this post was submitted on 25 Jun 2023
719 points (99.3% liked)
13634 readers
1 users here now
founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
The over-politicization here is annoying tbh. I still use Reddit for two things. To check on a reality tv show's subreddit and to check Cricket discussions. I hope they move somewhere else, but neither are let or right wing. It feels like you're seeing something you don't like and attribute qualities you don't like on to it.
How is this comment any different from a right wing person saying:
Because the right absolutely does buy maga hats and scam commemorative coins. The left does not buy Mao anything. Because we're not a cult.
I get it. I’ve seen both left and right do that tbh. But what does it have to do with Reddit?
Right buys MAGA hat and is a cult so reddit is going right wing?!
If you're not participating in politics, politics is certainly participating in you.
I get it. This country/society that we're in is basically the Titanic, and any one person trying to push it in one direction does almost nothing. But almost nothing is still better than nothing.
The iceberg is a little off our starboard bow, so I get a little offended when people imply steering left and right is the same thing. Each of us in a democracy has an obligation to try to improve our society, because the alternative is the world going to shit. The bare minimum of that is knowing what's going on, having an opinion about it, and voting.
Public discussion is an increasingly important part of that. The idea that it's not polite to talk about politics and people fully ignoring "politics" is how we got to the shitshow we're in today.
It’s the same with Twitter. Apparently it has gone really right wing since Elon took over. But I’ve not noticed as I mostly follow football, tech, and music stuff.
Elon himself has gone really right wing, and coming out in public with some of the same hate and nastiness that Twitter showcases. There was a stink a while back because companies were seeing their ads posted next to full-on neoNazi content, which is absolutely the last thing a large company wants when they pay for advertising on a social media platform. I'm glad it's not affecting you personally, but it's part of why people are trying to move to p. much any other platform.
Wow that’s pretty nuts. I knew about him but not the advertising issues.
I do have a Mastodon account and tried to switch but the vast majority of Twitter accounts I follow aren’t currently on there.
Hopefully the other federated platforms take off - I used FidoNet and BBSs in the 90s, and the decentralised Fediverse very much reminds me of those days.
I hear you on Twitter, I think the only reason they're not going down even faster is that there are people there who are staying for other people. Facebook has that advantage as well. I don't think Reddit has that kind of specific-person pull, but it's too early to tell.
The Twitter advertising thing comes up in the news coverage because it's subject to quantitative analysis, and because advertising is Twitter's main source of $$$. People can point to dropping ad numbers and say "this is how much worse Twitter is than before Elon bought it." And I find it extra funny that Huffman is using it as an example of how he can make Reddit profitable by trashing it, because Twitter is most definitely not profitable, and no one but Elon thinks it's going to become profitable any time soon.