In this post that I found while browsing via Popular, people are openly talking about Marx and capitalism. In another post I saw, people were praising Lula. These are both posts I found via Popular, ie these are the ones the algo is promoting and are getting a lot of traction. That’s a good sign!
I’m sure there are plenty bad parts to Reddit, and the site as a whole might be astroturfed to hell, but there are so many people there that are open to socialism, maybe more than any other popular social media platform.
Maybe you can’t praise China or talk about Russia, but I feel everything else is game. And honestly? I think that’s fine. If we can get the average Redditor to turn to socialism and to bring down western imperialism, then that is already gonna be the biggest possible help the global south can ask for.
Basically there are so so many subs that concluding that it's "pretty socialist , actually" is off base. We call it :reddit-logo: for a reason, it waxes and wanes in favor of a broad "progressivism," but anything further than that, like socialism, and you're basically toast. There are a few decent spots, but on the whole, it reflects the politics of its users who are by and large not any flavor of socialist
I guess. I think the fact that socialist subreddits/posts/comments rise to the top is a good sign. Maybe most people aren’t socialists but they can be if that pattern continues.