[OC] Reddit User Demographics vs Other Social Media

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1. Graphic created by me using excel, all data from Pew Research Center study here: https://www.pewresearch.org/journalism/fact-sheet/social-media-and-news-fact-sheet/ They have many more details than shown here, including methodology and more/better graphics.

   I thought Reddit was interesting as it’s an outlier in almost every category. Compared to other social media platforms, reddit has…

   – The most men (and least women)

   – The most liberals/democrats (and least conservatives/republicans)

   – The most college educated users

   – The most White+Asian users combined (and least Black+Hispanic users combined)

   Most of this seems to be sort of “common knowledge” on reddit, but it’s interesting to see it backed up with data.

2. It’s interesting to see the republican/democrat trend. I feel like some years ago, reddit was publicly perceived (and would be classified as) signficantly more conservative and right-wing-adjacent. It used to be a message board similar to 4chan, but it has evolved into a thing of its own and turned much more liberal since it went into the mainstream.

3. Are there any stats of how and who Meta throttled down views of? Liberal vs. MAGA? Everyone talks about censorship but if no one sees a post, isn’t that a type of censorship as well? The type of censorship no one ever sees, literally.

4. Now do Reddit mods

   1) Sex: none 

   2) Politics: F U if you aren’t what I am

   3) Race: Ban 

5. Reddit feels much more liberal (like 80%)

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