[bellgrove]

Maybe it's age - maybe it's because I don't use Reddit "properly" - but I feel like it has got worse over time and as the user-base has grown. I prefer to remain a lurker; no account, just viewing r/popular or occasionally specific sub-Reddits depending on what I'm looking for.

In ~2007 I'd go to Digg for low-brow content; pics of cats, posts for shock-value, humor, etc. and Reddit for news or discussion, etc. It felt almost like Slashdot but maybe less tech centric - maybe nostalgia is slanting my memory but that's how I remember it. It feels like Reddit has morphed into the former (with Ads now) - at least judging by popularity (or whatever the algorithm is feeding me). I might be wrong, it's above my paygrade and skills, but it feels like any changes that would need to happen to make Reddit a successful growth stock are at odds with what I liked about it in the first place.