i opened reddit again today because silksong is finally out. went to see how the subreddit is going. (sadly, the silksong communities here are rather sane. r/silksong is still about 40-50% insane, but more sane posts are coming in)
front page is r/nextfuckinglevel. guy chopping wood uses a tire to keep the log upright to chop the wood easier.
i remember making a reddit acount because r/fiftyfifty and r/watchpeopledie. now its just advertiser friendly r/mildlyinteresting at best making the front page.
Gallowboob basically destroyed the site by popularizing “safe” feel-good subreddits like r/nextfuckinglevel. Then of course, the tumblr diaspora fiasco.
It’s textbook enshittification. Start with a great but unprofitable idea that attracts users, monopolize the market, then debase the service to extract cash from the cornered userbase. We have to show them that we aren’t going to put up with it. Any enshittified service should be immediately boycotted.
I refuse to use the dogshit app. It’s 90% advertisements, 9% distracting animated elements you can’t turn off (their big middle finger to neurodivergent folks btw) and 1% content, which is essentially just bot reposts.
I hope the platform crashes and burns HARD because it’s just a shitty shell of what it once was.
Reddit is the equivalent of the group of teens/kids in school that bully people. Only a small % are accepted if you bow down to their demands.
My rule of thumb is to delete any service with “inserted content” I’m unable to block
“i remember making a reddit acount because r/fiftyfifty and r/watchpeopledie.”
Fuck you, you fucking twisted death cultist.
There’s a reason why I quit too though. We allowed to be edgy teenagers, then we grow up
