• Mickey7@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Reddit is becoming typically right wing where they allow people to discuss various topics as long as their answers don’t disagree with their political leanings

    • arrow74@lemm.eeEnglish
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      1 month ago

      I don’t think it’s long before it dies off and goes the way of Facebook. It’ll have users sure, but it will be long past producing any content worthwhile

      • uienia@lemmy.world
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        1 month ago

        Nah, they will keep the corpse alive and possibly even more thriving (at least to the shareholders) with bot accounts. It is quite clear that a shitload of AI bots are being tested out in various subs at the moment.

  • Don Antonio Magino@feddit.nl
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    1 month ago

    Is this even „news” in the literal sense? The bigger subreddit seems to be r/AskUK, anyway, and they don’t have this petty rule (62 thousand vs. 2 million).

    But yeah, really petty indeed.

    • then_three_more@lemmy.world
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      1 month ago

      Askbrits 62k members.

      Askuk 2milion members.

      I got banned from the latter because of their stupid absolutely no politics rule. Lots of questions can’t be answered without it being down to politics.

    • letsgo@lemm.eeEnglish
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      1 month ago

      Where presumably it will be perfectly OK, putting the boot on the other foot so to speak, to discuss making Scotland part of England.

  • Ofiuco@lemmy.cafeEnglish
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    1 month ago

    The r/mexico sub is controlled by government paid mods, they manipulate the posts by removing or hidding those that bring light to the illegal things they do, ban the users who get vocal about it but allow the bots to be as aggressive as they want.
    There have already been complaints with the reddit admins, but they seem to be aligned with it, so they do shit about it.

    It’s a weird thing because the bots get downvoted hard, making it seem as if the sub wasn’t aligned with it, but it’s more about the normal users not being idiots even if the mods and bots want everyone to lick boots.