Yup detoxifying from Reddit is taking some time for me. I really used to enjoy it for retro gaming, computer related and sport subs - there was leftist and anti-capitalist tone pretty much throughout the site initially.

8 years later it's a political battlefield, all the mods on any major sub are bought and sold, and it's being completely astroturfed by both sides. It went from certain opinions being overwhelmingly condemned, to passively accepted, to any majorly dissenting voices being banned... as it happened for me multiple times for simply showing an aggressive support of certain policies or ideas...getting literally threatened by chuds and then banned for offhandedly saying they should fuck off.

As per, civility only exists in the form of having to conform to a standard that justifies somebody else's superiority over you. Be nice to your superiors or you'll be judged inferior. The catch 22 of liberal and conservative smugness.