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I stopped using Reddit as I've come to the same conclusions. I feel like I'm missing very little now What I did was slowly unsubscribe to all subreddits over t

I stopped using Reddit as I've come to the same conclusions. I feel like I'm missing very little now What I did was slowly unsubscribe to all subreddits over the course of 6-8 months; slowly 1-3 subs at a time. In the end when there was only one sub left, I lost the habit of going to the site.

mrweasel 6y ago
After a few years I decided that I should only see the sub-reddits I actively used/followed. As each became increasingly painful to visit I unsubscribed. Like you I ended up with just one, a local sub-reddit (/r/denmark), but that too was just an echo chamber of one particular world view. During the last Danish election I promised my self that I would close my reddit account after the election. I wanted to follow and debate the election on Reddit, but I pretty much gave up as it because clear that I'm apparently wrong about anything, according to the users on Reddit. Reddit and Facebook groups pretty much killed the forums, but the communities are somehow much worse. I suspect it's somehow related to how users would previous cluster in smaller forums, but now everyone descents on one Facebook group or one sub-reddit. Having both Facebook and Reddit is interesting though. It more or less proves, at least to me, that anonymity is not what makes people behaving badly towards others. The Facebook users are just as bad as those on Reddit. I believe that it's the social distance to others that makes some users behave like jerks.