Yesterday it kinda hit me that the feed left a lot more “reddit-y” suddenly. More american politics for one.
There is a also aspecific thing that alerted me: Sudden appearance of this pattern plagueing reddit where a post about some bad muslim person escalates into edgy atheism which is also kinda racist and lowkey fascist in a very specific way.
I don’t have a lot of empiric evidence, just the vibe seems to have shifted.
I have come to expect politics with debates against propensities as they come up on these (or any) social platforms. Thats just how forums have always been since it was referred to as bulletin boards back in the 90s. Reddit didnt invent that. Thats just human behaviour where people bat these things around and see what they can get away with. and trolls exist everywhere.
The thing that would make a platform reddit-y flavoured would be if it sold out to a large corporation, replaced mods with bots and celebrate a bunch of wife beating/federation/minority hunting subs and banned you for not liking it. That flavour is so very specific to reddit it’s considered a lesson in dark social experiments.