Now Reddit’s not just promoting ragebait and AI generated stories, but divisive conservative rhetoric. Anyone else notice the non-political subreddits spontaneously hosting a population of chuds and propagandists where a few weeks ago they weren’t tolerated?

Has reddit changed the algorithm? Has some nation begun its bot operation? Has reddit deployed bots at musk’s behest? Has twitter sent its worst users to brigade? (All of twitter’s users are its worst users) I don’t know, but the effect is striking. All I’m certain about is that I’m avoiding reddit even harder now.

  • lennybird@lemmy.worldEnglish
    23·
    15 days ago

    I’ve noticed:

    • r/news and r/worldnews hijacked by conservative zionist mods.

    • r/pics locking many political anti-maga comment threads with hardly anything there and never an explanation for transparency.

    • r/conservative feels like it’s being artificially amplified.

    • TypicalHog@lemm.eeEnglish
      8·
      15 days ago

      r/pics is absolutely bonkers. Not only it’s mostly not about the general pics and it’s mostly politics, but the pics are ALL anti-trump, anti-Elon etc. It’s supposed to be for pics and not a leftist political echo-chamber for showing how much they hate Trump and Elon. It’s so crazy.

      • lennybird@lemmy.worldEnglish
        23·
        15 days ago

        Nah r/pics is pics and pics of anything are permitted there.

        Naturally it represents the zeitgeist and what is on the collection of people’s minds who frequent that sub will determine the content.

        Beggars can’t be choosers. If you want more specific rules, then find more niche subs. Simple as that.

        Alternatively, don’t shove fascists down our throats and this wouldn’t happen.

        • TypicalHog@lemm.eeEnglish
          2·
          15 days ago

          Don’t you think r/pics should mainly contain general pics instead of being 90% Trump/Elon hating pics? They might as well rebrand themselves to r/politicspics

          • lennybird@lemmy.worldEnglish
            15·
            15 days ago

            Honestly? If I had it my way, there would be a DEFCON 5 Alert across every single subreddit in solidarity with the literal fucking crisis that is happening right now. This extends well beyond how much I care about some subreddit and how randomized the platter of pics are. At the end of the day, you can’t “force” generality in a sub with loose rules on submissions; hell I think they even allow people to filter them as they’re tagged as political to begin with.

    • yarr@feddit.nlEnglish
      5·
      14 days ago

      r/news and r/worldnews hijacked by conservative zionist mods.

      correction: USA hijacked by conservative zionists