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 is not our friend. But I guess us Lemmies already knew that.
But Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok are not our friend either. We need to consider the current social media landscape as right wing moving forward especially as more media moguls bow to Trump.
“The left is boring”
Damn, imagine picking a side based on your need to be entertained.
Good job reading only the first five words of a paragrah.
Edit: Well I’m a dumbass who got drunk and mixed up left and right. Oops.
The way I allways think about it when someone talks about politics being boring.
I compare it to a nuclear powerplant.
I don’t want to live next to an exciting nuclear powerplant, if I had to live next to a nuclear powerplant, I want it to be as boring and as dull as possible.
Same with politics, I don’t want an exciting government, I want a boring and predictable government.
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.
“They are completely uninterested in information that counters their views”
Oh, the irony.
It’s very strange to see that subreddit on the front page every day since the election.
Before it would only hit once in a blue moon. It’s too bad reddit did away with the up/downvote count a long time ago. To think you could actually get the real score on reddit. Now I have a feeling their algorithm is promoting certain posts like this one.
But that’s why we are on Lemmy/pixelfed/etc.
Maybe it’s a good thing because it might signal left leaning people leaving but I think it’s more likely they are seeing artificially boosted.
