Same here - I was on Reddit for close to 20 years. After the purge, I had to stop because it literally became unbearable. Reddit is now fake dead pet pity posts, brain dead relationship outrage baiting, unintelligible post titles and comments, and barely obfuscated advertising.
Apparently, it’s more profitable than ever; a monument to enshitification.
I’ve only been off reddit for 6 months or so, but I went back recently, and was amazed at the amount of clickbait type post, like the ones that you see on Facebook from some random account you don’t follow, just obvious engagement farming with no quality, I wondered if it had been like that for a while and I just hadn’t noticed.
Same here - I was on Reddit for close to 20 years. After the purge, I had to stop because it literally became unbearable. Reddit is now fake dead pet pity posts, brain dead relationship outrage baiting, unintelligible post titles and comments, and barely obfuscated advertising.
Apparently, it’s more profitable than ever; a monument to enshitification.
This is the year of enshittification and evil supervillains.
I’ve only been off reddit for 6 months or so, but I went back recently, and was amazed at the amount of clickbait type post, like the ones that you see on Facebook from some random account you don’t follow, just obvious engagement farming with no quality, I wondered if it had been like that for a while and I just hadn’t noticed.
If you read their quarterly reports, they make vague references to “machine translation” and “foreign markets” propping up their business.
Reddit’s English language clientele is dying, but the Indian is skyrocketing.