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Re:Avoiding outrage fatigue while staying informed by mjmsmith on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @09:58PM (#42958472)
Oh please. Posts from /r/conservative show up in /r/popular all the time, and it remains a hotbed of conspiracy theorists, grifters, and old fashioned racists.
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Re:Avoiding outrage fatigue while staying informed by xvector on Thursday February 06, 2025 @12:57AM (#42959504)
The ratio is what matters. Easily 95%+ of r/all is far-left content, typically with "rage-bait" headlines that fail to expose the nuance of the situation.

This can't be healthy, for two reasons:

(1) The health of the company. As an investor in RDDT, I am not a fan of the site's landing page alienating 50% of Americans right off the bat.

(2) The health of public discourse. We should all be against the creation of echo chambers and weaponization of headlines.

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Re:Avoiding outrage fatigue while staying informed by J_Shelby_J on Thursday February 06, 2025 @10:10AM (#42963097)
Well, then the 50% of Americans being alienated should make better content.
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