It also trends much more political than /r/popular. (Low quality liberal bait like “DAE think trump bad???” most of the time, but still). Their explicit goal with their “alternative” feeds was to de-rank the political discussions in favor of 9gag-esque slop.
When a big political event happened, you could go to /r/all and be blasted with tens of discussions about it, or go to /r/popular and watch staged animal rescue videos or whatever.
Now I’m not saying it’s a conspiracy necessarily, but it certainly is yet another major loss for free political speech online.
It also trends much more political than /r/popular. (Low quality liberal bait like “DAE think trump bad???” most of the time, but still). Their explicit goal with their “alternative” feeds was to de-rank the political discussions in favor of 9gag-esque slop.
When a big political event happened, you could go to /r/all and be blasted with tens of discussions about it, or go to /r/popular and watch staged animal rescue videos or whatever.
Now I’m not saying it’s a conspiracy necessarily, but it certainly is yet another major loss for free political speech online.