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by ABCLAW
2059 days ago
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It's more likely that you're sitting on the far end of a normal distribution, and what you see as an enforced echo chamber is just the vast majority of users sitting in the middle of that bell curve doing their thing. In other words, if everyone is sitting to the left of you, maybe you're just sitting really far off to the right. |
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https://www.reddit.com/r/PoliticalDiscussion/comments/3e897a...
https://social.techjunkie.com/demographics-reddit/
It’s not that there is anything particular about Reddit that attracts leftists, it’s just dominated by a young demographic that generally skews far left of the wider population.
> other words, if everyone is sitting to the left of you, maybe you're just sitting really far off to the right.
It’s not “everyone”, it’s just a simple majority of the users on reddit, which demographically is sitting to the left of the wider population.
So (setting aside the fact that a two dimensional political spectrums is bullshit) yes, I’m sitting on the right side of the curve in Reddit’s user base. But so are most professionals, parents, etc (I.e. folks over 25). And you only have to be sitting slightly to the right of the median before the vote ratio steam rolls you’re world view.
> and what you see as an enforced echo chamber is just the vast majority of users sitting in the middle of that bell curve doing their thing
That’s literally a fucking echo chamber. A community that has a voting mechanism that reinforces the views of the majority and suppresses anything unpopular with that majority group.