I left reddit about 2 years ago before the oct 7th attacks, so I never really saw the reaction over there. I didn’t expect it to be like lemmy, reddits always been a bit islamaphobic and quick to take up US state department propaganda, but I assumed by now though that since most on there are liberals under 50 that theyd be somewhere around “not a genocide, but Israel is committing atrocities and a ceasefire would be good.” on the issue
But someone was calling out reddit in a thread about the flotilla being bombed and I looked into it and the thread on worldnews was full of denials and calling it a false flag. Looked more into worldnews and every thread on the issue is full of zionist saying things along the lines of “anything is justified to get rid of the evil terrorists hamas” or downplaying the atrocities.
Is this just a worldnews issue? Is it the mods over there? Is there some other sub with more pro-palestine news that split off? Has it been like this for the whole conflict?
I suspect there was also a demographic and normative shift when a bunch of people left when they dropped 3rd party apps and sided with advertisers over moderators. I think the average age dropped along with the shift and the next September after 3rd party apps were dropped in the summer.
There were similar changes after the large increase in users from the digg migration; subreddits split, norms around what gets votes and moderated changed for a broader audience on the larger subreddits, more general topic and current pop events instead of more science and tech, more memes and videos instead of article and plain text, etc.
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