Less alt right stuff here on Lemmy than there was back in 2010, though. Early Reddit was full of libertarian ideals and free speech absolutists, before the consequences of those positions became apparent in the later half of that decade.

It was around Trump’s first presidency that half of Reddit realized the other half of Reddit wasn’t just memeing, the neocons went to their safe spaces, and Reddit began purging itself of all that was not marketable (good and bad).