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I can't really think of a reason for that as Reddit is hated somewhat equally by "both" sides of the spectrum. It's just something I find interesting.

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[-] kplaceholder@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Funny, just a few hours ago I was telling a friend that I noticed the opposite. This conversation started because while r/antiwork and r/work_reform had mostly incompatible ideologies, with antiwork being more radical, Lemmy suggested to me a community titled "Antiwork/Work reform" which is noticeably more status quo compacent. Additionally, the rate of posts going "capitalism isn't that bad, actually" and "fuck tankies" in my TL is higher than in Reddit.

I think this has to do with the amount of active users. If, say, 2% of active users are very vocal about abolishing wage slavery, if there are like 1000 users, that 2% is just 20 people, which wouldn't make a very active community, whereas if it's 100 000 users, then that makes 2000 people who can already make a sort of "echo chamber" where they can openly and actively discuss their ideas.

Also, not to forget that Reddit, like all mass social media, has algorithms meant to maximize your session lengths and that usually involves exposing you to more extremist ideas, both left and right.

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[-] dottedgreenline@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

So was reddit a long long time ago. I watched and felt it shift to the centre then heavily to the right. Conservatives destroy everything in the world. I don't doubt your favourite communitues will start heavily skewing right soon enough. (edit:typo)

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[-] Ulrich_the_Old@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 year ago

It is driven entirely by the moderators. r/Canada got taken over by alt-right moderators which attracted alt-right redditors.

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[-] Clbull@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

All the right wingers went to Gab, Parler, Voat, Poal, Truth Social and other places.

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[-] newIdentity@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago
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[-] gunnm@monero.town 0 points 1 year ago

I am not American so I don't care about your left winged ideas.

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[-] Durpadurp@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

I am a Nonist and hate reddit because of the cry baby and power tripping mods. Politics and political leaning doesn't exist in my internet life. For my old ass the internet is another world.

[-] dangblingus@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Left wingers: "The right is full of neo-fascists who want to exploit natural resources, subjugate minorities, project their own pedophilia habits onto us, roll back the clock on women's rights, and are willing to lie, cheat, beg, borrow, and steal to get it all done!"

Right wingers: "The left is ANNOYING!"

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