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> 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, beca

> 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.

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.