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
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.