If you pull leftists out of a website what you are left with are centrists and the far right. The space becomes more toxic because you've pulled out the leftwing opposition to the far right.
As people generally want to occupy pleasant spaces, the outcome of doing this is that you've made the space less pleasant for everyone that isn't far right. Over time, this causes more and more people to abandon the space because it is insufferable for them. They go look for some other space that they actually enjoy. This makes the space even more toxic as it removes more and more people on the left-most side to the far right. The remaining people either assimilate to the behaviour of the space or leave it.
A steady rightwards march will continue to occur on reddit. It is in decline.
I predicted this and it is only the beginning.
If you pull leftists out of a website what you are left with are centrists and the far right. The space becomes more toxic because you've pulled out the leftwing opposition to the far right.
As people generally want to occupy pleasant spaces, the outcome of doing this is that you've made the space less pleasant for everyone that isn't far right. Over time, this causes more and more people to abandon the space because it is insufferable for them. They go look for some other space that they actually enjoy. This makes the space even more toxic as it removes more and more people on the left-most side to the far right. The remaining people either assimilate to the behaviour of the space or leave it.
A steady rightwards march will continue to occur on reddit. It is in decline.