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.
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.
And centrist liberals
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
Of course it’s not true, Lemmy is absolutely tiny compared to reddit. Napkin match puts it at 0.005% of the active user base.
Can confirm. They’re the only communities I still engage with back there (namely cremposting and wetlanderhumor)
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“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.
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.
Thanks for that, I agree completely.
How many be bots tho
Its gotta happen, right? Where the astroturfers are wasting time on friendly fire. Like two catfish meeting online?
They deserve each other
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.
I think the_donald gave him some more runway but really I think it was him calling into Fox and Friends that solidified his base.
The media made Trump. That includes social media.
Awww, one of them thinks they learned something…
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.
Yeah it’s 100% astroturfed man fucking hell
The usernames alone make me suspicious
Yeah it looks formatted doesn’t it - word / hyphen / word / hyphen / number / lmao
Yeah it’s the Reddit default username generator. I always assume that they’re spam
🤦♂️
Like to be honest probably pretty safe to assume about half of what happens on the internet is just bots talking to other bots*
*editors note: the author is well aware of the optimism in the idea that only half of internet traffic is bots, but whatever
For all you know, we’re both bots.
I’m beginning to suspect that my odd sitewide ban after 10 years on reddit was intentional
Conservatives are so mad that the world is left-leaning. The denial and self-delusion is almost sad to see.
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.
who is “they” here?
I hate it that all these people call it “left wing” because there’s censorship.
This censorship is actually right-wing censorship to protect their website from trouble from the left-wing. It’s as simple as that.
Companies like Reddit and other social media don’t care about the content. They only care about money and a reasonable good image.
If you fail to locate the downvote button, don’t complain.
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.
We have to accept that the ones weilding all the power right now are accelerationists themselves. They want the government to fail and they want to install their own. Unsurprisingly, they also own all the tech companies you just listed.
“They are completely uninterested in information that counters their views”
Oh, the irony.
Flaired users only
You have been banned from /r/conservative
Tired of reporting this thread? Debate us on Discord instead!
That bot speaks a lot about the quality of the typical r/conservative thread
Spoiler alert: they will just ban you on discord
I assumed we were upvoting them to laugh at them.
I cant stand subs that are openly hostile to outside commenter’s. I don’t care how ridiculous they are I wish them buried away at the bottom of the ocean.
Also why I can’t stand reddit in general.
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/
Although also notice that favorability has gone up. What is wrong with people?
Reality has a liberal bias that conservatives only overcome by rigging the system.
