Here I’m going to criticize the right real quick.
The right is so boring. Jeeze. Always hysterical. They don’t like information that is rooted fact. So culturally hitlerist.
Reddit made Trump. Change my mind.
Really? Reddit? Above 4chan, FoxNews, Andrew Taint, Elon Musk and Twitter, Facebook, Tiktok and Instagram? Reddit???
Dont like that site either but this is absurd.
It’s schrodingers social media platform. Simultaneously had an impact on the zeitgeist and none at all. Objectively speaking it did. The thing about reddit is it’s the one that everybody uses but nobody talks about using. So people have developed this strange cognitive dissonance. Where reddit seems to exist but also did not… because it’s required that reddit was peoples secret hideout so it can’t have been too popular because that would ruin its historical cachet.
And now the phenomenon has morphed into some other strange beast. Where reddit is right now undeniably a popular platform so that dichotomy can’t hold up anymore. Now people refer to reddit in the third person while being redditors themselves. Lately it’s very obvious seeing on reddit the users referring to “reddit” as if they aren’t themselves a part of it. This post is a very example of the phenomenon. Conservatives screeching about a fictionalized “reddit” in their head that is some kind of far left caricature. A thing that never existed. This kind of thing cuts across all kinds of intersections. People using “reddit” as a label for whatever the other side of the argument they have in their head with zero self awareness that they are “reddit” themselves.
The reality is that reddit is a sibling platform to 4chan. You cannot separate /pol/ from 4chan any more than you can separate the far right parts from reddit. To say reddit is left wing is as delusional to say 4chan is left wing. One can point to the lgbt board on 4chan and say, “look it’s the lefties”. Some how that is more digestible than selectively picking some lgbt subreddits as proof that reddit is left echo chamber.
The venn diagram of reddit, 4chan, and any given social media platform is a lot closer than people want to admit. Because apparently reddit is a secret that everyone has but nobody wants to cop to. And it’s also everyone’s favorite strawman. Except when it comes time to talk about the impact its had on the world. Then poof it doesn’t exist at all.
All the actual left wing Redditors came here. The only thing left are the conservatives who don’t hide being conservatives, and the nazis pretending to be leftists to troll.
“All” is stretching it, but I think TikTok and the fediverse have definitely attracted significant portions of the progressive left.
What remains on reddit is mostly the liberal left and a few progressives in niche subs.
But if you go to a sub such as r/worldnews, it’s clear that there are no actual progressives commenting on that sub. They either got banned or they left.
Its gotta happen, right? Where the astroturfers are wasting time on friendly fire. Like two catfish meeting online?
All the actual left wing Redditors came here.
Lemmy has 0.005% (no, this is not a typo) of the active users. For every million Reddit users, there are 50 Lemmy users. To try and put this in perspective, if reddit was the entirely of the United States, Lemmy would be a town of ~17,000 people. Or about 1/10th of a square mile of Manhattan during the day.
Let’s not make up wild, inflated, statements like this . We aren’t even large enough to make up a single medium sized reddit community. Nevermind actually affect change on Reddit by way of user migration.
Wow, and it is everything I ever wanted it to be already. It is almost like having millions of users isn’t the good thing everyone wants it to be.
I wasn’t stating that it was.
Just stating the facts. In threads where delusioned Lemmy users act like they are having a big impact on Reddit.
We should focus on our community, how to grow it organically, how do we avoid bot hell? How do we foster something better? Instead of inflating egos and trying to stick it back at reddit, when we are but a blip.
That’s not true at all. I know a lot of lefties who still use reddit because their niche communities do not exist in any real capacity on lemmy
Can confirm. They’re the only communities I still engage with back there (namely cremposting and wetlanderhumor)
Reddit is not real life
Funny, neither is Conservatism
They won the election and made large gains with pretty much every demographic so in a very real sense, yes it is.
Conservatives are so mad that the world is left-leaning. The denial and self-delusion is almost sad to see.
They are so mad rn it’s funny.
I always upvote their posts in r/all so everyone can see what morons they are and laugh at them
Best to keep yourself informed so you can see all this madness and lack of empathy and critical thinking. They’ve been in their bubbles too long. 2025 polls show that they are becoming increasingly unpopular. They are so mad lol.
https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/favorability/donald-trump/
