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I think it's a sign of the times, also replicated outside of reddit, for example Mastodon. I enjoyed a solid 20 years of online discourse that was overall reasonable, and most of it not very political.

Now everything is highly politicized with a hard split across two camps where before I barely could detect the very concept of a camp at all.

There's no detectable reasonable right-wing online, it always escalates into 4chan. Hence, the "civil" people clean the place, and you'll have centrists and moderate-left remaining. Give it time and far-left will dominate as moderates silence themselves out of fear.

>>dahwol+(OP)
> Give it time and far-left will dominate as moderates silence themselves out of fear.

This is already happening across the board.

>>dahwol+(OP)
One thing I want to point out is that political culture, and defines right and left, varies globally. This is key to understanding why Reddit is so unbelievably US centric even in the international subreddits - the moderation has had the effect of creating echochambers that don't make any sense in the local political discourse.

I think moderation on Reddit had the effect of cleaning out centrists as well, since it was a comment that got you banned from reddit and not your political position (e.g. a post which was positive towards a trump policy would get you caught up in the post-2016 moderation sweep).

You can see the effect on Indians. Quora was popular with Indians because it was intellectual and centrist in the western political spectrum, from a culture that has the right-wing as being Hindu-leaning and the left-wing as being Muslim-leaning. Indians are absent from Reddit comparatively.

>>dimgl+92
It has happened in most subreddits IMO. Any palatable subreddit is only palatable because the moderation does not ban you, not because it is more centrist.

>>dahwol+(OP)
>There's no detectable reasonable right-wing online

substack is where all the online right wingers who aren't unhinged reside imo

>>dahwol+(OP)
This is something I have seen from many different sites. Someone from mostly the right wing decides to make an alternative to Reddit or Youtube or whatever, just to avoid the restrictive nature of these larger platforms, It is surprising just how quick the alternative turns into the worst possible version of right wing.

>>dimgl+92
I feel like for every comment on Reddit that's even slightly controversial, I need to watch my words and add various layers of overtones in order to avoid things being taken out of context or given the worst possible interpretation. People are there to score points, so comments are longer than they need to be or people attack. It's part of why the dreaded "/s" is so popular over there.

I greatly appreciate the rules here that we should read and interpret in good faith - and the fact that it's enforced.