It's fine! I wasn't really bothered by the locking , just that it needed a response and the various sus things in it clearing up. Criticism from further left is what pulls communities and their members leftwards so I'm never against that. It's a useful function, it just seems odd to criticise the subreddit for something it was years ago rather than something it is today. There are definitely still bread-tubey libs there but even the China threads have a very solid two sides to them and we do an enormous amount to keep things mixed rather than allowing radlibs to run amok. It's certainly not an ML community, but it's a very socialist one.

The demographics will definitely be dominated by comfortable white westerners though because the demographics of reddit are dominated by that.