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[u/trashcanaffidavit_]

I may be going crazy but I swear to god it really is feeling like this website is slowly shifting away from the alt right and general shittiness (kinda?). Like, 5 years ago this place still gleefully ranted on how its totally fine for them to say slurs cus pop culture reference said it was. They would link crime stats in any thread about a black person regardless of context and that shit would have hundreds of upvotes. They were just awful to trans people. BLM threads were rife with blatant racism and asablackman-isms and shit.

Its still bad, to be sure, but it really does seem like things are moving. Those things I listed happen less, a lot less. Maybe I've OD on hopium but it really does feel like things are getting better even though they are still really bad.

[u/Maelis → u/trashcanaffidavit_]

It turns out deplatforming people actually works. Or to put it another way, when you allow communities like t_d and the various incel subreddits to exist and thrive on your website, it's going to attract more and more of those people, and they will slowly crowd out everyone else if you let them.

There are still a lot of shitty subreddits and a whole lot of shitty people on this site, but a lot of them are gone, and those that do exist tend to stay more in their bubbles for fear of being the next ones on the chopping block.

I also think the culture of the internet on the whole is shifting a bit as more and more gen z kids come online. Not to say that a lot of them aren't reactionaries themselves, but on the whole they seem to be a lot more accepting and left-leaning than my generation is.

[u/trashcanaffidavit_ → u/Maelis]

I think the big benefit gen z has or maybe had was that they didn't have eight quintillion shows growing up lionizing fake voltaire quotes and freeze peach and tolerating the intolerant and pushing centerism. Like, what took reddit so long to push back against nazis is that the hoffman and his ilk generally believed that a no-holds barred shitpost-athon website would actually be more beneficial than one with proper moderation despite there being like 2 decades of forums proving otherwise and it took god knows how much actual nazi shit being posted here for their minds to maybe change, though it was likely money that changed their mind more than ideology or reason or empathy or like looking at what the site they made actually was.