I listened to this yesterday and it mirrored my own findings after a couple of years of studying r/canada’s posts and moderation quirks.

Not mentioned in the article were the banned subreddits from a few years past. r/metacanada was the canadian equivalent of r/thedonald from the states and was full of hate speech and the worst of the alt right conspiracy theories. Many of those users are still on the site.

the weirder thing is the smaller regional subreddits across Canada being overrun with russian disinfo.

all of this very much led to my abandonment of reddit as a platform.

And yes, there are left-leaning subreddits like r/onguardforthee but do you really want to be on the same site that allows the kind of abuse and brigading that exists on other, more “mainstream” subs? I couldn’t stomach it.