I'm not really getting that vibe tbh. Sure, it tends to be more to the center than here, but SRD tends to be more progressive than most of Reddit (not a big accomplishment though). I think an important thing to keep in mind is that SRD is not a politically motivated community, and thus you'll get a mix of viewpoints and a mix of upvoted things since the sub is more about laughing at people than bringing people with a common stance together. In many threads you'll see a lot of SRS like comments, but in others you'll see more conservative ones, all with similar amounts of upvotes. It's a mixed bag, sort of like AskReddit. Sometimes in AskReddit you'll see terrible threads like "what's your shitty opinion" but then others enough are more progressive. Communities like SRD are just hard to categorize due to their politically heterogeneous nature. I would veer away from being binary when labeling subs like that as reactionary or progressive, it just doesn't work in my opinion.