are unfamiliar with them, CBC and the Toronto Star are among the most left wing of Canada's mainstream media.) Still in the top ten, there's an article complaining about how some corporate layoffs at Bell were conducted. There's an anti-Trump article, a article about Biden cancelling some student loan debt, and a complaint about "the rich" (Musk, specifically) in the top fifteen. Beyond that, there's a submission complaining about a landlord's behaviour, an article about urban planning in Vancouver, and the front page ends with a submission that's upset about some munitions company executive cutting down some trees in the US. The rest are about sports, oddities, or otherwise don't seem to be political in nature. I wouldn't consider any of the submissions I'm being shown to be obviously "right-wing" in any way. A number of them I'd consider to be centrist or neutral, if not left-of-centre. Several are overtly left wing.

Lalabadie 3y ago
My experience of cookie-less Reddit (and the reason I don't go anymore) is getting served default subreddits like /r/Canada_sub. I'm very open to being wrong or outdated in my impression, however!