I feel bad that some of yall assume Reddit is just for republican neckbeards. it is currently fucking plastered in leftist posts, making fun of trump and musk, calling out trump for basically admitting to election fraud and musk for the fucking salute, people literally openly saying they wish these assholes would die. Some subreddits with broad other purposes have been largely converted into leftist communities. Believing tumblr is the only existing bastion of leftists or whatever WILL make you bitter and miserable lol
What people think Reddit is: you sir have won the internets with your epic atheist logic!
What Reddit actually is:
I opened the fucking silly jojos bizarre adventure meme page and the first thing i saw was a meme straight up calling out musk as a fascist
Reddit yesterday was COVERED in posts discussing, asking the mods for, or mods announcing that all Twitter links are now banned from those subreddits. EXPLICITLY because of muskrat’s hitlersalute. Not just political subreddits, nearly every USA State subreddit was banning them, INCLUDING r/Texas (a bunch of non-English language and/or non-USA ones were doing it too!). Textile, video game franchise, gardening, people were organizing against him EVERYWHERE. With only a small spattering of explicitly rightwing subreddits crying conspiracy or deepstate.
Are you going to run into bigots and people unknowingly repeating bigoted things in unexpected places on Reddit? Absolutely, the same way you run into TERFs and people unknowingly repeating terf things on Tumblr constantly.
But while you can only block the idiots on tumblr, you can not only block but DOWNVOTE TO THE ABYSS idiots on Reddit. Make it VERY clear to them and everyone else that their brand of idiocy isn’t welcome in your community.
And if you don’t want to take my word for it, take the word of rightwing redditors who LOVE to complain about how biased reddit is toward the left.
Remember that time the Game of Thrones finale sucked so bad the mods turned the GoT subreddit into a LotR subreddit?
It kinda feels like that’s happening to Reddit on a site-wide societal level.
amhrancas 