• 2ugly2live@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    “Going to?”

    One of the reasons I came to Lemmy was because I was tired of their rhetoric. It became very sexist and racist. Not to mention is almost all bots just posting and replying to each other. Reddit was turning into cesspool ages ago.

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    Not just right wing voices emerge, democratic people now see it’s pointless to argue. Which is the much bigger damage. Imagine what happens when people no longer fight back. We live in post-factual times, it’s over.

  • Sunshine (she/her)@lemmy.ca
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    1% of Reddit’s political contributions went straight into the Republican Party. It will only get worse from here.

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      Yeah the mods keep letting filthy degen conservatives through

      No /s

      They wanted a corporate hellscape, they know where it is, go back where you came from, conservatives.

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    Perhaps all the bots pushing her campaign got shut down, and the site is now organic again?

    There’s no way r/all was that interested in her campaign to start with. The past couple of weeks have been super weird. I check the top 10 post on r/all regularly to see if anything special is going on in the world as i can’t be bothered doom scrolling news sites.

    All that’s been on the top is how amazing she is and awful he is. I highly doubt the average user is that invested in the topic.

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    Well, it was the birthplace of t_d… not like it didn’t have lots of right wing voices before.

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      I’m familiar with t_d. They have always been there but they would sequester themselves to right wing spaces. Election time they’d come out their hidey holes but were very easy to spot.

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        Not that I disagree with you that they are becoming more prominent, but I think we are also definitely still in the aftermath of ‘election time’

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    Just leave reddit.

    Really, the platform has gone straight to shit in the last 18 months. There are possibly more bots than humans at this point, and a huge number of the people who made it good back in the day are gone. Much of the interaction is now driven by algorithmic rage farming.

    Its CEO is a small-minded vicious little fascist. Staying on reddit helps support the hard right.

    Leave. Don’t look back. If Lemmy and Mastodon don’t seem as exciting, make them better by being active here.

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      Lemmy is basically my /r/all and I find use for Reddit when it comes to niche subs. Maybe one day Lemmy will be useful for that but it’s nowhere close to that level right now. There’s also a ton of fucking clowns on Lemmy as well, and you all know who I’m talking about

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    The US is already transitioning to a right wing society right before you eyes. Reddit as well as all mainstream media are just following this movement.

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      I wouldn’t have agreed with you a week ago but I think you’re right. I live in Loudoun county Virginia which is quite blue. My oldest kid who is 15 asked me if I was really voting for Harris, because he and his friends like Trump more. Then my second oldest who is 11 also told me he likes Trump more than Harris.

      My family is Dutch Canadian so it’s not like anyone in my family was speaking positively about Trump. Quite the opposite actually.

      They are getting all these ideas online and conservatives are absolutely crushing the digital landscape with podcasts and YouTube. They are making connections with the youth that the dems just aren’t offering right now.

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        It’s because they’re offering easy answers to complicated problems. No one wants to listen to me explain for 45 minutes why something is an issue that dates back three decades and will probably require three more decades of fixing, they just want to feel good now.

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      Be specific, right wing, authoritarian run, society.

      They make women wear burqas in the middle east. The gnashing of teeth around here will be very unsettling.

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      Meh, it’s also usually useless. Much less useful then it had been in the past. I honestly have more luck with gpt then scrolling through dead posts with 1 response that I have to load twice because anything other than old reddit is a psychic attack that will wound me.

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          surely you don’t go to the comments section because you want to see comments? you go there because you want post recommendations, right? please click on the recommended posts

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          So many good answer are buried under few levels of comments, Really can’t have collective knowledge fall into some parasite’s hands like that again. I bet many people are here for that reason.

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          Welcome to America. I watched my dad get indoctrinated from ages 14 to 30. It started after a bad divorce and I often wonder if there was ever a real, living, thinking, adventurous, person under there. He has so many story’s of his extraordinary past but I look at him today and he’s just a cog collecting garbage. If I had the financial freedom he managed to weasle out through inheritance and disability I would break down walls.

          Sorry, got distracted, my point is it doesn’t take a rabbit hole through some reddit link to fall into conservative media. They literally pump it out into the airwaves for anyone with a am radio to consume endlessly.

          If there is any hope for future generations it will be the tradition of Americans to flip the table and fuck shit up. Unfortunately the GOP co-opted those types and are winning on that front too.

          Will be interesting to watch their fall from grace. The ones who make it out. No more interesting then watching the fuck ups that escape the Mormon church, or anything of the sort, though.

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    I’m watching leftist subs already get filled up with Russian propaganda about the election being stolen. It’s depressing. They’re doing the same shit to us as they did to the right in 2020 and we’re falling for it.

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      I haven’t seen any of my friends repeat stolen election claims. Most everyone seems to feel that the margin was huge, and the DNC fucked up, but it is what it is. A few are panicking and worried of violence, so we’re getting together for a bonfire together to reassure them that we’ll all be OK, and we are in an area where no one would allow harm to come to their neighbor. We lived through four years of Trump before, and it was stupid every day, and we’ll live through it again.

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        The implications of actually deporting all the illegals, & Trumps repeated rhetoric of persecuting his political opponents is what is really worrying me. The project 2025 agenda being the playbook… Theyve had 4 years of planning for this second time around of the monkeys running the circus

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      Yep, vast majority is foreign actors is my guess. Trying to get us to tear ourselves apart

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      The right actually LARPed it and some of them still do today lol

      But yeah prolly did get that great idea from a shill op and organge man flamed since it resonated

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    A lot of active people left, be it here, Tildes, Discuit, Discord.

    The population still there has a higher right wing ratio

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      Reddit needs to switch because the right wing propaganda machine doesn’t like competition and wants reddit for itself. They aren’t going to Twitter it because it fragile enough, being mod run, to fall apart. Instead they will flip it.