[PNWChris]

I’m glad I’m not alone doing this! I’ve gone so far as setting up a content blocker on my phone and putting Reddit on a blocklist.

I just can’t handle all the front page content that elicits outrage and/or incredulity, and the comment threads can be just as outrageous as the content itself.

Still, I dig so many of the communities on there, so I browse by setting aside time and hopping on my desktop.

I don’t use my desktop much (maybe a couple times a week), so I find it creates a nice mental partition from my day-to-day life and let’s me engage with Reddit on my own terms. Frankly, Reddit is a blast in small doses, so I’m happy with the balance I’ve struck.

[JamesDeepDown]

Reddit has turned into a clownish propoganda website. It is exponentially worse than any other social media website. It is a complete failure at every level.

[6gvONxR4sf7o]

Back when I was on facebook, my feed there was about as bad as reddit is now, but maybe that’s just my social bubble.

[rohitb91]

Reddit is just too far gone now. If you pay attention to the front page, different celebrities will be plastered over it at different times, usually coinciding with some new release.

The politics subreddit is an absolute abomination of one sided debate and everything else is shut down.

World news is basically America bad everywhere else good (but especially Canada and Scandinavia).

Trump was hitler.

Some small subreddits are useful but it’s exceptionally hard not to be sucked in to the rest of it, by design.

[trts]

I've found using old.reddit.com, unsubscribing from the default subs, and adblock still leave Reddit as one of the few enjoyable places on the internet for me. There is still legitimate, organic discovery and discourse that I find there.

The times I occasionally get pulled into the void are when following a user's content/comment that I found interesting, then finding all kinds of bile that they push to the main forums.

Reddit also has an underappreciated feature of being able to sort posts database style (e.g. Top Posts > All Time) to get a sense of what a particular community found transcendent or controversial. If the top posts are any kind of angry response to a current event that's one you can typically ignore.

[ehnto]

I have reddit blocked on most computers, HN is also blocked on my work computer but that's a productivity thing.