I sometimes comment in a community called wayofthebern, which is sort of a dissident left wing but good intentioned free speech sub, and reddit has been slowly purging the folks there over the past year
It's founder guy Fthumb got banned about a year ago for an absurd reason (talking about Israeli influence in Biden's cabinet), the entire website Saidit used as a backup got nuked, and out of the original folks there everyone is dwindling down
https://www.reddit.com/r/WayOfTheBern/comments/1q8eky7/this_place_is_gonna_need_more_backups/
Sorry if this seems off topic to the sub or whatever, but I've been reminded of this sub during the Epstein emails and revelations, which brought me back to Kotaku-in-Action #1's original founder being a subversive trying to gatekeep everyone, which reminded me of this place
I'm always amazed how all the sportsball subs are 100% pozzed to shit.
I understand that most of the dissident right considers all sportsball to be embarrassing waste of time distraction goyslop.
But not that long ago your average sportsball enjoyer demographically would've been a middle-aged to Gen X/boomer beer-drinking father/grandfather red-blooded blue collar male.
You would think this cohort would be at least somewhat putoff by all the alphabet mafia agitprop, the nigger worship & all the TDS. But there's zero signs of any resistance in these niches.
The sad thing as well is that the Redditfication of sports commentary has all but killed off any of the little independent forums & blogs that might've actually had some semblance of diversity of opinions.
You aren’t wrong. The demographic you describe I believe is still there, they just don’t voice their opinion on Reddit and it mainly stays in their local watch party commentary and never makes it online.
That’s because it’s been moderated that way. Hidden in controversial, then just removed altogether and move to ban the user who posted it. That is the Reddit M.O. these days (past several years really).
I agree about the demographic. I know some people who think it's run by political extremists who want us dead, but still give them traffic because they like some of the funny and hobbyist subs.
Eh, even the independent forums were mostly being consolidated into conglomerates that strictly enforced the leftist hivemind.
Used to follow the comments at a San Antonio Spurs fan forum called Pounding the Rock and right around 2016 it went to shit.
Sports went downhill when they became requirements for academic placement and gained commentary. Then they became hipster bullshit and then went all in on joining the left in their various crusades. The only sports that aren't pozzed are the small ones that don't have huge followings. Everything else is pozzed or slowly becoming pozzed.