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.

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      It’s also still very progressive. If reddit is considered conservative to you, you may be very far left.

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

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      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.

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        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.

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      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.

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          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.

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            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)

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              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.

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      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