Yet Reddit, that follows this model, still manages to engage in suppression of on-topic viewpoints that moderators and/or Reddit employees disagree with.
https://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/5u9pl5/intro...
(Not a Trump fan or even right-leaning, just pointing out that Reddit administrators went to great lengths to suppress a subreddit they disliked long before banning it.)
This happens on Reddit all day along with pretty much every political sub on the platform. But they chose to only ban /r/TheDonald.
Reddit had a policy for banning accounts that were calling for violence. Yet during the 2020 riots they conveniently dropped this rule. This smells of massive hipocracy.
Also subbit reddit admins aren't employees , I believe most people can create a subreddit and be an admin
SubredditDrama is a meta-subreddit. They linked to the post by Spez where he admitted to editing the comment — unfortunately, it's no longer available due to Reddit banning r/the_donald, but you can find numerous news articles that include his original comment. E.g., https://www.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-38088712
> Also subbit reddit admins aren't employees , I believe most people can create a subreddit and be an admin
In Reddit terminology those are moderators. Administrators are site-wide and employed by Reddit.
https://old.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/5frg1n/tifu_...
It's a community ruled by progressives, posted into by progressives and mostly read by progressives. The content reflects that. This has been achieved by years of content filtering and banning of any centrist or right wing views. It's the definition of an echo chamber. Or another of the main subreddits, r/video, just recently I'm watching a post where a guy describes some valve or whatever and his little kid comes in yadda yadda cute video of dad with his daughter. In the comments it's all about how the guy said something about supporting truckers or whatever and how terrible that was. Yep. Meanwhile the video has basically no dislikes on Youtube..But by reading the r/video thread you'd think it's unpopular and the guy is a nazi or something. No. It's just that Reddit is a manufactured community of left wingers.
Btw try to talk about how "trans women are not women" and refer to transitioning people by their pre-transition name (because you don't recognize their transition or it is against your religion), which is absolutely a political/religious statement and 100% a point of view, see how long your account lasts :)
After US election day 2016, it was actually possible for about a day to post non-leftist posts and comments to /r/politics without them being instantly downvoted or removed for being "off topic", because the mods hadn't received new marching orders. It was quite a change, albeit temporary.
Not because of the overall community, but because of business actions, manufactured turmoil, and well funded trolling.
Proof? Read about how reddit suppressed dissent during the pandemic.
I'm not going to post any particular link because the topic is too political and every source (left and right) spins things in some way that I dislike.
The facts, without spin, are these: reddit banned and/or quarantined many anti-lockdown subs. Initially, they said they would not, because "Dissent is a part of Reddit and the foundation of democracy", but ultimately, they did.
You should cite sources instead of saying the equivalent of "do your own research "