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I find Reddit to be wayyy too political for one side (that’s usually how clustering works) but without another guiding interest -like Tech here- it consumes and

I find Reddit to be wayyy too political for one side (that’s usually how clustering works) but without another guiding interest -like Tech here- it consumes and spreads to everything. The admin are kinder to banning the opposing Red team people who congregate there. I don’t mind this, but it selects for annoying people. This is further confusing when the site has many European users who are not even aware of the US political game. (look at the frontpage any day, it’s all Blue tribe with maybe 3-4 neutral animal posts. Why can’t it be 20 neutral things with 3-4 political posts?)

goalonetwo 3y ago
From all the social medias, Reddit is the biggest echo chamber. The voting system that glorifies posts that are voted by the community and hides posts that don't go with majority's opinion creates that one-sided effect. I don't spend a lot of time on Reddit but whenever I do, I always see the most left-leaning naive takes being upvoted massively.
morbicer 3y ago
Sorry, as European I don't understand how anyone can be team Red nowadays. I have respect for conservative viewpoint but Republican party got overtaken by very dangerous and at the same time stupid people. Democratic party might be corrupt and maybe focusing on wrong things but they are not trying to destroy democracy and outlaw human beings. Since Reddit demographics is mostly young and educated, no wonder it's leaning Blue. (The amount of tankie delusion on Reddit baffles me as well though)
- the_doctah 3y ago
  >but they are not trying to destroy democracy and outlaw human beings. 1. Trying to destroy democracy how? 2. Trying to outlaw human beings how? Be specific. Because you are parroting mainstream media nonsense, but you are likely just ignorant as a European.
  - morbicer 3y ago
    This wiki article is pretty tame explanation https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_2025 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_2025
- _pi 3y ago
  > (The amount of tankie delusion on Reddit baffles me as well though) I really love it when people think there's a "real" left anymore on Reddit. It was thoroughly decimated in 2016 and most left for Lemmy, Hexbear or Yesterweb
_pi 3y ago
HN's political "neutrality" is predicated on the fact that a lot of this site is rooted in convincing billionaires and multimillionaires to give you money for a passion project, and any kind of redistributive policies means that there's less money for them to give to you. If you excised the startup founder culture from HN (which you cant) you'd be left with a bunch of straight forward Dem party politics guys and a handful of libertarians.

goalonetwo 3y ago

From all the social medias, Reddit is the biggest echo chamber. The voting system that glorifies posts that are voted by the community and hides posts that don't go with majority's opinion creates that one-sided effect. I don't spend a lot of time on Reddit but whenever I do, I always see the most left-leaning naive takes being upvoted massively.

morbicer 3y ago

Sorry, as European I don't understand how anyone can be team Red nowadays. I have respect for conservative viewpoint but Republican party got overtaken by very dangerous and at the same time stupid people. Democratic party might be corrupt and maybe focusing on wrong things but they are not trying to destroy democracy and outlaw human beings. Since Reddit demographics is mostly young and educated, no wonder it's leaning Blue. (The amount of tankie delusion on Reddit baffles me as well though)

the_doctah 3y ago
>but they are not trying to destroy democracy and outlaw human beings. 1. Trying to destroy democracy how? 2. Trying to outlaw human beings how? Be specific. Because you are parroting mainstream media nonsense, but you are likely just ignorant as a European.
- morbicer 3y ago
  This wiki article is pretty tame explanation https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_2025 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_2025
_pi 3y ago
> (The amount of tankie delusion on Reddit baffles me as well though) I really love it when people think there's a "real" left anymore on Reddit. It was thoroughly decimated in 2016 and most left for Lemmy, Hexbear or Yesterweb

_pi 3y ago

HN's political "neutrality" is predicated on the fact that a lot of this site is rooted in convincing billionaires and multimillionaires to give you money for a passion project, and any kind of redistributive policies means that there's less money for them to give to you. If you excised the startup founder culture from HN (which you cant) you'd be left with a bunch of straight forward Dem party politics guys and a handful of libertarians.