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?

  • ???@lemmy.worldOP
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    1 year ago

    Lemmy hasn’t been around for a long time but I feel like this doesn’t happen here. Maybe it’s time to give lemmy a chance?

    That story doesn’t make sense though, seems like some idiot banned you if this is how it really went. Did you appeal it? I mean… I would appeal it before totally giving up hope.

    Sorry I thought you meant the world news community, not the subreddit. Sorry you got banned on Reddit, it is super dumb. I got banned from r/feminism and then shadow banned from a few more feminist communities many many years ago for talking about my own experinece as a girl who put on Hijab at age 11/12 and took it off at age 17. They told me I was “promoting a symbol of oppression” and told me to fuck myself when I appealed it. Good job feminist mod for kicking the brown girl down!

    Ever since I joined Lemmy I’ve had fewer negative psychological effects from Reddit. People here seem more patient and appreciative of thoughtful answers. I really think it would benifits you to give it a solid try and say your opinions no matter how unpopular.

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      1 year ago

      Thanks for sharing that. It seems you understand what I’m talking about since you dealt with it.

      I’ll give it a chance and see if it’s better than Reddit. Thank you