From Libertarian Tech Haven to Progressive Echo Chamber Reddit’s evolution from an anti-establishment, tech-libertarian playground to one of the most aggressively left-wing platforms online is no accident. What started in 2005 as a decentralized, hands-off community where anything went—besides spam—has become a moderator-controlled political bubble, where dissent from progressive orthodoxy often leads to bans, shadow […]
The absolute irony of posting this on lemmy
Yeah, Reddit is way closer to center than Lemmy is lol.
Thats not to say that Reddit isn’t also Left Leaning, just that Lemmy leans Left way more than Reddit.
who is the centermost centrist from your pov? left and right means nothing without reference points. It’s like saying cold and hot instead of using specific temperatures like boiling point and freezing point.
And this is without saying that left-right is a 1D projection of a sum of positions in many dimensions.