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These are left extremist takes on current events. On social media, when I click "Pics", I'd expect photography. What we see there is political content that di
by user34283 9mo ago
These are left extremist takes on current events.
On social media, when I click "Pics", I'd expect photography.
What we see there is political content that distinctly reminds of a publication from a local socialist youth chapter.
- qingcharles 9mo agoReddit subs sometimes don't match the content you'd expect from their name (some are very hard to decode for outsiders, e.g. femcelgrippysockjail, gangstalking etc). Perhaps pics was once just pretty landscape photography, but what happens with Reddit is that a sub will start to focus on one type of content that the hivemind wants and then the sub will fracture. You have to go find r/lovelylandscapes if that is what you want. It'll be there somewhere. You landed in the wrong sub.
- user34283 9mo agoThat's not really the issue here. This strong political orientation is widespread across default subreddits including /r/news or /r/europe and affects the Home / front page.
- FatherOfCurses 9mo agoThere is /r/photographs and /r/photography for that. Maybe you want your personal preferences served up to you without having to work for it?
- user34283 9mo agoThe first has 300k users, while /r/pics sports 33M. The second is for discussion rather than posting photos. Good that you ask, because that's exactly what I get on X: after liking some photos, I see mostly photography in my feed. This brings us back to the original topic here: this appears to work well on X, while it is Reddit that pushes politics into my feed via default subreddits.