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Unsubscribe from the default subs and follow subreddits that interest you. There is a subreddit for almost every mutually incompatible viewpoint conceivable.

Reddit is a long way off from its prime but there’s still a healthy diversity of opinion there. Just not in /r/news.

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/r/anime_titties/ (underscore _very_ important here) is a good source for non-US news.

They specifically ban news from US, India and China so they won't dominate the content.

> They specifically ban news from US, India and China so they won't dominate the content.

???

India : https://www.reddit.com/r/anime_titties/comments/z3dhr9/meta_...

China : https://www.reddit.com/r/anime_titties/comments/z3datt/uk_ch..., https://www.reddit.com/r/anime_titties/comments/z3fgka/major...

US : https://www.reddit.com/r/anime_titties/comments/z3hoy3/us_ir...

This is just the first page.

> 2.3.1 The number of paragraphs with more than a passing reference to the USA, China or India in any capacity should not exceed more than 50% of the article.

If you want to get really political there is almost no subreddit where you can talk about "opposing views".

Reddit outright bans and then shadow bans the admins with any opposing views.

Oh yeah, I can see what views you call "really political".

I will lay out my views here

"who are the mysterious gold buyers who bought 300 tons of gold",

"who are the mysterious buyers of oil ships to keep russian oil float",

"is the rest of the world gradually dumping USD",

"does the Ukraine-Russia war have any chance of peace"

"Europe did not really want to be involved in the Ukraine war but did so only due to immense pressure from US"

"Why would Russia blow up it's own pipeline?"

"Are most of the non western world turning against IMF and USD global reserve"

I really don't need answers to these since the last time I asked one of this in here I was suspended for a week.

There are subreddits for you, like https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/

Especially due to "Europe did not really want to be involved in the Ukraine war but did so only due to immense pressure from US"

Yeah, "immense pressure from US" when you see your closest neighbors being killed by russian butchers.

I seriously doubt that the Reddit admins have any grudge against asking “is the rest of the world gradually dumping USD?” or many others of those questions. Maybe it’s the way you ask it?

There are definitely things that you can’t say on Reddit. But these questions are quite tame.

This is why I specifically mentioned homepage which is the curated subreddits. Worldnews and news are basically almost 100% propaganda channel for the US government

There is no homepage. It depends on what subreddits you subscribe to and if you go to /r/popular or /r/all you can't really blame me for that.

Nobody blames you for anything. He is just saying that reddit is seeing a lot of propaganda.

Sorry if my sentence came off as blaming you. by "homepage" I meant the default page of reddit when you are not logged in. larger subreddits like worldnews is practically a petridish for reddit algorithms to push western narratives.

Have you considered the possibility that some western narratives might be upvoted because they're popular with the (mostly western) audience of Reddit, and not because governments are manipulating the site?

There absolutely IS a homepage. The one you see in an incognito window

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