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It’s kind of the same thing that’s happened to the internet. Everyone is now there instead of self-selecting smart, hacker types.

It’s a balance between making things easier to use while also that letting in everyone. And the hoi polloi are just regular people.

Not to sound snobby, but different people like different things. And McDonalds is a $200B company for a reason.

So now they’re on Reddit just being interested in regular stuff and raging and whatnot.

With the masses comes company attention and fake accounts and SEO so the corporate content is low value but prevalent.

I still use Reddit for my subreddits and get good info. But it’s harder to weed out things.

Finally, I had a curious interaction with a company trying to take over my subreddit. I started /r/grass fed years ago when I was interested in this. Not a lot of activity. Some marketing company for an unnamed company petitioned to take it over as if it was abandoned. When I responded that it’s not abandoned, just not very active and that they were welcome to post as much as they like the sub stayed with me as a mod. But they didn’t post anything. Makes me wonder what kind of company wants to mod a sub in order to participate. And how common this is.