It is probably in some way related to reddit. Reddit is just getting too gross. The signal to noise of educated people sharing interesting content vs "Americas funniest home videos" posts is just getting worse and worse.
It would be interesting to see if there are any major reddit changes correlated with the spike.
I think reddit occasionally puts me in a TikTok-ified home page a/b group which I find detestable.
I think sometime in the last year reddit also implemented "sign in to read" and locks you out of reading pages unless you go to old.reddit.com or sign in (for Ukraine content in particular). That just about ended reddit for me, and when they remove old.reddit.com, that will end reddit for me.
It would be interesting to see if there are any major reddit changes correlated with the spike.
I think reddit occasionally puts me in a TikTok-ified home page a/b group which I find detestable.
I think sometime in the last year reddit also implemented "sign in to read" and locks you out of reading pages unless you go to old.reddit.com or sign in (for Ukraine content in particular). That just about ended reddit for me, and when they remove old.reddit.com, that will end reddit for me.