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from parents of children who integrated into cities and held mildly progressive views (gay marriage) at the time.
in actuality reddit was always libertarian (rightwing one at that^1^), which got corpo-ed after trumpy 2016 campaign
^1^ weed, jailbait, ron paul, gay marriage are all consistent with right wing libertarianism, i only don't remember gun hogging being prominent
facebook was thought as leftwing in the 2009~2012 (round occupy), together with twitter
Twitter at least was popular with somewhat actual leftists when it was new, specifically with occupy, people could communicate about protests with burner phones and you could recieve feeds in text message form so it was good for mass communication before it got locked down.
Exactly, Reddit only looks/looked left wing/liberal in comparison to main stream western politics, it's always been 4chan libertarian with a (slightly) better face (I remember how people got upset over fucking jailbait being banned)