It's become almost unreadable... is this by design? Maybe? Probably?
Almost every title is clickbait. For the most part it's screenshots from some social media site that appear profound but is so vague as to be meaningless. A LOT of contrived content. Currently the top post with 5000 upvote is a post about old people being in positions of power, but in the workplace that's usually not the case because they are senile. This isn't even a conspiracy.
Furthermore it's almost all image posts, again with the aforementioned and no actual content. The submissions statement, allegedly to alleviate the stupidity, plays no role in the upvote/downvote system, because it's often buried deep in the comments (as it's not stickied to the top of the comments). Furthermore, there seem to be no standards for the submission statement.
Furthermore, it's become a sort of reddit refuge for any "edgy" politics, usually right-wing. This is fine if it actually relates to a conspiracy, but a lot of it is just politics, political commentary, or social commentary. Moderation seems nonexistant despite 13 users being listed under mods, most of which are quite active.
What's unfortuntae abotu reddit having these nice communities, is that if/when something deemed inappropriate enters into those communities, they have the control and power to censor those, thus removing that edge.
Reddit got to where it was because it had that edge to it. It's not fisher price internet, but it's also not 4chan. That seems to be going now
Yeah, I understand it's like going to a resort.... everything looks all nice and well but 2 ft outside the fence the locals are shitting on the floor
Luckily that isn't my only resource so if i don't feel like dealing with Reddit there's other communities in other apps that provide the same thing for me.
The shame is reddit really coulda been something amazing - essentially a huge daily newspaper with whatever stories interest YOU. But... when they remove everything except one flavor it's not much of a buffet.
I'm surprised how long reddit has held, and tbh it's a little bit unfortunate.
Digg failed and everyone moved to reddit, and I assumed reddit wouldn't last as long. It seems reddit is dying a slow miserable death, rather than a fell swoop like digg.
Think of it like Simpsons
It DID die a long time ago...but keeping the corpse dancing is too valuable to them, so the Weekend At Bernies act must go on. Just ignore the smell.
They're both just lifeless shells of what they used to be, propped up by the money of their owners.