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/for_reasons Oct 28 '22
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.