Comment on Is This How Reddit Ends?
Emmie@lemm.ee 1 day ago
I don’t know if Reddit will end, however, it has become increasingly unusable. I just want tech news and light discussion of them, but I get so much more ‘extras’ I never signed up for.
Comment on Is This How Reddit Ends?
Emmie@lemm.ee 1 day ago
I don’t know if Reddit will end, however, it has become increasingly unusable. I just want tech news and light discussion of them, but I get so much more ‘extras’ I never signed up for.
Powderhorn@beehaw.org 1 day ago
I think we’re seeing the death of scale in social media. Ten years ago, the most heavily trafficked subreddits were where you wanted to be. Now, I’m only in niche communities that have yet to be replicated in the Fediverse. Unless you unsubscribe from anything remotely popular, Reddit has been a firehose of bullshit for several years.
Emmie@lemm.ee 1 day ago
Even the niche it seems like people lost their minds. I like AI and predicting future science and world developments but honestly there is no one subreddit when people can just calmly discuss stuff and share news about it all without being just… strange
Powderhorn@beehaw.org 1 day ago
For the most part, r/futurology is pretty tightly modded. I’m also in r/energy, which seems to be more of a self-policing affair; bullshit is immediately called out and downvoted.
But essentially, Reddit ceased being the front page of the internet years ago, and now it’s where I go after I’ve read all my RSS feeds, Beehaw, The Guardian and NPR. Looks like we might be losing that last one.