Are there any alternatives to reddit that aren't overly left wing but a good mix of both left and right wing?
Posted by CivClassicThrowaway@reddit | RedditAlternatives | View on Reddit | 216 comments
I think reddit is now pretty left wing. I am looking for old reddit before the right wingers were kicked out, but not a right wing monoculture.
aworldwithoutshrimp@reddit
Reddit is not left wing, though?
Imhazmb@reddit
Ok, try posting something about AOC in any general sub and see how many upvotes you get. Then, try posting something about DJT and see how many downvotes you get. Then let's revisit your statement.
aworldwithoutshrimp@reddit
I'm going to say this as gently as possible. It is good that positive posts about a fascist get downvoted. AOC is a social democrat. She is nowhere near as far left as Trump is far right. Trump is a fascist; AOC is not even a democratic socialist.
Imhazmb@reddit
I’m going to walk you through this as simply as possible - would a left wing or a right wing person agree with what you’re saying?
aworldwithoutshrimp@reddit
Both! The answer is both! Most people left of capitalism would agree. Most liberals would also agree. And liberals, being right of capital, are rightwing. Some people who are illiberal but also not leftists would even agree. And most fascists get super sad when you point out that they're being fascists. Those people probably would not agree with me.
Imhazmb@reddit
So the majority of voters are simply fascist, and we can just dismiss them immediately, and therefore you win the argument! Dang it. I must concede, Trump is literally hitler, that’s a very moderate belief, and Reddit is in no way left wing 🙂
aworldwithoutshrimp@reddit
No! You got the math wrong again. The majority of voters are liberals. We have a liberal, capitalist economic superstructure. Most voters are fine with that. Those voters are rightwing. Fascism is capitalism in decay. The fascist minority is also rightwing. Very few people are left of capitalism. So, reddit leans right because the status quo does, too.
Imhazmb@reddit
You are trying to get your way by complicating the definitions so that they suit your purposes. This isn’t that complicated. Reddit supports the left wing figurehead (AOC) over the right wing figurehead (DJT). To further illustrate the point, Let’s pick the 4 topics the right and left in this country are most split on - abortion, gun control, immigration, the degree to which minorities are oppressed. In your own words, does Reddit, generally, as measured by the likelihood your are going to get net up or down votes, does Reddit take the rights position on ANY of these issues? Is there one issue you can provide, and I leave the floor entirely open to you, that Reddit takes the stance of the average republican over the stance of the average democrat in this country? All I am asking is one single example.
aworldwithoutshrimp@reddit
You are confusing progressive/illiberalism under capitalism with left/right. That's not me complicating political theory. That's you not understanding. Guns are not a left/right issue. The left is pro-gun. You should familiarize yourself with the socialist rifle association. AOC is not a leftist figurehead. There is no leftist figurehead in the US. AOC may be the figurehead for social democracy and progressivism within capitalism. But there is no viable leftist party in the US for anyone to be a figurehead of.
Again, this is really a failure of you to understand political theory. The republican party and the democratic party are two rightwing parties. There are differences between them, sure. And one of them has a minority of members who hew close to not being rightwing. But they are both rightwing parties.
Imhazmb@reddit
I can’t even say if you’re correct, and neither can anyone else for that matter. The point is you are missing the point. Let’s not use the terms left and right wing since these get you going (and miss the point). What is meant (i.e., the relevant point) when people say Reddit is left wing is that Reddit echoes the views of the Democratic Party and villainizes those of the Republican Party.
aworldwithoutshrimp@reddit
This, too, is wrong. We have an academic discipline devoted to political theory. There is a lot written about it. You not understanding that guns are not a left/right issue is telling of the problems of ignorance in that regard.
It was literally the question the OP was asking.
But that is not what leftwing means. It does a good job of erasing leftists to think so and is a mechanism to assert that politics only goes so far as center-right. But that's why that nonsense needs to be identified. The democrats are a rightwing party. Reddit leans right, but not as far-right as the fascists.
Imhazmb@reddit
I think you're probably right in the point you're trying to make about academic definitions of right and left wing. But what you are maybe missing is that by and large, the overwhelming majority of time people complain about reddit being too 'leftwing', what they mean is what gets upvoted on reddit nearly always aligns with the viewpoints of the democratic establishment, and what aligns with the viewpoints of the republican establishment nearly always gets downvoted. In that way it is extremely biased toward one politcal party - the one that leans further left.
aworldwithoutshrimp@reddit
If that's the case, then it is all the more reason to correct people while other people are reading. Otherwise we cede political positions.
Dunkmaxxing@reddit
People apply the term far too broadly is the issue. Things like veganism, socialism, anarchism, UBI, and communism are left wing ideologies. See how many people on Reddit you can actually convince of those and come back and tell me Reddit is left wing. From what I've seen it is heavily centrist with a mix of right and left wing takes inbetween depending on the sub you are on. The centrists and right wingers are often unbearable in their debating skills too.
Imhazmb@reddit
You are factually incorrect. Try posting something about AOC in any general sub and see how many upvotes you get. Then, try posting something about DJT and see how many downvotes you get. Then let's revisit your statement.
Duke_Nicetius@reddit
I can hardly see veganism as a left-wing. And vegetarianism, a less radical thing, was actually practiced by Hitler so I totally imagine veganism was also possible in the right-wing circles.
Socialism and UBI - I think most of reddit are for this, at least if we ask in political subs. Let's try a poll? But you'll have to do it, I'm banned in those :-)
Caliypsso@reddit
Actually Hitler has more in common with the left-wing / socialism (nationalsozialism actually) approach to politics than right-wing typical values (free market, less estate intervention, less control of personal economics...).
Duke_Nicetius@reddit
I will partially agree with you but it's a complicated topic as there are no universal worldwide definitions of right-wing and left-wing, especially historically. Like, free market or small government for year 1900 in Germany or France is definitely not a right-wing thing (as there giht-wingers will be likely ultra-nationalistic monarchists who support class-based society and big centralized royal administration).
Dunkmaxxing@reddit
Veganism is typically categorised as left-wing because ideologies that centre around harm reduction for all living beings regardless of their standing in the social hierarchy are perceived as left-wing. Most often, veganism is argued from a negative utilitarian perspective, which leans left-wing as it typically means to combat inequalities and social injustices with solutions that would imply left-wing politics.
Duke_Nicetius@reddit
Well, again, Nazis were among the first in Europe to implement laws against cruelty to animals so it's not inherently Left agenda.
Dunkmaxxing@reddit
I agree it isn't, but typically the methods of by which harm reduction is achieved is through the implementation of leftist ideas. Many leftists have their core principles be about the reduction of suffering, that then translate over to leftist ideas as the best way to achieve that goal.
Duke_Nicetius@reddit
Not all leftists though. Like, Marxists seek for real revolution that can hardly be peaceful, and they are not ashamed of things like Russian civil war for example. So it's not universal among the left to avoid harm.
ApprehensiveLaw2672@reddit
"The centrists and right wingers are often unbearable in their debating skills too." That is just not true.
Can you define a woman?
Are you aware that left-wing policies have caused the safety of women to go down in the west? Left-wingers, from top down, hide all those horrible videos where bad things happen to an innocent woman or women even at day light. This was unheard of just some decades before.
Do you realize that asking of reparations of a guilt by association logical fallacy and a hasty generalization? And why no reparation of those ancestors who were affected by Communism or by certain ones that I cannot even specify in this left-wing pipeline? Double standards. Also, only 0.35% of whites ancestors owned slaves in USA so that is one weak correlation. I will not even compare that number to other numbers because I'm not even allowed to do it here. According to UN, there are 4 million slaves in Africa today but many left-wingers are silent because again the truth does not fir the narrative. Why don't you want to give them the money and support?
Even the top left-wing arguments are false.
Studies show that Reddit is dominated by left-wingers. The moderators are biased and all the top political threats push almost exclusively left-wing lies and cherry picked news. Radical left-wing threads are allowed while certain truthful and non-violent pro-right-wing threads are not.
smellslikekitty@reddit
No, you're right. It's blatant communism over here. Need to get away for a bit.
czareson_csn@reddit
it is very left wing
DruggedataDive@reddit
Yes it very much is.
unicorn_security@reddit
Nope, but unless it’s nothing but a far right echo chamber, it won’t be good enough. If they really wanted what they were looking for and were willing to put in effort, there are many Russian sites that fit the bill.
archangel8529@reddit
Isn’t that why you guys are running to Bluesky? Searching for a hugbox left wing echo chamber
spookigirll@reddit
Blue sky is full of pedophiles that left wingers say we need to have empathy for, lol. You better pray to god your never actually raped and almost murdered like I was. Oh but wait, no real woman here.
ApprehensiveLaw2672@reddit
You are basing your claims on nothing when you say: "unless it’s nothing but a far right echo chamber, it won’t be good enough".
Is it too much to ask to not allow hate to be spread towards certain groups?
Is it too much to ask for a unbiased mods?
Reddit's own guidelines ban "hate" towards "marginalized" and "minorities" (Only the voice of the "marginalized is broadcast by the system. Everything else is "hate speech". Everyone can see the truth with their own eyes and ears but left-wingers blindly trust the high finance on this...) but say noting against spearing hate towards majorities, which is obvious discrimination and hate. Elementary logic is systematically used to justify this double standard. There is no magical shield around majorities and that logic conveniently does not work in countries or cities were whites are a minority.
ApprehensiveLaw2672@reddit
There are studies on it and it showed that left-winger out number right-winger by a factor of 2 in Reddit, if I remember correctly. While in YouTube, for example, right-winger lead by a small margin. This is because YouTube is way more free and generally does not take down moderate right-wingers (there are a exceptions). YouTube, like Reddit, does take down even those who talk truthfully and non-threateningly about certain subjects like WW2 and Communism, but Reddit and moderators are heavy handedly censoring even not that "controversial" topics (the truth should not be controversial). Reddit allows the denial or justification of the world worst mass-murder, the one that was done my Bolsheviks and communists leaders from 1917-1956 but for course threads in support of National Socialism are banned.
aworldwithoutshrimp@reddit
You mean to say that there are studies showing that reddit leans liberal, not left. Liberals aren't leftists. But, yes: YouTube can be a rightwing cesspool.
ApprehensiveLaw2672@reddit
You always say "it is liberal, not left-wing" as an excuse when left-wing political bias is exposed. Everyone can see with their own eyes that left-wing arguments are only allowed in the top 1% of threads that are suggested and supported by Reddit, and radical left-wing supporting threads are allowed while even somewhat moderate right-wing thread are banned. These "liberals" support the corrupt tyrannical international billionaire elite's agenda without any questioning; they support the current thing.
I bit over-statement to say it is a right-wing cesspool when the research show that right-wing is only very slightly more represented in YouTube, and is in only because YouTube is more fair, less bias and more free. You cannot prove these right-wingers wrong so you try to demonize them with labels.
The people who control YouTube would like it to be a left-wing Marxist cesspool, but they cannot remove all right-wingers because they would lose more than half of their CAPITALISM and they would expose their bias. They may also fear some specific politicians from coming after them. I mean clearly Mark Zuckerberg for example is afraid of getting in trouble for political censorship and so he is making changes to Meta policies.
UndefinedFemur@reddit
You cannot be this clueless. Reddit isn’t left wing? What the fuck?
aworldwithoutshrimp@reddit
Correct, reddit is not leftwing. It's liberal. Liberals aren't leftists.
LeftHand-Inhales@reddit
It is left wing. It skews 70% left, & the entirety of the moderation is done by leftists that hate free speech. Anything not leftist is suppressed outside of like 3 subs.
StrangerEddy@reddit
So true.
ACLU_EvilPatriarchy@reddit
Please... next thing the mods for the various religious Christendom subs will all be Atheists, Pagans - Wiccans and extreme outre trans-lesbian married couples who are members of the Socialist Party...
Oh wait....
The Satanism and Witchcraft subs are larger than the Christendom, Islam and Religious Judaism subs.
and the (militant) Atheism subs are up to five times larger.
Reddit as operated out of San Francisco has an agenda.
khamul7779@reddit
You seem to be conflating leftists with liberals.
Dear_Bluebird8809@reddit
khamul7779@reddit
Then why did you respond? Whine somewhere else.
aworldwithoutshrimp@reddit
They always do
PulIthEld@reddit
big lol
eyehateredd1t2@reddit
really is
aworldwithoutshrimp@reddit
Nope. It's liberal, not left.
eyehateredd1t2@reddit
that's the same thing
aworldwithoutshrimp@reddit
It isn't. Liberalism runs from rjghtwing to center. Maybe center left if you count social democrats. Leftists are left of capitalism. Liberals still believe capitalism is a worthwhile economic model. Liberals don't represent us.
eyehateredd1t2@reddit
when you say 'us' who are you referring to
aworldwithoutshrimp@reddit
Leftists. People, especially Americans who do not typically understand the concept of leftwing politics, tend to belive that someone on the left is represented by a democrat, for instance, because they are used to rightwing propaganda telling them that liberals are leftists.
eyehateredd1t2@reddit
fair enough, you learn something new everyday, i've googled the difference, your point stands
Toking22@reddit
LOL this is the take of the century.
stibbaretihw@reddit
Is your goal to have healthy political discussions or just another Reddit type website with a more balanced demographic? Reddit's userbase and activity clears any alternative by a significant margin, except for Quora, which impressively stacks up to about over half of Reddit's activity and userbase size. Aside from that, you might need to cherry-pick your subreddits. Quora spaces can be a good place to hangout depending on the topics.
Reddit will always represent a more histrionic, hyperbolic version of just about any viewpoint because so many people that use it are *chronically* online - they have unlimited free time and no income - lots of teenagers, NEETs, and people that allow themselves very limited exposure with the outside world and viewpoints that disagree with them. They often don't understand how unusual their viewpoints are because they surround themselves with people that think like they do.
With that said, Reddit is a massive site that serves as a host to a myriad of communities with different views and agendas, there's . I suppose the large subreddits skew more left-wing because Reddit as a whole skews towards the high school/college age demographic and towards people from more upper-middle class suburbanite backgrounds.
The problem I often see with conservatives on Reddit is they adopt this automatic victim mentality that is really off-putting and makes everything they say afterwards feel like defensive chest-beating. The tone of conservative posts/comments can impact a lot of how people upvote/downvote or reply to you. If you come into a discussion with a chip on your shoulder and assume how other people feel, people pick up on that and will feel more compelled to react to it in a negative way. The voting format creates this emotional-based system where some of the most logical arguments can get downvoted simply because someone didn't like your choice of words, you, or is just having a bad day.
Just look at this post as an example, people downvoted you because they didn't like your question. It is what it is but if you don't go with the hive mind of the actual thread and subreddit, you will be downvoted, silenced, or banned. Reddit is NOT the place to discuss politics if you are looking to have an authentic, *healthy*, serious conversations.
dinoseen@reddit
In this case people are probably downvoting because it presupposes an obviously bullshit narrative as true.
Deep-Weakness8853@reddit
how can you type this out seriously. you are willing to make the blanket claim that conservative comments are only ever mass downvoted because the ideas in them are an "obviously bullshit narrative?" It sure sounds like said narrative is just views you don't agree with. Seriously look at that statement and tell me you don't live in an echo chamber.
DangerPencil@reddit
What's kicked my ass about reddit is that I've been banned from certain communities (like video game subreddits) that aren't about politics at all simply for stating that posts that are inherently politically divisive should be removed, since they aren't technically related to the subreddit and will cause unrelated strife. I get banned and those posts stay up.
So, the reason I came to reddit in the first place is gone, and now I'm being algorithmed into all of these political posts that I never wanted any part of.
I'm about 5 minutes from uninstalling, lol.
SilentWraith5@reddit
It's because the moderators are primarily young, jobless, liberal, and atheist. They have started banning people who disagree with them years ago and it's only gotten worse. That's also why Reddit looks primarily like an echo chamber, because any comments that disagree with these viewpoints get downvoted to oblivioin or removed by mods. It won't get any better unless Reddit itself steps in and balances out the moderator teams, which won't happen because they don't care.
DangerPencil@reddit
Facts
moizeus@reddit
I said Avowed failed cause it was woke on R/pcgaming and got banned. Lol
PhoenixShredds@reddit
I agree with the majority of your comment, but I think the assumption that conservatives are coming in with a victim mentality is a bit off the mark. I've seen very moderate and thoughtful comments getting downvoted and silenced for merely not being part of the liberal echo chamber of reddit.
The reality is the demographic is going to lean liberal because it's young.
SilentWraith5@reddit
I agree, i've also seen conservative comments downvoted for simply asking questions. The demographic leans liberal because it's young but primarily because the moderators are primarily young, atheist, and liberal.
Akidd196@reddit
Mostly true.
prankster999@reddit
So basically losers... Got it.
Yeah, this week on Reddit has been... something.
Dismal_Chapter9517@reddit
Us normies call what you described an “echo chamber”. And yes Reddit is one of the biggest echo chambers on the internet. Twitter used to be king, but once Reddit was bought it was no longer a free speech platform, and as much as people want to claim X/twitter is, it’s not. It’s not as hyperbolic and strange as it used to be but on X you have to pay to be seen and heard, meaning it’s quite literally the opposite of free speech fundamentally. Tbh anyone with some savvy internet and coding skills is overlooking a huge opportunity to make an unbiased, non-echo chamber version of Reddit and X in one. But the problem is greed circumvents freedom and common logic so it most likely would not happen with all the competition. Someone needs to clone Reddit, and then allow more freedom to the platform like how it was pre-2020.
ApprehensiveLaw2672@reddit
If a social platform allows the truth to be told and becomes dominated by right-wingers, the high finance will demonize it and try to take it down or they buy it and censor away the truth.
prankster999@reddit
Problem is that someone has to pay for infrastructure and maintenance.
Reddit will always be a cess-pitt and “echo chamber” because you need to accommodate for advertiser demands, and therefore appease the lowest possible common denominator. Therefore you have to be "politically correct".
Elon Musk had the right idea, and this is why social media needs to be paid for.
The following is a really good post (by another Reddit users) in terms of what it takes to build a "financially sustainable" Reddit alternative.
Blue Dwarf, What Cohost and Voat Look Like when They are Done Right : r/RedditAlternatives
Dismal_Chapter9517@reddit
Very true. Wikipedia does it via donations. I get advertiser demands but tbh since when does the greater portion of society need to bow to corporate influence? It’s not enough they track and monitor what we buy but why does our grassroots commentary in society (essentially conversations like this) need to be overlorded by corporations out to make more and more while they charge us more and more. At some point society is going to have to control this as the state of culture especially in America for decades has been edging closer and closer to corpratocracy. And that truly is the sign and economic system that allows to willingly accept fascism as a rule of society (outside the over-use of the word currently and modernly in politics). True Italian fascism used this same system to pollute politics as we are slowly seeing in America. Business is supposed to be for product and service offerings, not to dictate what’s considered art or media. I digress, and truly agree with your response. I’ll be checking out the link now 🙏
poofypie384@reddit
agree x 1,000,000. interestingly some have tried and the large corps (in cahoots with their government partners) actually hack and sabotage the small competition. take a look at tiktok for example, everyone and their mum gunning for them because they wipe the competition for efficiency, freedom of expression and give a voice to those who, on another platform, would be aglorithm-bombed
Dismal_Chapter9517@reddit
This thread was very eye opening thanks again
b37478482564@reddit
I disagree that the conservatives are just here to play “victims”. I really like the Austrian economics subreddit and yet these days it’s plagued with left wingers that don’t understand the concept and continuously push their beliefs forwards about why maximum government intervention is better, post memes about how the right wing leads to doom etc etc.
the fact is, Austrian economics is a school of economic thought and people who subscribe to it generally have a good idea of what it is and how it works in addition to interesting discussions surrounding it and sometimes I feel like it’s been ruined by left wingers with 0 logical thoughts and just feelings who play victim themselves by suggesting that people who believe in Austrian economics only bc they’re wealthy.
Delicious_Ease2595@reddit
Reddit is astroturfed, censored and with so much echo chamber. It's bad.
scarletphantom@reddit
flaired users only
Pumpkin_Escobar_54@reddit
You are delusional.
InterestStings@reddit
Opens Reddit to see if its common to put bell peppers in meatloaf, sees even food discussion are people celebrating the death of conservatives.
Center-left and consider myself pretty objective, and the left is a lot more perpetually online and toxic. At least a chunk of conservatives I've talked to will debate. The closest I've seen when someone who is moderate engages on sites like Reddit is dismissive condescension,personal attacks, or random humor. Thay are like the Republicans in the late 90s. How the heck did it change up like that?
paroxysmalpavement@reddit
I wasn't aware KotakuInAction was left-wing. You seem to spend a lot of time in political subs. I don't recognize all of them but a lot of them look specifically left leaning. Then you're confused why Reddit seems left-wing. Sure.
PontiniY@reddit
Most gaming subreddits are controlled by pink-haired they/thems. I got banned by r/gaming for asking why their avatar was rainbow coloured during Veterans Month.
Charmandzard@reddit
not sure if this is a bot but i was searching this as well and i will add it’s almost impossible to find non hard left slanted subreddits. honestly most of the internet has become an echo chamber that rejects any thoughts or opinions that don’t match with the general liberal ideology. i’m not saying it’s some kind of large conspiracy, i just think the internet is mostly younger people and younger people on average are left leaning and the algorithms are built to promote media that its audience already agree with because they’re scared any friction will deter users. in turn those folks feel more secure in their ideology and never have to question their opinions. vicious cycle.
paroxysmalpavement@reddit
Sure, I'm sure amiugly is hard left. Thanks for the laugh, kid. I needed it.
captwaffle1@reddit
I don’t care that this is old- looking or a Reddit alternative and you are crazy if you think Reddit isn’t SUPER left. If you think it’s “center” you are reeeealy far left and might not realize it.
Deep-Courage-1661@reddit
It's not political opinion that's not somebody else's it's those of you on the left that refuse to listen to somebody else's opinion without just simply attacking that's all you guys do attack attack it's not working anymore
NeonVoidx@reddit
ys because all the non political subs and content on reddit arent extremely left leaning... as he literally just explained
Street_Example2020@reddit
or you could not be rude and jump to conclusions. if you cared about anything at all worth any of us upvoting you'd have asked him questions.
paroxysmalpavement@reddit
Who cares about getting upvotes?
It's a bad faith necro response to a comment I barely remember making and one I don't feel particularly strong about. I'm here for reddit alternatives, not pretending things are a problem on reddit just because some people pretend they're unavoidable when they're not. I spend most my time on here looking at moves and cats. What questions do I need to ask when I can see my own feed and what works with my own eyes?
Luxferro@reddit
I ended up here looking for an alternative as well, or just unsubbing from all the financial and investing subs. None of the subs are being moderated probably with exception to Bogleheads.
I wish Musk would buy Reddit 😂
Cr4mwell@reddit
Yeah, youths lean left until they realize what life is really like. Then they become more conservative.
-DarkIdeals-@reddit
Really? A sub whose stated goal is "everyday hating on men" isn't left wing? I don't know of any feminist misandrists on the right so not sure why you're thinking the sky being blue is odd.
And Kotaku has always been a far left outlet, again pretty well known.
ApprehensiveLaw2672@reddit
We would only need two small pro-right-wing threads out of a million radical left-wing threads for you to make that "argument". Based on that logic, there cannot be "white privilege" since there are several movements that are counter to that. Well, that is a fact that there is no such thing but your logic is still very bad.
Clearly Reddit is a left-wing pipeline. I mean the top political are pushing typical left-wing lies and cherry picked news, and the moderators are radical and biased Marxists. One gets down voted to oblivion for just stating a fact like: "Men are physically stronger than women" etc. In one case someone said "Elon never tweeted this" about a fake tweet and the person got down voted massively even when he was right but a commenter saying "who cares" replying to it got many likes...This kind of non-nonsensical truth denying and envious malevolent behavior is seen in all the top Reddit threads. (to the polarized Redditors: I don't even like Elon).
If you make a completely reasonable non-threatening comment that is against the agenda, you will get a community note for hate speech even if you did not even specify who you are talking about. But of course, Reddit's own guidelines do not say you can't spread hate towards "majorities". This is a very common non-logical claim that left-wingers push from top down (so it is not cherry picking to bring this up. It is a systemic problem that should be solved to get a bit closer to equality). They seem to think that somehow being part of majority gives one a shield against hateful speech and physical violence. In fact, when you spread hate towards a majority, you spread hate towards more people. Conveniently their own logic does not ably in those countries or cities were whites are a minority. Also, globally whites are a minority group and Reddit is global. How about not allowing promotion of violence against any group like many right-wing movements want? That is too much to ask to a overly privileged left-winger who gets all the institutional support from the high finance.
There are many subs about denying or justifying the tens of millions innocents plundered and murdered by Communists and Bolsheviks, but all the subs in support of National Socialism or Fascism are banned. Clearly the high finance is controlling Reddit. Marxism is the protective angel of Capitalism. That is why the whole high finance elite supports Marxism. They only attack against those nationalist groups (so called "capitalists") who they see as a threat to the actual capitalists system.
paroxysmalpavement@reddit
I don't know what you're on about but I'm not interested. I'm guessing concern trolling on an account that keeps having things deleted. I'm too lazy to dig and it sounds really boring.
RightWng-Progrssive@reddit
Jesus, bro, y'all leftists are pathetic
frodo_swaggins233@reddit
This is kind of wild. Are you denying that Reddit leans quite left? I wouldn't say naming a few extreme counterexamples is a great argument against that idea. If anything, the fact that this is the top voted comment illustrates it even more lol.
mourinho_jose@reddit
Do leftists support misandry? Why would leftists be for misandry?
paroxysmalpavement@reddit
I can't read either. Are we secretly related?
Hello new account. You have to get better at the rage bait. I hope you're at least getting paid because it would be sad otherwise.
BlazeAlt@reddit
Thanks for sharing
numbersthen0987431@reddit
Have you checked out GenZ lately? Go have fun
Clay-Footed@reddit
All my gen z friends are conservative
LordCaptain@reddit
Reddit is centre. It's just America is far to the right compared to most countries. Since there is a large Canadian and European presence on reddit Americans think it's far left.
Potential-Flow-1547@reddit
You are a fucking idiot if you think reddit is "center".
itsthooor@reddit
I am not American and I can confirm reddit is hella far-left… Multiple subreddits are "invaded" with far-left posts and mods… Especially big 1% subreddits… And if you are not following their ideology, you’re getting banned from the subreddit.
Difficult-Lawyer1776@reddit
Isn't that the core tenant of cancel culture?
ApprehensiveLaw2672@reddit
Here’s a small list of rights, policies, or practices that women have in the west that men do not:. Left-wingers systematically hide this or lie about them.
Reproductive rights (e.g., access to abortion).
Legal protections under the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA). (Statistically the most violent couples are BI and Lesbian female couples, and in hetero couples, women commit way more one sided violence towards men than other around (15% compared to 35% and in around 50% of the cases both are to blame). Even if that stat was reversed, that does not justify poor treatment and judging of innocent male victims men nor the male hate that these organisations systematically spread.
Maternity leave policies often more generous than paternity leave.
Health insurance coverage for women-specific care (e.g., mammograms, prenatal care).
Title IX protections for women in education and athletics.
Exemption from Selective Service (military draft).
Favorable outcomes in child custody cases. (there are cases where a bad-shit crazy mother has received custody and then killed her children, but not outcry from the system about this)
More frequently awarded alimony and child support.
Specific social welfare programs (e.g., WIC).
Gender-specific scholarships and grants. (Justifying a worse treatment of an innocent man just because men on average are making more money (though women control more money in USA than men according to FED study), is a quilt by association logical fallacy. If you are to use that poor logic, then why not take in to consideration all the variables that affect how well one a person succeed and not just some? A beautiful woman can make way more money than the average man just by taking pictures of herself and doors magically open to her, but somehow she is not privileged but a blind sick disabled man, who lost everything because of false DA claims were made against him and who is living under a bridge, is....
Affirmative action and DEI initiatives benefiting women.
Gender quotas in leadership roles or board positions.
Special funding and grant preferences for women-owned businesses.
Male infant circumcision performed without consent while female genital cutting is prohibited
Can promote violence towards men like in feminist run Jezebel article about pushing your husband and many other articles like them. Since none of the institutions talk about this or do anything about it, it is a systematic problem.
smaller punishment of the same crime and less likely to be punished when there is the same amount of evidence.
Easier physical test for female fire-fighter candidates (or lowered standard for everyone so that more women pass the test)
and dozens more.
The only special right that men have in the western world (that I'm aware of) is that men can be without a shirt on at public spaces. This is a million times smaller right than the ones women have listed above. Though if a man get completely naked on public, they will get slammed face first on the ground by cops and get a severe punishment by the law too, unlike with women. One should not be able to choose between equality or equity when it suits one one selfish needs like women currently can do.
Though our leaders do not care at all about women. They are the reason why women are so unhappy and unsafe today in the west. They are just using women to further their own cause.
khamul7779@reddit
Reddit is not far left, at all. It is a liberal haven, for the most part. Leftist ideas are not widely supported on mainstream subs.
ApprehensiveLaw2672@reddit
To show you are unbiased, bring up some major things that left-wingers systematically lie about because the truth is not on their side.
And I add that not every right-winger out of the billions there are tell the truth, but certain right-wing individual (who are many) do tell the truth. The truth is with the right.
Ancient-Web4346@reddit
Downvoters have no idea what these words mean lmao
khamul7779@reddit
Yeah, apparently this is controversial lmao
PulIthEld@reddit
This is a huge lie you tell yourself.
LeftHand-Inhales@reddit
The entire world is centered around America, though. We are the standard. For example, we aren’t watching your elections. The world watches ours. The world consumes our entertainment & media, follows our culture, & keeps up to date with our politics.
TheConquistaa@reddit
Have you heard about international observers? Or the amount of prime-time on news TVs is all that matters in an election.
Not to mention everything America does outside of politics which is not part of the standard (traffic signs, temperature measurement, distance measurement, weight measurement etc.)
No, America is not the standard. It's just an overrated TV star.
LeftHand-Inhales@reddit
Name a single country with more global influence, & we will go from there.
khamul7779@reddit
No single country has to have greater influence than America for their statement to be true. We aren't the standard, at all.
LeftHand-Inhales@reddit
Okay, so… you’re agreeing that America has more global influence than any other country, while also disagreeing that the US is the center of the world?
khamul7779@reddit
Yes, America has more influence than most countries in many aspects. No, that doesn't make the US the center of the world (disgustingly arrogant lmao), nor does that make it the standard by any means, which was the actual claim.
LeftHand-Inhales@reddit
America has bases in everyone else’s country yes?
TheConquistaa@reddit
That's what I said, it's an overrated TV star
Lanchettes@reddit
I’m hoping that you are a teenager with a statement like that. As a European I can say that I don’t live in a bubble and your statement says more about you guys and your education system than it does about us. We are interested in America, but also in everywhere else. You lack perspective which undermines understanding.
LeftHand-Inhales@reddit
American bases are in everyone’s country, supporting their economy. Our military is so effective & large that many European countries can afford to invest in free healthcare since they don’t require a strong military force. If something happens, America is there for you. You rely on us, consume our entertainment, look to us in times of need, obsess over our culture & have the audacity to pretend it’s an ignorant statement. If America didn’t exist, you would currently be under German rule. We ARE the glue that holds the world together, son.
itsthooor@reddit
Sad, but true. America has control everywhere… And I hate it.
LeftHand-Inhales@reddit
Absolutely, it is an objective, measurable truth. I am not lacking perspective, as the other guy suggested, it is just the reality of it. Also, I do sympathize with you on that, & I don’t blame you for hating it. We have done so many messed up things, & given our global position, it would be impossible to say we leveraged that for the greater good. If we were going to overstep as we have, the least we could’ve done is go above & beyond for everyone.
That said, we have done some good things, & beyond that, it could be far worse with Russia or China being in that center-stage position.
Toking22@reddit
This is a terrible take. Reddit is EXTREMELY far left, save some select subs
Any of the main news or political subs are heavily censored to any opposing view and let extreme hatred and vile get spewed from the left about the right. There’s a reason it’s called an echo chamber or hive mind.
America as a whole can only be viewed as right wing if you’re looking at it through the lens of a free market and capitalism. Outside of that, it’s remained fairly center.
Jumpy_Lavishness_533@reddit
I am from Scandinavia and reddit is really, really left oriented.
I've known people getting banned for discussion right wing politic.
ThorBrag@reddit
no Reddit is alt left, people on here unironically think capitalism is evil and abortion should be legal untill the week before birth.
unicorn_security@reddit
Neither of those things is remotely true. Pretending that they are because your particular niche needs are being catered to is problematic.
vdw9012@reddit
You might want to check out Jyst ai, it's still pretty new but it's trying to bring back that "old Reddit" vibe where you can actually have a mix of viewpoints without everything being super polarized or heavily censored. It's not a right-wing echo chamber either; it feels more balanced and focused on good discussion.
Independent_Loquat60@reddit
I love how most of the comments are argumentative and almost prove the point of his question. Everyone just keeps getting baited into what politicians and billionaires planned long ago. Push a narrative that Democrats are extreme woke cancel culture leftist trans liberals and Republicans are mostly racist anti abortion cry baby trump elon loving far-conservatives. And it keeps feeding into itself endlessly. You'd be surprised how many people are in the middle and hate both sides now. Media and social platforms succeeded at making people hate each other more, while the elite laugh at the fight and line their pockets. Wouldn't it be incredible if we started a movement that changed the narrative. We all went independent. You'd be surprised how much people in each party don't believe in much of what it stands for
angry_dingo@reddit
start muting liberal subreddits. That's what I do.
Acceptable-Sky1575@reddit
This is what I've been doing. My mute list is looooong now. But there's no end to liberal shitposting no matter which sub you look at. I wish the Reddit API included the mute methods so I could mute subs in bulk.
dinosaurninja@reddit
Bro I think I'm at 100+ subs soon...
Kesilisms@reddit
I just got banned from r/pics for “participating in r/trump” and it was automated by a bot. WTF is happening?
Mediocre-Bug8265@reddit
Maybe start a petition for Elon to buy Reddit (Hope this doesn't get me banned)
ieatlotsoftoast@reddit
It's also very woke. Hard to find any alternatives. On the plus side, Donald Trump has another 4 years
Ordinary-Budget7754@reddit
Good question
TinyZoro@reddit
Reddit is not left wing. Your political worldview is very skewed. It’s liberal at best.
PulIthEld@reddit
Reddit is extremely left wing.
TinyZoro@reddit
Give me one example of that. It is liberal. It is Democrat. It is not left wing. It is not anti NATO. It is not anti western hegemony. It is not in favour of governments nationalising transport, energy, communications. You live in a country that has an extremely right wing political window. You have no left wing parties that are part of your political discourse.
smellslikekitty@reddit
People like you are exactly why posts like these are created. You literally proved OPs point.
I'm actually looking for an alternative as well. People like you are insane to be around on social media.
TinyZoro@reddit
Was a very simple question. Can you provide an example of a left wing not liberal bias?
PulIthEld@reddit
In America left wing means you are voting Blue in the election, and right wing means the opposite. That is the context of the discussion. If you want to use other definitions, you are going to come to meaningless disagreements such as this.
TinyZoro@reddit
Do you understand that in no other European nation would the Democrats be considered left wing. Left of center at best, but basically centrist.
You have a one party state that delivers for corporations and American empire. They deliberately spend all their time talking about transsexuals and guns and immigrants and abortion because these are of no importance to either side other than to play out the fantasy of a two party system.
ApprehensiveLaw2672@reddit
Democrats spread purposefully divisive and corrosive Marxist propaganda, while the Republicans are part of the the controlled opposition. They are led by the same small group of people. It is common for the top corrupt billionaires to fund "both sides". Certain right-wing movements tell the truth but their voice is not allowed to be heard on Reddit or most other social platform or in the political stage. Marxism is the protective angel of capitalism. That is why the whole international finance spreads and support Marxism.
TinyZoro@reddit
Can you give an example of this Marxist propaganda spread by Democrats? Or is that unfair?
ApprehensiveLaw2672@reddit
Using of minorities and women as a tool for power is what the Marxists back in the day and today do. The first women marches were held in Bolshevik Russia and the Trans-ideology comes from Germany post WW1. This Marxist elite has themselves destroyed the middle-east because these countries were not in the international bankers usury-system and for oil and other resources. This is also the same global elite that dominated the Trans-Atlantic slave trade.
Women are getting more unhappy and unsafe because of Marxists policies. Sweden, for example, used to be very safe back in the 70s, but no it is not any more. I have seen people here in Reddit make excuses for it like "better reporting system" but that cannot explain the 1800% increase. Some Redditors compare cherry picked statistics from a war torn country or left-wing controlled state/city to Sweden, but less bad is not good and just because things are not as bad in Sweden (at least yet), that does not mean the Swedish people are not betrayed nor that things could not be improved....These kind of elementary level fallacies and arguments are very common in Left-wing pipeline called Reddit. Also, there are left-wing politicians who have had to openly admit the problem when confronted and in attempt to safe face. Also, video evidence proves a causal link about these heinous crimes that happen even in public spaces. These were unheard of just decades before. Leftists institutionally betray women.
Bolsheviks and communists murdered tens of millions in Russia, Ukraine (Holodomor) and in many other countries and put millions more doing force labor to enrich themselves. Lenin was one of the riches person on earth back when he was alive. One of the things they did to women was force her to sit on an ant nest naked and get eaten alive.
Democrats get butt-hurt when someone mentions how racist and hateful the Bolshevik/communist leaders and Karl Marx was. Right-wingers, for the most part, at least denounce radical movements. Many of the movements the average right-wingers denounce were/are actually not even bad and the rest were/are the expected counter reaction to what leftists have done, so the worse they are, the more it is a case against left-wingers own politics. Because of the international finance's propaganda, almost everyone thinks these certain right-wing movements are bad. Publicly supporting them would get you cancelled, banned and persecuted by the whole system.
TinyZoro@reddit
An enormous wall of text and no real explanation of a link between democrats and Marxism other than manipulation of women and minorities apparently. I have no doubt you’re sincere in your beliefs but they are ludicrous.
The democrats are one side of the business party that runs America. The republicans are the other. They are not left wing in the slightest. Both sides deliberately engage in culture wars to keep people like you upset and controllable. Otherwise you might wonder why you work all your life and have nothing to show for it. Marx got it. If you actually bother find out what he understood about how capitalism works you’ll find absolutely nothing you can contradict.
ApprehensiveLaw2672@reddit
You can call my beliefs ludicrous but you can't actually make counter-arguments because I'm right and all the observations support what I say.
"Otherwise you might wonder why you work all your life and have nothing to show for it."
That is because we are under the usury-system / debt-system and money is based on nothing. There once was a leader who printed their own debt-free money and free his people from oppression but the high finance with the help of their Communists friends stopped him.
Marx and his teacher Moses Hess just happened to be very high ranked Freemasons, just like the capitalist elite. Marx just happened to have very close blood relation to the Rothschild. Unsurprisingly, the Bolsheviks and the communists were funded by the top capitalists and they plundered the workers and made them their slaves. Conveniently the system never uses the "it wasn't real..." argument is defend a right-wing movement.
Many write beautiful words in their books, but that does not mean they mean what they say.
HowAManAimS@reddit
Transsexual is outdated terminology. Most people use the term transgender (as an adjective not a noun).
PulIthEld@reddit
nobody cares
i_had_an_apostrophe@reddit
Are you actually insane? You’re saying this after the election period where ALL major and medium sized subreddits spammed nonstop Harris posts like r/pics?
khamul7779@reddit
You just proved their point. Harris isn't a leftist, she's a mainstream liberal, and not a particularly left leaning one at that.
PulIthEld@reddit
omg
i_had_an_apostrophe@reddit
sounds like "no true scotsman" to me
khamul7779@reddit
I'm not sure you understand what that phrase means.
i_had_an_apostrophe@reddit
it's a fair point because "leftist" was never defined initially and then changed
that's fine if your position is that she's a liberal, not a leftist, so this site is spammed with liberal propaganda
I'd consider some of her views quite leftist but that's fine if some think she doesn't holistically represent leftist views
bad_news_beartaria@reddit
yes, they are mentally ill
TinyZoro@reddit
Harris is not left wing. Harris is liberal at best although her history as a prosecutor was extremely right wing.
StreetWorldliness280@reddit
Lol.
Lmao, even.
TinyZoro@reddit
What do you consider left wing, seriously?
If it’s stuff about trans rights or some hot button culture wars nonsense that’s playing 24/7 in America then I don’t know what to say.
Left wing is seeing the Democrats as the biggest obstacle to meaningful progress in the US. Would you consider that a mainstream view on Reddit?
ForeignParamedic3714@reddit
You're just mentally ill and unaware how capitalism works
TinyZoro@reddit
That’s irrelevant to whether or not Reddit is left wing though.
ForeignParamedic3714@reddit
Your definition of leftist (Marxist accelerationist) is insanely narrow.
TinyZoro@reddit
Accelerationist means wanting the Republicans to win. Thinking the Democrats are left wing is simply not true outside the US.
Vozka@reddit
European here, the Dems are economically right wing, but they absolutely are socially left. Some of the "culture wars" issues are very far out of the mainstream here.
ForeignParamedic3714@reddit
Not true at all, sindicalist movements in south america supported Biden.
Again, Marx doesn't have a monopoly on egalitarianism. For one he never worked a day in his life and I don't think his work is for the best interest of the working class.
TinyZoro@reddit
I’m a middle aged business owner. You can think of me however you like. But the Democrats are a pro corporate business party which funds the never ending war machine that is the US. It is considered left wing in America because of deliberate wedge culture wars designed to keep people distracted from the real money and power moving things, who are always in power.
Delicious_Ease2595@reddit
Reddit is mostly American and anti-right wing.
TinyZoro@reddit
It’s liberal. It’s not left wing. Is does not see the Democrats as an obstacle to reform of the relationship between capital and the working class.
Delicious_Ease2595@reddit
Censored and biased.
idlefritz@reddit
When you look at the specific issues “anti right wing” makes more sense and describes the majority.
elvee68@reddit
Left Wing? No that's being polite. More like TDS. Leading up to the election I had to mute a whole slew of subs because almost every post had some sort of reference to Trump and Orange Bad Man. The most unbiased platform now is X and the only reason why the left will say not true is because they can't control it like they used to.
PulIthEld@reddit
Twitter's layout is fucking trash. You have to be popular for anyone to see your posts.
czareson_csn@reddit
my main issue with it.
LaserGecko@reddit
Facts have a known liberal, "left wing" slant.
Reality disproves flat earth, a global flood, creationism, "the perfect Word of God", trickle down economics, the USA Civil War being caused by anything other than slavery, the "stolen" election, Trump not being a Coastal Elite Pedophile who shits in gold leaved bathrooms, etc.
Educational_Fox_9840@reddit
Lmao only a child would assume anyone who leans right is a retarded flat earther who loves slaves (even though that was a Democrat thing at the time). Some people just really liked the world in the 90s when free speech was actually a thing. You wanna be a gay clown pedo that supports Hamas (even though they hate lgbtq+etc) but say anyone that hates the Jews is a devil and cancel their lives? Like, I hate all sides, but I just can't for a second take any of that shit seriously. A bunch of children with nothing better to do than bitch and complain on the Internet because they had shitty parents that don't love them. I came here to get an actual answer and just got my opinion validated even more.
LaserGecko@reddit
You apparently cannot separate "party name" and "ideology".
The people called "Democrats" were conservatives at the time.
You literally have no idea what "conservative" means, so go back to bed until you get can understand the very, very basics of politics.
ApprehensiveLaw2672@reddit
Nice cherry picking. Everyone who does not support the world's worst mass-murderers, Bolsheviks and communists, propaganda, are labeled as right-wingers. This group consist all kind of people. Some of them tell the truth and are good people while others are wrong or insane or what not and you cherry picked what this other groups have said. There are no left-wing groups that tell the truth.
Showing the official FBI crime stats will get you banned because the truth does not fit the leftists narrative.
Talking about the biggest threat women face in the west will get you banned. You want all those horrible videos were bad things happen even in in day light hidden, don't you? This did not happen some decades before.
Upsideoutstanding@reddit
I was/am sick of the politics on reddit. I feel like an army of professionals post bullshit incendiary political posts that crowd my feed. I'm not even subscribed to these shit posts. One after another I see the join button on political posts as if reddit wants to indoctrinat me in to being a left wing socialist. I keep down voting them, blocking them and even muting them.... reddit just keeps feeding it to me. WHY!!!
pat95hudd@reddit
Semantics semantics semantics. We all know what people mean and what Reddit is. Can we all just stop gas lighting please
ApprehensiveLaw2672@reddit
Yes. Reddit is a left-wing pipeline. Only the narrative of the system, high finance, is supported. The mods are biased left-wingers, and the top suggested political threads are all pushing left-wing BS.
STylerMLmusic@reddit
The world is left leaning big guy. Go to whatever subreddits interest you.
Zealousideal_Owl2388@reddit
The world is not at all left wing. The world leans to the right. Reddit is a bubble of neck-bearded basement dwelling obese communists
PulIthEld@reddit
hahaha
SeyJeez@reddit
Do you really say that after the current election in the US and after what’s going on in a lot of Europe and other places?
unicorn_security@reddit
I think most people want human rights. Most governments value private interests over the people.
WorldOfTheWay@reddit
I can barely ask a question on Reddit without being accused of being a troll. Every time I turn around, there is a new microaggression that I could be doing: "Did you just assume wind has a speed? That's MisGretaThunberging". "Did you mention that you sat down? No povertyableism here." I can't ask any questions or have any original thoughts. All I can do is reply to other people, who are on the left, so they don't ask the wrong questions.
Jumpy_Lavishness_533@reddit
Right wingers are being hunted with pitchforks and ban hammers, so you won't really see them here.
People who aren't leftist tends to not go into political discussions, as it's pretty easy to gain a ban from this if you are having the wrong opinion.
Such place doesn't really exist in the modern world.
oh-bee@reddit
Yes, Twitter, the website that got Trump elected, is notoriously neutral.
StrangerEddy@reddit
It’s so bad here and way left leaning. I don’t mind a mix but the left here piles on ruthlessly and then the left wing moderators ban and mute anyone they don’t agree with. It happened to me. They claimed I was spreading misinformation which is a term for anything they don’t agree with. I’ll get banned for this too. Censorship is real.
idontmakeaccount123@reddit
and because I'm tired of stupidity, I could gain a lot of karma by pretending to be a left-wing Redditor while supporting a Redditor who shows massive double standards and nonsense. I'm tired of putting on a mask and acting like one of them. F**k that.
idontmakeaccount123@reddit
Yeah, ironically, Redditors are the ones who hate censorship, but they also support it. It just makes me go "What...?" Even if you search Google for 'why Reddit supports censorship,' you can find recent comments talking about how Reddit is so far left-wing. and I ended up finding out that X (aka Twitter) is freer than Reddit. It's like leftists started moving to Reddit or new social media platforms, while X started gaining more right-wing supporters. Good riddance.
DickSemen@reddit
Fuck off with your reddit is left wing horse shit.
Go to kiwifarms and hang out with your Nazi kindred spirits.
Away_Cellist5570@reddit
lol wtf is wrong with you
Altruistic-Dot8785@reddit
nice name
weatherinfo@reddit
Threadline allows discussions of both.
threadlineco.wixsite.com/threadline
PuddingFeeling907@reddit
There’s https://sh.itjust.works & https://lemmy.libertarianfellowship.org
LeftHand-Inhales@reddit
I don’t use much social media, I’m barely on here. X is by far the most unbiased source out there
dinoseen@reddit
The same platform that censors the word "cisgender" and gives actual neo-nazis free reign? Any modicum of unbiased-ness that remains is unintentional, I assure you.
LeftHand-Inhales@reddit
You’ll have to forgive that your assurance means nothing to me. Censoring a slur doesn’t make someone unbiased, “cis” should literally never be said. The gender cosplayers are trying to force people to deny reality so they can have their delusions affirmed, I have zero issue with “cis” not being allowed because it’s redundant & irrelevant. The severely mentally ill vocal minority has found a way to label normal everyday people with a strange slur. If you want to hear people say cis then stay on Reddit all the time, the most over-moderated & biased platform on the internet.
Also, send a link dude? Show me those Nazis that are given free reign?
dinoseen@reddit
You are not living in reality. Please wake up for you own good.
idontmakeaccount123@reddit
This is exactly the reason I was searching for..
Phanphanforfor@reddit
reddit is very right wing
idontmakeaccount123@reddit
no..
Duke_Nicetius@reddit
Best joke of the day
Daekar3@reddit
Reddit is just a single umbrella that provides services like the old discussion forums, there's nothing special about it. Find the forums for the topic you want to discuss.
Alternatively, Discord has started to be the real replacement for reddit for folks who care about particular topics, and they have the bonus that the moderators are usually not so heavy handed and controlling as reddit.
Duke_Nicetius@reddit
Discord is not so good for topic discussions because it's real time wall of chat. I personally found it too exhausted, you can't log in once a day and answer.
Slipslopglipglop@reddit
This is the exact reason I am searching for an alternative
mikecngan@reddit
Go outside
mcmircle@reddit
There are plenty of right wingers everywhere. But you don’t know about all the subs you haven’t been to.
spooklemon@reddit
Reddit is not left-wing.
Southbysouthwestt@reddit
Reddit used to be like that but the woke mind virus does what it does and corrupts everything. I too would like to find something better than Reddit. Basically Reddit from 10 years ago.
Melodic-Status-3337@reddit
i am right wing
snow_cool@reddit
We need an uncensored reddit alternative. Either using X or ask Elon to make a reddit alternative?
azssf@reddit
I picked up an /s for you. Found it on the ground, must have fallen off the sentence.
snow_cool@reddit
Why? Would you rather have a leftist censored twitter just like reddit is?
Torgo582@reddit
Overly left-wing? HERE? I've seen many more comments and posts from America-hating Trump supporters than from sane, decent people.
Atgblue1st@reddit
Not gonna find it unfortunately. I thought I had found it with Rpghq but they turned out to be too extreme, albeit from an effort to push back against the left leaning social medias.
Conservatives are the silent majority because they tend to not be the ones always online, the ones less interested in social media, basically the ones with more of a meaningful IRL life.
TheSpecialEdward@reddit
Ifunny. Its kinda right leaning but free speech reigns
MellowDCC@reddit
No. There's others. But from my short usage of them it's almost identical as far as ultra TDS nuts
BillWeld@reddit
X. @reddit_lies is a hoot.
Delicious_Ease2595@reddit
There are few Lemmy instances that try to be a mix of both. But you need to look them like self-hosted alternative like old forums.
OwenEverbinde@reddit
I mean, there is a Facebook group called Controversial Political Memes for Anti-Establishment Human Beings that is a contentious mix of right-wingers, Marxist-Leninists, anarchists, and liberals -- all ripping into at each other.
But you have to keep in mind that the mod team there is forever-undermanned, and can't always respond quickly to the deluge of people wishing death on each other and threatening each other's families. So they are constantly getting in trouble with Facebook.
That's the real issue here.
It's possible to make an online group that includes right-wingers, left-wingers, moderates, and trolls.
It's also possible to make a group that includes right-wingers and moderates, but keeps out trolls and left-wingers.
It's also possible to make a group that includes left-wingers and moderates, but keeps out trolls and right-wingers.
But you cannot make a group that includes left-wingers, moderates, and right-wingers... while also keeping out the trolls.
That's the reason lemmy split into,
Blanket bans are just... easier on mod teams.