Whatever your political leanings are...this is ridiculous:
It's just easier to separate on the political subs. But imagine something like that right there pushed out in subs you don't really think to look for it in, with a totally different message.
although the split here might be closer to 50/50 - we don't know
I'm sure reddit knows where the majority of their content comes from(API pull or not) and they seem to think it's worth losing them.
Let's hope a moderated and federated version means any communities of that persuasion can hive themselves off.
The best part about that is they can start their own instance, and your instances admins can block their instance so you'll never have to see it(as beehaw does with lemmygrad). Or if you want to see it, and your instance has them blocked, you can join another instance that doesn't block them or their actual instance.
I think it will work out great if we get a critical mass of content contributors.