IMO, the increased toxicity of Reddit is due to user base growth. Much worse content used to be openly allowable on Reddit, but the users who posted that stuff

IMO, the increased toxicity of Reddit is due to user base growth. Much worse content used to be openly allowable on Reddit, but the users who posted that stuff were more content to stay in their hate holes and leave the rest of the site alone. Unfortunately, even the small subs that are just as good as the Reddit of old still have a time bomb of when the subscriber base grows to the point that the mods can’t stop the user base from spamming irrelevant IRL political discussion in the comments.