r/millenials • u/potionnumber9 • 1d ago

META šŸ—£ļø Reddits feed showing me a lot of conservative subs lately.

Is anyone else having this experience lately? It's mostly meme focused subs, but very conservative leaning.

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u/gryanart 1d ago

Itā€™s because your algo suggests thatā€™ll anger you and anger drives engagement

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u/potionnumber9 1d ago

Yea, welll, fuck you! Jk

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u/noncommonGoodsense 1d ago

Engage with them, shit on them. Get banned problem solved.

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u/sPLIFFtOOTH 1d ago

This is the answer

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u/howdybeachboy 1d ago

I think you also need to mute the subreddit since banning doesnā€™t auto remove them from your feed? At least on my Reddit app

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u/BBoggsNation 1d ago

Lol, that's how lib subs work.

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u/Chimpbot 1d ago

r/Conservative is the softest sub on Reddit. Their regular practice is to restrict posting and commenting to flaired users only... and the only way to get flaired is to message the sub and convince them that you meet their criteria for what is conservative enough.

It's the most thin-skinned, 10-ply behavior I've ever seen.

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u/BBoggsNation 1d ago

Flaired only makes the initial response required to be flaired, lol

Nice try, don't ban me over it šŸ¤£

I'd ask not to get a zillion downvotes, but blah blah thin skin and such.

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u/Chimpbot 1d ago

I mean, that's just a flat-out lie. You can't comment in flaired only posts without a flair; the automod automatically deletes your comments.

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u/BBoggsNation 1d ago

Wrong again.

Only flaired people can reply/respond to the original post.

Anyone can reply to replies to the original post.

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u/Chimpbot 1d ago

Nope. I'm not wrong because I've had comments automatically deleted for that very reason.

Only flaired users can comment. Anything else is deleted by the automod.

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u/BBoggsNation 1d ago

Interesting, it didn't used to be like that.

The description of the sub is something like "a place for conservatives to discuss conservative ideas with other conservatives" so the intent of the sub is not a secret.

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u/arestheblue 1d ago

Go say something true and slightly critical of Trump in r/conservative, you get banned. Say something to the effect of "I think all trans people should not be alive," and there's probably less than a 50% chance you get banned from subs that are less right wing than full on nazi...which is what MAGA thinks the left is.

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u/YoloSwaggins9669 1d ago

Yup theyā€™re the fastest ban hammer in reddit I didnā€™t even say anything critical of dear leader and got banned

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u/Chimpbot 1d ago

That's if you can even comment at all. Most of the posts over there are restricted to flaired users only.

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u/Scottyjscizzle 1d ago

Only subs Iā€™ve been banned from politically was Trump, and conservative. Even after shitting on liberals. Stop acting like the right isnā€™t the biggest group of whiny bitch boys.

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u/LuvliLeah13 1d ago

BuT the LiBeRaLs šŸ¤£šŸ¤£šŸ¤£

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u/BBoggsNation 1d ago

The sun rises in the East. Are you mad at me for pointing that out, too?

Not my fault the comment made me laugh.

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u/Ok_Replacement8094 1d ago

Undoubtedly the sun rises in the West.

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u/battle_bunny99 1d ago

Yeah, I get the weirdest YouTuber based subs suggested to me. I get snarky , they always say, ā€œwhy are you here?!ā€ ā€œBecause someone is paying to boost your subreddit?

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u/Mechanik_J 1d ago

Yep, and sometimes corps change the algorithms to either get more conservatives, or get non conservatives to engage on their website.

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u/Nihil1349 1d ago

Reminds me of Facebook wanting to keep people arguing and het up.

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u/Pursuit-of-Nature 1d ago

It was for a full 6 weeks after the inauguration! I was very irritated and kept reporting them as not interested or show lessā€¦

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u/sbbblaw 1d ago

I just get the liberal ones. Tons of them. Would love to limit political stuff just to political subs

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u/kittymctacoyo 1d ago

Whatā€™s happening just as much as intentional conditioning is that they were doing poorly in the stock market before this tanking so they need to drive engagement so adopted the Facebook model of ā€œwhat will piss this person off enough to engage in some way?ā€ As rage baiting is significantly more profitable and drives significantly more engagement. Fucking sucks

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u/Ok_Replacement8094 1d ago

Huh, so effective that Iā€™m mad about it. Even though I havenā€™t engaged in Facebook for 20 years. For precisely this insanity.

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u/AsparagusOverall8454 1d ago

I just blocked them all.

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u/potionnumber9 1d ago

Yea, I've started doing that, as well

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u/shrikeskull 1d ago

It's remarkable how many bizarre niche subreddits there are.

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u/Ok_Replacement8094 1d ago

Damn Iā€™ve been so curious about those subs but not enough to go searching.

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u/thanos_quest 1d ago

Go in and get banned, should be pretty easy bc theyā€™re fucking snowflakes.

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u/CharlottesWebbedFeet 1d ago

I just mute them all but the problem comes when a sub is dominated by conservative ideology but itā€™s under an ambiguous banner, like r/portfolios, as a recent one Iā€™ve discovered.

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u/LittleBunnySunny 1d ago edited 1d ago

Not for me, yet.. but it's become extreme on fb out of nowhere. :/

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u/Fire_Doc2017 1d ago

No, but some dude blocked me for complaining about bothsidesism and I couldn't be happier.

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u/psdwizzard 1d ago

For some reason Reddit never suggests other subreddits to me anymore. He might be that I have read it premium or it might be a setting where I said don't edit my feed I don't remember.

Whatever the causes it's one of the reasons I'm still here on Reddit versus Facebook.

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u/Ok_Replacement8094 1d ago

It suggests more niche versions of my already niche hobbies. Which Iā€™m totally cool with. Knock on woodā€¦

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u/JumpingSpiderQueen 1d ago

Yeah. I noticed this too. I'm in a lot of lgbtq subs normally, and now I seem to get flooded with pretty alt-right-y content. I also get a lot of "Christian" ads. I see this on places like YouTube as well, even from a fresh un-logged in browser page. I never engage with such content either, so I don't think it makes sense too much.

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u/krisztinastar 16h ago

FYI theres a hidden setting somewhere where you can restrict some ad topics.

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u/livelongprospurr 1d ago

"Meme-focused" sounds about right; a meme is the extent of their idea of argument.

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u/cassiecas88 1d ago

I pick up the are conservative subreddit sometimes. Yesterday the two top posts were: 1. Hundreds of comments ripping Kamala Harris apart for No reason and saying disgusting things about her. They're all convinced that as bad as things are it would be worse with her and power. A lot of ignorance and hate.

But the second thread I read was actually a lot better. They were All super angry about Trump talking about wanting a third term. I'll talking about how that's the problem with him as he doesn't know when to shut his mouth.

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u/Mechanical_Monk 21h ago

I turned off "Show recommendations in home feed" in Settings a long time ago, so I don't even know what it would recommend me at this point.

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u/white_window_1492 9h ago

If you use the app you can turn off suggested posts.

Settings > Account settings > privacy > enable home feed recommendations (turn this off)

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u/potionnumber9 8h ago

šŸ‘ thanks for the suggestion

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u/Josh_664 1d ago

Reddit keeps suggesting me the Joe Rogan podcast subreddit.

I had to refrain from saying anything.

Joe Rogan fans are a bunch of sheep who will call you a sheep for not being a sheep. Itā€™s wild.

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u/Ok_Replacement8094 1d ago

Iā€™m just irritated by the constant wallyworld adverts, talking about picnics or some shit. Itā€™s just so out of touch.

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u/RunMysterious6380 1d ago

Same. I just told reddit to stop suggesting the specific subs and then hid the subs. It stopped after the 3rd one.

I did decide to scroll some of the comments on two of the suggested posts and it was a dumpster fire of fragile-male toxicity and ignorance, pure manosphere group-think by deeply insecure and angry misogynists.

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u/Your_Couzen 1d ago

Iā€™m a conservative and I really wish Reddit would go back to being non political. I want to come here to goof off, not get myself or other people triggered.

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u/FollowTheLeads 1d ago

For me ? Not at all. Though I have been seeing more ads.

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u/pegasuspaladin 23h ago

Spread the truth, get banned, don't see the sub again.

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u/boxedfoxes 5h ago

I got popcorn, cause Jesus Christ on a motorbike. The coupeium is so strong.