[kypro]

It's sad what Reddit has become. I remember a decade or so ago Reddit was strongly in favour of free speech and would welcome all discussion and communities so long as they were acting within the law.

Understandably they took a small step back early on and decided to remove communities sharing pictures of children, but jumping forward to today Reddit is almost unrecognisable...

Pressure from advertisers has caused them to ban adult content from the front page, and as you point out it seems they're actively trying to make it as difficult as possible to view adult content. More worryingly though communities with unpopular political positions are quickly removed to avoid potential media push back.

I know Twitter gets a lot of hate, but the political environment on Reddit is far more toxic and hostile IMO. To their credit I do occasionally see some right-wing trends and opinions on Twitter, but on Reddit even creating a subreddit in support of the current president of the United States is likely to be seen as a bannable offence.

There are some good alternative social networks cropping up now though. Unfortunately I haven't found one that isn't highly partisan, but there are alternatives for those of us who sometimes think the wrong things. I suspect any popular social media platform will succumb to the same corporate pressure with enough time though. Corporate interest has changed almost all websites from a decade ago in one way or another.

[xadhominemx]

/r/the_donald was not banned because they supported the president and you know it. /r/conservative is a huge sub and strongly favors trump.