r/Canada is very similar
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thehatfox@lemmy.world 3 months agoThere’s been a noticeable shift on r/UnitedKingdom since around the time of the Reddit protests. I no longer participate there but I’ve seen quite a bit of extra unpleasantness the few times of taken a curious look at it.
Not that it was ever a great place to discuss trans issues, but the nastiness seems to be spreading to all manner of topics now.
DoctorSpocktopus@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
DrCake@lemmy.world 3 months ago
There’s always been that undercurrent of hate. The first few comments on any immigration story was enough to see that.
But yeah, I think the demographic did shift a bit in the last year or so
floofloof@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
There may have been an organized effort by the far right to take over various national subreddits. It gives the impression that their views are overwhelmingly popular in the country, when really they’re not. The subreddit /r/Canada also got dominated by the far right, which led to the creation of /r/onguardforthee.
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 3 months ago
Tbf, leftists did this also. r/northernireland had a big bunch of American IRA larpers who never set foot in the country