I wish we could see up/downvotes like in the past. I think reddit may be artificially boosting some posts into the front page. You can see in the screenshot it has very little upvotes (or older) compared to the other top 4 posts.
I have no evidence other than noticing right after the election, /r/conservative seems to be hitting the front page every day. But I remember before the election, it only hit the front page once in a blue moon or so. Is this just me? Am I the only one noticing this?
I have a Reddit account. I strictly use it for…science. that’s all I have had in my feed. 100% science every single day for years.
now, I see political posts, conservative bullshit, etc.
It’s not just you. There is a coordinated effort from Big Tech to effectively take over the US Govt.
I mean, r/movies is trending higher with even less votes.
And the r/conservative post has 6000 comments like the top post, while the rest are only 4000.
Sounds to me like just another algorithm than a push towards conservatism.
Controversial post easily make front page for a while now.
I always hated that reddit goes for roller coaste algorithim, you cant get max dopamine youll be satisfied and youll leave, instead you need the highs and lows from controversy to maximize the amount of ads we see, I was so over it when ads started showing up inbetween comments
6k comments, flaired users only? Sus.
Reeks of LLM spam
The flaired thing always made me laugh. Biggest babies out there. Just think of that Kyle kid crying in court
i don’t miss those +1k comment threads, scrolling them gets annoying, also, i recused from commenting if there was already +150, otherwise was like talking to the void
Its interesting that on lemmy almost everyone gets some kind of upvote/downvote (interaction) whereas on reddit and other sites, you either get viral success or…nothing. No upvotes/downvotes no interactions. My theory is the algorithm + number of people de-humanizes the act of communication in such large communities.
i used to sort by r/new for years, i learned what mods liked to take down, so i didn’t waste time on those post, then make some funny/attempt-to-clever comment and watched raise to the front page as top comment, it was like playing a video game for me
OMG I did the same thing too… but the funny/sad thing was that I started doing those “typical reddit” comments that weren’t really insightful but got lots of upvotes. Then when I came here to Lemmy I had to stop myself from making those kinds of comments.
Human to me means small groups and being heard by other humans. I hope Lemmy doesn’t hyper-centralize.
I enjoyed the void, commenting into the void was my favorite pastime til I did it on an alt and got autopermbanned, some thread with thousands of comments and it instabanned all my alts and main account
It really helped the adhd, helped the anxiety knowing no one would probably see it or reply
you used it just to reply to yourself like you’re doing here? you can do that with messaging apps, unless you got a thrill from someone may be watching
It made me feel better that I was screaming into a void, no one would see it or reply, no pressure, I still wanted to say stuff, reminded me of twitter before I had hella ppl ik irl follow me, ruined it
Hey, unironically you should try one of those private social networks where it’s all just AI bots and you’re the only human. I mean, I hope you stay here too but it might help you to have a place where you can say things without human judgment but you still get some kind of feedback.
It’s where all the ML Wumao flocked. They killed the Democratic Party, now they’re going after the republicans. They don’t care about Gaza, it’s all about starting an American civil war.
I feel like the Democratic Party did a lot of this to themselves. They’ve been stepping on rakes for a while now.
I can’t argue with that. But the genocide Joe chant spread far and wide, meanwhile the creators of it knew very well what a Trump win would accomplish.
Yeah there’s definitely plenty of blame to go around
You think those saying the dems aren’t left enough went to reddit to be conservatives???
Is that what you interpreted from my comment? Really? Like, no joking, your comprehension skills arrived at this?
Idk how else you can read it, but yeah blame my reading comprehension…
I will let someone else explain this.
No please explain
Many of the people claiming to be too liberal for the dems online were not really people, or at least not eligible US voters. They choose whichever perspective is most destabilizing at the moment and push that, sometimes switching accounts and sometimes not even bothering to do that. Theyll jump from Bernie to Trump to Stein and back to Trump without a second thought because they do not actually believe in the positions they are backing, only the chaos they can cause. Some of these people are unaffiliated trolls, some are self organized volunteers, some are paid call center workers and some are bots.
Fine, since you said please. If you need any clarification just let me know.
I’ll use Lemmy as an example, though the same applies to Reddit. A few months before the election, the phrase “Genocide Joe” was making the rounds. On the surface, it was a criticism of Biden for not stopping arms sales to Israel. I don’t disagree with that criticism. However, this wasn’t a campaign to pressure Biden into action—it was designed to convince Democrats not to vote in protest.
Not everyone who repeated the phrase had bad intentions, but the origins and those aggressively pushing it weren’t doing so out of concern for Gaza. Their goal was something else: weakening the Democratic Party to help Trump win.
They don’t like Trump or believe he would help Gaza—they know he’d make things worse. But that’s not the point. What they want is to accelerate the destruction of the United States by turning Americans against each other and weakening the government from within.
A direct assault on the U.S. isn’t possible—we’re too powerful. The only way to bring us down is through internal collapse, by fueling division and distrust.
After the election, many of the most vocal “Genocide Joe” accounts vanished or went silent. They had served their purpose. Now, the target has shifted: Republicans are next. Suddenly, there’s a surge in activity in conservative spaces, using new slogans tailored to stoke anger at Republican politicians and the government in general.
This is the work of blackpill provocateurs—people who infiltrate movements under false pretenses, not to support them, but to spread division and hopelessness. Their tactics don’t change—only their targets do.
Summary/TLDR
Blackpill provocateurs infiltrate online communities to sow division and weaken the U.S. from within. Before the election, they pushed “Genocide Joe” to discourage Democrats from voting—not to help Gaza, but to damage Biden and help Trump. After the election, many of those accounts disappeared, having served their purpose. Now, they’re targeting Republicans, using similar tactics to turn conservatives against their own politicians. Their goal isn’t to help any cause—it’s to accelerate America’s collapse by fueling internal conflict.
It always annoyed me when a post reached the front page and they limited who was allowed to comment on it. I usually didn’t even know what sub I was in until after I typed my comment and clicked submit. Followed by auto mod deleting my post.
I forgot how much I hated that about Reddit. Good riddance.
Reddit doesn’t remove removed commented from the count.
I mean if they did then most conservative posts would have like 5 comments
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I don’t notice anything on Reddit because I never go there anymore. I swear some of y’all treating Reddit like that ex you never shut up about and keep stalking every five minutes to check if their life turned out better than yours.
Edit: My bad guys. Didn’t pay attention to what community this post was in.
Not saying your wrong lol. But this is the /c/reddit community. We are not going to go and post on reddit about this (well not anymore). And my local community is not going to remove themselves on reddit unless something pretty horrific happens. I like fediverse more (so im supporting that).
Does it also count if you don’t stalk your ex yourself but do stalk a community dedicated to stalking that exact same ex?
I like to hear the shit that goes down there (and other sites) for multiple reasons.
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so i can discuss these ongoing enshitification with friends i know still frequent it and are not on the fediverse.
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to archive/understand/study the dynamics of enshitificication/collapse/fascist momentum so i may learn how to defend against those and if successful educate others.
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to deliver dopamine to my brain by feeding the inbuild superiority complex within my human mind. Most of us enjoy seeing our choices redeemed. Shallow and primitive yes but so is arguable 90% of social media.
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Im forced to use it whenever I google anything on anything lol, I hope to never use it again tho
Fwiw, if you use old reddit, posts have an upvote percentage (not counting any vote fuzzing). To calculate number of downvotes:
NetScore / upvote% - NetScore.
this post was submitted on 05 Feb 2025 9,822 points (83% upvoted)
This is what the percentage is for this post. Posting this in case anyone is curious as to the percentage in agreement. Reddit groups that have a “flair” policy do not stop you from up or down voting a post.
Then it is approx 11384 upvotes, 2012 downvotes.
yes that’s how I would calculate it
Unfortunately reddit has fuzzed their up/downvotes for many years now. So every reload is going to get different numbers.
I think they have upped the amount of fuzzing more recently too.
Reaction bait
Definitely noticed this, commenting to argue got me banned off some subs that assume commenters are conservative, reddit is slowly on its way out
Reason i went to Redit Sync because you could bloke subs and individuals or even key words. Life was more enjoyable when you could block the Leonard or conservatives.
I do the same on mastodon. I want pictures of puppys not hearing about whatever dump/elmo are pooping on next.
Consider r/redditseppuku
The flat earthers have taken over!