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I joined reddit on the tailwind, so it was all echo chamber, we hate newcomers, gatekeeping, automod frenzy, too many rulebreakers, too many rules, etc I could be wrong, but thats what I imagine it used to be like.

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[–] mholiv@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

As someone who was on Reddit when it was young I am going to disagree with you here. Young Reddit was absolutely full of political ideology. It was a Ron Paul, legalize weed, atheist, soft anti feminist, cypher punk, USA style libertarian pool of ideology.

All places have an ideology. We are all constantly swimming in ideology. It’s just when an ideology matches you (either you being molded by the ideology or you joining a place with a matching ideology) you don’t notice it. A fish only has to think about the medium it is in after it is pulled out of the water.

[–] NightOwl@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago

It's why Reddit Enhancement Suite was so valued on desktop for its filtering abilities and third party apps.

And the longer people used the reddit the more likely they were to avoid going to /r/all and unsubscribe from most if not all default subreddits.

Filtering is becoming just as important on the fediverse.

[–] cubedsteaks@lemmy.today 2 points 1 year ago

It was a Ron Paul, legalize weed, atheist, soft anti feminist, cypher punk, USA style libertarian pool of ideology

It's funny that I wasn't even on reddit back then but I remember that time and the kind of people who existed back then and they were definitely redditors.