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Since the API thing it’s all bots and angry people.

That part about who reddit represents is so true. I feel so alienated from those people unless it's a niche hobby topic. They overwhelming represent a cross-section of white middle class office workers who were all told they were gifted as kids. They're so smug and smarmy. They're all addicted to porn too.

I found a new, fairly specific sub that seemed pretty harmless yesterday, and being bored out of my mind at my job I decided to look thru some of the top all time

I think the fifth or so post had a top comment of a mod asking people to not be racist and someone following that with a wikipedia entry about how all Chinese eat dogs and have a holiday for it and just so much unbridled racism sooooo...no, not just a meme

My only explanation is that it's a window into the psyche of the American middle class email job worker and they're so fucking brain rotten that it hurts to even look at.

They get their personality cues from, like, fucking The Office and it shows.

like, the last subreddits i was active in were a few niche band subreddits and 196 just as it was starting to get worse and worse bcs like, as shit as the western chauvinism in there is, it was at least, idk, a space where i could be openly queer and shit, even though it was like stuffed to the gills with chasers (at least they weren't open transphobes / queerphobes ig) and i was kind of just a pick me femboy egg gradually coming to terms with non gender comformity.

but yeah, eventually i got banned for telling someone to minecraft themselves for doing like an "upvote to scare the tankies" thing over an image of Syngman Rhee, either that or for saying basically the same to someone saying that the US should go back into afghanistan, i cant remember which one the ban was for, and then i decided to like, just delete my account

Sometimes im on reddit and i forget that im not on hexbear and im like boy the threads sure are sarcastic today

There's like 5 subs I check on every now and then and none of them are mainstream. Reddit had been an astroturfed liberal hellscape for a while but I'm just completely done with it now. I think a lot of the big corporate sponsored social media is on life support, Reddit and twitter are destroying themselves, nobody cares about facebook/meta and everyone else has either moved on to smaller independent platforms or group chat. I hope this trend continues because relying on techbros and megacorps for a public forum of communication could never end well.

Reddit is only good for one thing for me anymore, sports discussion. Anything else it's like you said, just painfully liberal and painfully lame

I only use it for specific game subreddits anymore, but even that's slowly being supplanted by discord servers

Every sub has lost major traffic. Here are three random examples

https://subredditstats.com/r/whatisthisthing

https://subredditstats.com/r/visiblemending

https://subredditstats.com/r/skincareaddiction

whoever is left is... a robot, oblivious, addicted, posting into the void... or what

I deleted my account and feel so much better. I still browse to keep up with news or interests that don’t have communities on here, but there is so much less psychic damage when I’m not engaging.

I do find myself missing /r/TGCJ and /r/gamingcirclejerk but I don't really feel like remaking my account.

I think reddit is some sort of louche extraction machine by the archons while we're stuck in samsara. Reddit is only suffering these days. I used to use an app that could filter out by sub, so I would never run across the emotionally draining posts (about 95% of them) and then all apps were banned, and it's worse for my mental health than going at it without a condom.

Honestly I've gotten really desensitized/tolerant of most of Reddit's bullshit so I still browse and find enough stuff I enjoy that its not too much psychic damage. But I totally get how its too much for most leftists.

I’m back to posting on reddit again and I’m not holding anything back but I haven’t been banned yet for some reason. One of my comments linking to the wikipedia page for the Maoist uprising against landlords was removed from a thread complaining about landlords, that’s the worst that’s happened.

I only go on it for news/shit talking on the NWSL Thorns and the MLS Timbers. Every now and again I auto pilot looking at the main page and it’s just awful, all the subs that I used to enjoy have turned into husks of their former self’s.