I found Reddit about 6 years ago, took a little while to understand what it was about but when I finally got it, I felt like I had found the best place on the internet. Somewhere I could be my true self without being myself. Every time I logged in, I felt free. Like solo roaming the streets of a new city in a foreign country for the first time. Intellectual conversation, assistance on vague problems, sharing life experiences, advice, watching porn you didn’t know existed, and then slipping out the back door when you were done.

As many here already know, those days are gone. The freedom is gone, it feels like a communist regime and it seems that their success is their downfall. The entire personality of Reddit has changed and will never come back, it even shows in the users. The community is broken, unauthentic and the Truth has left the conversation. Freedom is dead over there. What a shame. It’s like my favorite bar burnt down.

But the thing that really gets me is that it didn’t just change, it became the exact opposite. It has become the exact reason why someone built it, in the first place.

I read that it’s attracting the most new users of all the social apps. Best performing app, which means the end is near. Soon it will just be a limb of the pretend society that we used to hide from behind the walls of Reddit. And for some reason, I just want to see it burn.

  • Ledericas@lemm.ee
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    5 天前

    Reddit also power mods, and power hungry mods that love gatekeep. Remember the antiwork mod fiasco

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      1 天前

      That antiwork fiasco was a perfect example of a typical reddit mod. At least what my interpretation would be.

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        19 小时前

        that was so embarassing, they even allowed her/him back on the sub as a mod.

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          18 小时前

          Really? That sub went from being legit to being a global beacon for a failing platform in less than 30 seconds.

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            1 小时前

            its just all whining , quitting because of such a small disagreement with your boss? its not that serious. that was like 50-70% of the posts there.