[honksillet]

Reddit’s censorship of r/the_donald was a huge moment in the splintering of political discourse into disconnected silos. It used to be you could go to the front page of Reddit and see what each side of American politics was pushing that day. People on both the left and right would be confronted with news that otherwise they might not see in their personal echo chambers. That all died when spez and co first “quarantined” (ironic jargon choice) then ultimately killed T_D. Truly a sad chain of events. PS. T_D still lives at patriots.win fwiw.

[dimgl]

The problem with this is that the discourse in those kinds of sites are way too extreme. People who have been kicked off of Reddit and want to _only_ engage in that topic tend to be fanatical. We need companies to embrace _both_ sides.

[rcxdude]

No, you could see what the_donald was pushing. They were constantly manipulating things to be as over-represented on the front page as they could. This is why they got canned.

[Panoramix]

Indeed. I despise everything right wing, but I'm also not a fan of what Reddit has become as of late. On the larger subs there are plenty of threads where somebody asks "can somebody give their perspective on why [XX issue that usually right wing people complain about]". Followed by a storm of progressive commenters stating a variation of "because if you care about XX you're insane/you're a nazi/etc". That makes up about the top 300 top level comments. If you scroll past that, there are hundreds of comments from people that intended to actually answer the question and provide nuance, but, but those comments are all deleted by the mods. It's mostly a progressive echo chamber nowadays.

[ThrowawayTestr]

If you want a website where radical centrisim is the word, check out rdrama.net