So many people were bootlicking Andy Yen in the Reddit thread. Where the commenters were attacking the poster for suggesting that he should resign from the ceo position for praising Donald Trump and then doubling down on the original statement using the official proton account.

  • @[email protected]
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    23 hours ago

    There are also several posts on whether or not Elon Musk did the Nazi salute (many of which are denying it) and being against women.

  • JaggedRobotPubes
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    1821 hours ago

    Reddit is a shell now, and they’re desperately filling it with AI.

    Old search results, mostly.

  • fxomt
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    241 day ago

    Reddit has always been right wing. I’ve seen the comments on us arabs on terrorist attacks. Fucking disgusting.

    • palordrolap
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      191 day ago

      Has it, or were there always pockets of all kinds of schools of thought? It seemed that way to me at least until Spez decided money was more important than anything else and a good chunk of the left-leaners decided they’d be better off elsewhere.

      That’s not a pejorative, by the way. I’m a left-leaner. And I, well, left.

      • fxomt
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        101 day ago

        I’d say i’m very left wing, too. But reddit always felt off to me, like i wasn’t meant to be there. I see why now, due to them saying this stuff about us when they can.

        but the majority are just conservatives/faux-liberals who’d sell you out and your race for their own convenience, anyway.

    • @[email protected]
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      91 day ago

      The racism is definitely there, you can scroll like three posts on trending and there it is again. One of the main reasons I left.

        • Zos_Kia
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          213 hours ago

          I’m not much of a reddit defender as i pretty much left this place same time as everybody else. However there’s always been a very clear trend in this kind of subreddits. Places like “noahgettheboat” or “iamapieceofshit” or “thatsinsane” systematically attract the worst kind of misanthropic low-lifes. People will see the most abject violence and laugh “haha he fucked around and found out” and of course this makes the most fascistic types feel at home.

          I don’t think they are representative of the overall slant of the community. Most places are progressive by default.

          • fxomt
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            112 hours ago

            Reddit is corporate, of course the FP will be sanitized. But the real disgusting part are the obscure or small subreddits.

            I’ve seen comments praise Europa as a “documentary” when it is just neo nazi propaganda. Lemmy has shortcomings but at least I can call this out without being downvoted to obscurity (TBF my main comment is pretty controversial but I think that’s just because how I worded it)

            • Zos_Kia
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              310 hours ago

              That’s why it’s important to heavily curate your corporate social media feed. If you see a community where this kind of comments are heavily upvoted just hide it and move on, there’s not that many and most of the niche interests are still relatively clean places.

    • @[email protected]
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      322 hours ago

      How is reddit right wing? Half of the posts on there bashes Trump, and praise Biden.

      I’m left wing, and it feels like most of reddit has become a left wing echo chamber

        • @droporain
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          31 day ago

          Riddle me this who do you think created reddit?

          • fxomt
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            31 day ago

            Aaron Swartz, I know. that does not change the fact that reddit has been racist for an incredibly long time.

              • fxomt
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                21 day ago

                I was mainly talking about my experience of racism on reddit, so the former.

                As for the latter the majority are liberals. I never spent time in big subs so I wouldn’t know

                • @droporain
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                  11 day ago

                  Please point me to the division of humanity that isn’t racist. Seriously is there any?

  • @[email protected]
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    101 day ago

    It’s a garbage site full of garbage people. Except for the people that I like on Reddit.