how do I downvote shit here?

how could you miss it? All of the posts are rage baity news articles and the commentary is all super sketchy.

and this is the problem with reddit (and sites like it, including this one): Create a sub / community, add your mod crew and wait for people to show up. Years later, the original mod team might not have the best interests of the current population at heart. Or you get “overton window creep” where overtime, the moderators shift in political stance from the original intent.

How can a site ostensibly representing a nation the size of Canada have a limited mod team appointed by who knows who? There is no moderation oversight on reddit. Or lemmy.ml. I think Beehaw has some of that, but not sure how far that goes.

yup. I’ve seen it too.

I listened to this yesterday and it mirrored my own findings after a couple of years of studying r/canada’s posts and moderation quirks.

Not mentioned in the article were the banned subreddits from a few years past. r/metacanada was the canadian equivalent of r/thedonald from the states and was full of hate speech and the worst of the alt right conspiracy theories. Many of those users are still on the site.

the weirder thing is the smaller regional subreddits across Canada being overrun with russian disinfo.

all of this very much led to my abandonment of reddit as a platform.

And yes, there are left-leaning subreddits like r/onguardforthee but do you really want to be on the same site that allows the kind of abuse and brigading that exists on other, more “mainstream” subs? I couldn’t stomach it.