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Their site has been thoroughly trashed already. It's an absolute cesspool of bots and groupthink. When I joined back in 2007, it was a completely different site

by alar44 5y ago

Their site has been thoroughly trashed already. It's an absolute cesspool of bots and groupthink. When I joined back in 2007, it was a completely different site full of actual discussion and not just cringey self deprecating nerd jokes and memes. It's a shame, but that's how things go. Once a thing gets that big, it gets its soul sucked out.

anyfoo 5y ago
It's true, early reddit was rather similar to HN actually. I can even pinpoint one of the cataclysmic events, reddit's "Eternal September" so to speak, where things accelerated downhill: When digg 4.0 was rolled out and failed spectacularly, leading to an influx of digg users to reddit. Prior to that I checked digg out every once in a while and got immediately annoyed of all the "cringey self deprecating nerd jokes and memes". And suddenly they were everywhere on reddit.
- alar44 5y ago
  Yup. I bounced from slashdot, to reddit, and now here.
luma 5y ago
Your experience on reddit is 100% the result of the subreddits to which you subscribe. Unsub ALL default reddits and you'll be surprised at how quickly the quality goes up.
- alar44 5y ago
  Yeah, I unsubbed the main subreddits years ago. I only stuck around for the tech stuff. And as they all grow bigger they turn into meme fests, "hey guys can you be Google for me?", stupid one liner in-jokes, and lowest common denominator shit posting.
14 5y ago
Avoid r/Canada just a toxic community where mods delete anything that offends them and goes against their beliefs. I honestly think it is also overrun by bots trying to steer an narrative. Everyone just argues and fights now it seems.
- Karsteski 5y ago
  I think a lot of the Canada-based subreddits are so political and group-thinky, for lack of a better term, that they are better off avoided at this point. /r/Ontario is the most glaringly obvious example of an echo chamber that I see no point in ever checking it, even though I live in Ontario. My small town's subreddit is decent though, just for the odd news stories every now and then. Best advice for reddit I can give is to stick to small, focused subreddits. In my case I only visit gaming/tech/dev/podcast related subreddits. The site is only usable like this now, imo.

by alar44 5y ago

anyfoo 5y ago

It's true, early reddit was rather similar to HN actually. I can even pinpoint one of the cataclysmic events, reddit's "Eternal September" so to speak, where things accelerated downhill: When digg 4.0 was rolled out and failed spectacularly, leading to an influx of digg users to reddit. Prior to that I checked digg out every once in a while and got immediately annoyed of all the "cringey self deprecating nerd jokes and memes". And suddenly they were everywhere on reddit.

alar44 5y ago
Yup. I bounced from slashdot, to reddit, and now here.

luma 5y ago

Your experience on reddit is 100% the result of the subreddits to which you subscribe. Unsub ALL default reddits and you'll be surprised at how quickly the quality goes up.

alar44 5y ago
Yeah, I unsubbed the main subreddits years ago. I only stuck around for the tech stuff. And as they all grow bigger they turn into meme fests, "hey guys can you be Google for me?", stupid one liner in-jokes, and lowest common denominator shit posting.

14 5y ago

Avoid r/Canada just a toxic community where mods delete anything that offends them and goes against their beliefs. I honestly think it is also overrun by bots trying to steer an narrative. Everyone just argues and fights now it seems.

Karsteski 5y ago
I think a lot of the Canada-based subreddits are so political and group-thinky, for lack of a better term, that they are better off avoided at this point. /r/Ontario is the most glaringly obvious example of an echo chamber that I see no point in ever checking it, even though I live in Ontario. My small town's subreddit is decent though, just for the odd news stories every now and then. Best advice for reddit I can give is to stick to small, focused subreddits. In my case I only visit gaming/tech/dev/podcast related subreddits. The site is only usable like this now, imo.