r/onguardforthee is the real Canadian Subreddit. Obligatory fuck Reddit, but fuck r/canada twice as hard.
Ogft is one of the first places I got banned on reddit
Before I dropped Reddit 2 years ago I was a frequenter of onguardforthee too. Canada subreddit had already been taken over by rightwing mods for years by that point.
I immediately dropped r/canada after there was an upvoted post about how Canada should switch to US styled privatized healthcare and all the top comments were cheering for it. Absolutely no Canadians talk like that.
When you go in, 7/10 of the top comments in r/Canada are all op eds by ??? given volume by PostMedia and even further right organizations. All the top rated comments are variations of generalizations on why Trudeau (which is now just a variable for insert subject non-conservative) is just the worst.
Thing is, there are real things to say, but it all gets drowned out by magnified lazy drivel. It’s the one time LLM hallucinations are useful.
And the moderation group, if not responsible, is at least complicit.
Not surprising in the least. The author’s research methodology is a bit clunky, but you don’t need an LLM to tell you that the content on r/Canada is extremely conservative and that a lot of it feels inorganic. It’s self-evident.
Basically every subreddit on the front page is botted hard with political posts pushing far-right content.
I used Reddit when it was a tiny backwater site (Digg was the place to be, everyone knew that).
Sure, the comments could get a bit out of hand but nothing on this level. This is industrial levels of bad faith trolls and bots manipulating the conversations so only the most outrageous takes are visible.
It’s a joke to make fun of how moderation heavy r/conservative is. That kind of social media manipulation seems quaint now. That’s one just a person, or a few people trying to engineer a filter bubble.
The operation(s) taking over social media are huge numbers of people augmented with vote manipulation bots and LLMs so that they dominate the algorithms with their brand of content and so they get to influence what millions of people read all day and thus what and how they think.
Canada it’s driving a specific message, in GCJ it’ll have a different topic but the same tactics.
I know a couple of friends who were banned without warning from r/canada for super weak reasons while correcting right-wing misinformation so I’m not surprised.
No thanks; I’m here so I don’t have to deal with that dreck.
