What's sad is that Reddit was a different place when I first joined. It was liberal overall. But I would describe it as center left with a touch of Libertarianism. A lot of its userbase were free speech absolutists. I also remember most Reddit users at the time being pro-gun. What started happening (I think) is that many of the containment subreddits were "defeated" and those users slowly worked their way into being power mods. Mods for much hated subreddits at the time like /r/rShitRedditSays and /r/jailbait now run most of Reddit. It's hard to believe
this was upvoted on Reddit 11 years ago.