God I hope they don't flood Lemmy

Its both because they pander to the popular, which is why anything thays actually useful, funny, or satirical gets banned on that site.

That’s the problem with reddit

Mods have complete control of how left or right a given community is so you will always see the one you don’t like if you look for it

Like someone said below, it's the mods that are the problem.

thats that controversy feeding algorithim

It could be that people are just getting more polarized or at least more vocal about all political beliefs? Maybe? I'm not really sure, tbh.

depends on which sub you go to.

People are so fucking stupid. Liberals complain that Reddit is shit now because of the conservatives. Conservatives complain that it's shit because of the liberals. Well which is it?

Slightly rephrased.