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.
That doesn't necessarily mean much considering he's replacing Bolsonaro, who you don't have to be a leftist to hate.
More importantly, there isn't a propaganda campaign going on against Lula. If Lula ever falls into the crosshairs of the US, then the media will run a bunch of negative stories about him, and Reddit will fall in line behind whatever sanctions or regime change the US does. That's why you can't just be like, "Oh well you can't support the countries that are currently in America's crosshairs, but you can still support the ones that aren't, so it's fine," because the ones that aren't may someday find themselves in those crosshairs, and at that point the previous support will dry up and become meaningless.
Of course most people have left-ish ideas, but if they can be easily manipulated into supporting bad things, then so what? Like, my chud mom once quoted, "All that's necessary for evil to triumph is for good people to do nothing," ...in defense of the invasion of Iraq. Values and principles are largely irrelevant if your view of reality can be easily manipulated.