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I think I stuck it out with Reddit for a lot longer than most. But I couldn’t ignore the shift in culture once it went public…
Content that I had been posting for years was suddenly getting taken down by mods for no actual, valid, rule-associated reason. My attempts to politely challenge this was met with arrogance and further bans, so I eventually gave up and just unleashed a barrage of verbal abuse on the mods and took my permabans as little notches on my bedpost.
Bots. Fucking bots everywhere. Like a flea infestation that everyone said they hated but never actually did anything about. It’s Facebook-levels of dead internet in a lot of the big subs, and the smaller esoteric ones were starting to lose the battle.
Reddit culture became a caricature of itself. I’m thinking of your typical redditisms you’d see in comments. And I think the final death rattle was seeing those same phrases pop up in the ads that filthed up my feed. The corporatization of Reddit was complete at that point.
So I left, did a little asking, and ended up here. Hi.