“It’s time we grow up,” says former moderator of jailbait subreddit.

  • drpeppershaker@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    It’s been pretty bad for a while now.

    I used to go to reddit to learn something new, to see the news for the day, to find a cool new hobby or interest, to read deep discussions about topics that I didn’t know that much about.

    But that was like 8 or 9 years ago.

    Lately the entire front page is doom bait, vaguely disguised racism, political trolling, violence, memes, and reposts.

    I used to browse /r/all about half of the time and my subscribed subs the other half.

    I muted serial reposters / content farmers whenever I noticed them, but this past year I hit a breaking point and I changed my default feed to subs only and intentionally chose to avoid /r/all.

    Sucks that I’m going to lose my niche communities on reddit, but I’ve been a lot happier here so far.

    • realitista@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Exactly. For guys like me who joined 16 years ago, it’s felt like a steady decline for a decade already. This is just a convenient time to jump to another platform because others will join me.