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nothing is stopping you from starting conservative versions of things on reddit. Reddit has been since it started pretty left leaning, but they don't stop r/conservative from existing as long as they maintain some decorum rather than act like 4chan or r/TheDonald which was riddled with nuts and russian bots. There are a ton of conservative leaning subs on there, just don't expect them to have thousands of visitors like r/pics or r/memes . You can start r/ConservativeMemes and r/ConservativePics if you like!

>>stjohn+(OP)
What I see (from reddit) as an US outsider is the people in US are already too polarized. It's either you are my friend or my enemy, no middle ground.

No wonder, seeing what the political news are there at the last 3 years.

>>fendy3+yg
The news culture in the US is toxic. It creates division and people react to the news rather than the policy. I believe Reddit has a similar effect by pushing moderates and centre-left people to the right.

>>stjohn+(OP)
The isolation of particular viewpoints into their own subreddit is precisely the problem imo.

There are political undertones in nearly every subreddit. But depending on which sub you are visiting, you can be downvoted or even banned for not having the "accepted" viewpoint. There's no place to have balanced discussion anymore, and that's one of the things that used to make reddit enjoyable.

Creating more siloed echo chambers isn't a fix, it's the problem.