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.
Yeah, most “reddit sucks now” people don’t even remember the days when Reddit worshipped Rand Paul and r/jailbait, r/fat peoplehate, and r/spacedicks were around
The good times. 😌
The narwal bacons at midnight.
Clop clop motherfuckerssss
There was so much fucking awful content there for so long
I laugh when people say that it’s “leftist”, because it sure as fuck wasn’t, and isn’t now either
I feel like this is comparing (bad) apples with (bad) oranges. Yes, Reddit has always sucked, but the way in which it sucked has changed.
They got rid of the bad apples, but then they carried through with that momentum and managed to turn everything else bad in an entirely new way.
Can’t forget coontown in that mix either.
As much as I hate what reddit has become, it’s kind of an amazing example of media coverage manipulation and PR.
All that heinous shit on it and they still had the kind of celebrity AMAs they did.
Thank Ellen Pao. She made Reddit what it is and got shafted for it with no credit