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Re:Finland to end "uncontrolled human experiment" with ban o... by Aurornis on Saturday January 31, 2026 @03:26PM (#46840468)
I agree completely about Reddit. It's a clickbait factory with a misinformation density that makes my Facebook feed look downright informative.

I was an early Reddit user. It felt like there was a distinct shift when the site went from programming and news topics to being meme-heavy. Then again recently when they started recommending niche subreddits into everyone's feeds so that even the small subreddits couldn't count on being islands of quality.

Now it's just a doomerism factory. The young Redditors I've known feel like they've had their hope about the future hollowed out and crushed. They open the site and consuming a stream of content telling them that everything is awful and will continue to be awful, and anyone who disagrees is shouted down and downvoted. It's a real crabs-in-a-bucket website now.

Re:Finland to end "uncontrolled human experiment" with ban o... by shevy-java on Saturday January 31, 2026 @05:00PM (#46841337)
> It felt like there was a distinct shift

Yeah there definitely was a change in reddit, probably more than once. It changed indeed. To the worse, too.