Like for the past few years, browsing reddit is basically a daily routine for me. Now Reddit is dying, I feel like a part of me died. A website filled with many years of content… will soon be gone. I heard rumours that they are planning to purge the site of “undesirable” content before their IPO. I fear same thing will happen to youtube. I don’t have the resources to save all the content online, and watching sites die is painful. Reddit’s death triggered my fear for losing all those amazing youtube channels that I occasionally binge rewatch. (Does anyone else rewatch youtube videos over and over on a weekly basis? Maybe I’m just weird.
So this is what the internet is? Just a cycle of sites being born and dying, just like humans being born and dying. Omg whats the meaning of life…
Umm… sorry for the weird existential monologue. Lol
Reddit pulled me away from the far right as well!
Wait you’re telling me, the only reason you’re not a nazi is because of reddit? 🤔
I don’t know if you’d really call it far right or not, but at one point in my life I was:
Pro gun
Anti-LGBTQ
Hated the left
I was more liberal on other things such as women’s rights and loving america to the detriment of everything else.
Nowdays I’d say I’m liberal but moving more left slowly. It started in college where I was actually exposed to other ways of life, but reddit continued that.
I had a similar experience. Reddit both led me into a hate community (TiA) and helped pull me out of it later. It’s also the place that helped me realize I’m non-binary.
The radicalization of (particularly) adolescent white American males begins and accelerates primarily in online spaces. It tends to follow a rather predictable pattern, too.