I tried that approach and found that even in my niche interest subreddits that I subscribe too that somehow politics always found a way in, and became a top post for some cheeky reason.

Moderators also often selectively enforce the “no politics” rule either by only removing political things that conflict with their personal political views or by defining things that are political as not political so they can continue or vice versa.

I think a big part of the problem of Reddit is that there’s a handful of mods who just moderate everything

I wish there was a Reddit without all that crap, I’d pay money to use it