Tl;dr: have there been any writings, surveys, or studies on the political composition of Reddit shifting in large communities?
I logged out of my reddit account a while ago but still browse some subreddits without logging in and have recently noticed more far-right rhetoric in general. I’m curious to know if others have seen this trend or, even better, wrote about it or documented it. Some examples I noticed were r/sweden and r/exmuslim. These are two communities I used to frequent often and both of them now have descended into more upvoted far-right rhetoric of the “deport them all!” caliber.
I have a feeling (from my own experience browsing these communities) that such content used to be quickly addressed and downvoted, and both of those subreddits don’t tend to ban people on the fly nor overmoderate. Sometimes I see threads with the same title (likely posted by the same person) on both the subreddit and the corresponding lemmy community where the difference in opinion and the general political leaning is obvious.
So, not to succumb to my own biases, have there been any writings, surveys, or studies on the political composition of Reddit shifting in large communities?
God forbid anybody sees something they don’t like on the Internet. Ignore, block, mute and roll on.
OP is asking if the political spectrum on Reddit shifted. OP is not asking “please tell me what you expect me to do”.
Also note that the concerns against certain discourses on the internet aren’t just a matter of “I don’t like this”.
Well maybe you should have answered them
Other users already answered it.
And you’re missing the point - this sort of “I assume that you don’t know what to do, so let me boss you around” is obnoxious and unproductive, please don’t do this unless requested or in a position to do so.
Oh yes sir!
I don’t give two fucks what people say. I’m more interested in the dynamics of this. As others mentioned, it may be that right wing idieology is more tolerant to enshitification or apathetic towards it.
I’d say less that right wing ideology cares about enshitification one way or the other, but what they do care about… is the ability to not be sensored for hate speech. With less mods, and the remaining mods having worse tools.
You seem upset
A quick look at your 16 hours ago created profile, and apparently this is what you do; act obnoxious for attention.
Why? And I’m not talking about saying controversial things, but the acting shitty part.
Reddit got greedy and I couldn’t use my app. So when my favorite app was released for this platform I jumped on it. I don’t feel I’m acting “shitty”. I have unpopular opinions. Especially on reddit.
You haven’t expressed your opinions here though, just thrown around snide remarks. If you have opinions, why don’t you share them instead of offering unsolicited advice or speculating on what you imagine someone’s emotional state to be?
Because they will receive the same down votes whether I put energy into a quality post or not.
Here is a surefire solution to that problem if you are accessing Lemmy through a browser:
Install Ublock Origin
Open the dashboard (click the icon, gear button on bottom right)
In the ‘My Filters’ tab, paste the following lines of code:
sh.itjust.works##span.ms-2 sh.itjust.works##span.me-1With this, you can no longer be downvoted and are free to put as much energy into a post as you want. If someone wants to let you know they disagree, they can do so, but will have to use their words.
Hm. Didn’t know that was possible. Although I use the boost app on Android to access Lemmy.
God forbid anybody reads what they are replying to on the internet!