- The recommended subreddits are all just repost farms where people pretend not to get the joke or repost videos with less context each time
- The games they put into the mobile view are fun for about 1 play but now they are half my feed
- my local subreddit is so obviously being astroturfed in preparation for November that you normal users are calling it out
It seems like on all fronts Reddit is getting so much worse.
But is it getting worse faster or is it just because I have a new account and I took the bait and interacted with dumb features?
I got banned by AI about a month ago, being the sucker that I am, I created a new account, so I’m not 100% if this is the experience new redditors get/want or if it’s being pushed on everyone.
I quit Reddit a long time ago but yes, especially during an election year, the internet just cyclically becomes nearly non-functional for about 6 months before the metrics dip and temporarily self-correct.
I remember even during 2008 when bots weren’t nearly as bad and the internet was more than just 6 megasites, there was a pattern of infighting and political discourse that would always just run right up to the edge of destroying communities and then back off a little.
I figure there’s some very human nature element to it and it’s pretty depressing but I always manage to find new hobbies and people during these tumes because everyone if getting sick of their comfort zones being raided and trying to find where the sane people are. Just hang in there, until there’s some sort of regulation or the technocracy that runs the internet is somehow broken you just have to tread water and keep true to your own sense of ‘normal’.
Or go camping. Camping is good.