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by tumblerz 2042 days ago
I hate to be seen this nakedly aggro, but reddit is broken ruins.

Obligatory cred: first used reddit in...2006? Used it to chat with friends around the world on subjects of mutual interest. It was fun, of course. I've mainly lurked since then.

Now? If one sifts through the records there is great info in there, but most subs I want to enjoy are overrun with, how to say, self-congratulatory amateurs. It's neither useful nor entertaining.

Even joke subs feel tired and decadent.

Meanwhile, mob rule downvoting pervades.

It is broken.

Good riddance.

1 comments

> Good riddance.

Is this a good thing? Of all social media, Reddit seems to me like it has the most potential to actually do something positive for society. They’ve seriously been dropping the ball with execution in the past several years but I don’t know that we’d be better off with them disappearing without a better alternative.