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Reddit is a lost cause. They totally got the election wrong and the day afterwards they broke their mind trying to justify the loss with whatever conspiracy theory they could come up with. Combine that with overzealous mods and you'll eventually end up in a situation where the majority of people left are just bots. Bots talking to other bots.



You can’t talk like this about a platform based on the concept of independent Subforums. How did the Woodworking subreddit get the election wrong?


I'm a reader of r/allsvenskan, also don't quite remember them getting the election wrong.


This comment after 4 years of "stop the steal" and "Joe Biden is a robot" as large points in mainstream Republican thought is comical


What I learned the hard way this cycle was that I and all the people supporting Kamala were duped into repeating 2016 all over again. The lack of a primary, all the games being played culminating in an 'anointing'. Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me.

Anyone putting any trust into Reddit is fooling themselves. Its not only political subs, other subs are also astroturfed, they are just more subtle about it. There are plenty of examples from places everything like /r/buyitforlife(where you discover the lies after you get burned), to bigger subs like /r/technology(which push certain agendas devoid of facts). You'd have to go sub by sub and piece out the blatant lies, or you could walk away from the platform understanding that the design is fundamentally flawed and was designed for an era of the internet that no longer exists.




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