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Just looked at the reddit front page for the first time in a long while. Not signed in. Christ on an actual bike. Every other post is an ad, and what isn;t an ad is hot garbage. What has happened to reddit, and when did this happen? How does it still have users?
3 years ago · 👍 martin, kevinsan, mntn, cobradile94, humrochagf, goodclover
I found all these news "community sites" such as Reddit, Discord, etc... Barely usable as well as readable; and I don't understand why are acclaimed, sometimes I think that it's just m getting older.... 🤷♂️ · 3 years ago
@dimitrigorvachov Yeah I know, I sort of built my own at https://reddit.marginalia.nu/ -- that is part of why I haven't been up to speed with the state of reddit lately. That, and several years worth of retreating to a dwindling number of high quality special interest subreddits. · 3 years ago
I felt the same looking at Reddit recently. Even when you use a 3rd party app that removes the ads and other shady stuff, it’s still bland and boring. · 3 years ago
there are clients for reddit that do not show the ad posts you are talking about.
I mainly use reddit because there are communities for basically every interest you have.
If you could inform me of a community for horror stories similar to reddit's nosleep community then I have a reason to switch.
Also, one rule I follow when using certain sites is never to look at the front page/top posts because most of the time its always something not worth looking at · 3 years ago
Marketers and politics utterly destroyed it. It's been sad to see it go, but there was no saving it. I almost never visit anymore unless I'm doing some obscure search. · 3 years ago
I never used reddit until I wanted API access a year or so ago, so I don't know what it was like before. It always felt vacuous and, even on my local city's group, conversations felt entirely ephemeral. The majority of posts seemed like astro-turfing or scam-fishing, and virtue-signalling, and the voting system seemed to be (ab)used to keep it like that. I think people stay for their karma-fix. · 3 years ago