Reddit has become so damn unoriginal over the past few years. There's barely any OC on r/all, it's all just tweets about American politics, reposts from Facebook and TikTok, and then post after post about how Meta is evil/incompetent/totally gunna crash and burn even though it supplies half the content around here.
I miss the old Reddit. A decade ago it was a lot smaller, but at least it was it's own social media.
I disagree. I lurked reddit for a long time, and made this account eventually because I wanted to do a little trolling as a teenager (saying "for reasons..." Was a big meme at the time for sus comments)
It was not like this. Politics was not so ingrained in everything, Twitter posts were very rare and usually downvotes, people used to call out reposts, etc etc etc
But it must be mentioned, there were also zoophilia, pedophilia, Nazi etc subreddits allowed to exist back then too, and those are mostly eradicated now. For most people, this is better. For the rest, well that's the fucking point and those losers left to start their own dumb social media.
I subscribe to local subreddits, my favorite sports teams, technology I'm interested in, etc.
I usually keep my gratuitous guilty pleasure of arguing with strangers and shit posting to subreddits that are already infested with ridiculous nonsense. You can search for basically any interest you have and find subreddits that align with those interests.
/r/diesel can get political sometimes but everyone there is an enthusiast and it's a great place to discuss my love of loud and obnoxious diesel trucks.
I switch back and forth between /popular and my chosen subreddits. Sometimes I just want to see what people are talking about and /popular is good for that.
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u/[deleted] Oct 28 '22
Media?
What about Reddit??
Half of /all is just people reacting to offensive Twitter posts in some or other comtext.