The fall of Reddit: Why it’s quickly declining into chaos
As someone who was involved with many internet communities long before reddit, it sounds like the author is just experiencing the eternal September[0].Pretty much since the day I found out about reddit in... 2008-ish?, everyone in the online communities I knew thought it was filled with awful pseudointellectual teenagers and college students, that the upvote/downvote system was horrible and encouraged people to post low-effort content, the moderators were overzealous and clueless, and in general there was no sense of community due to the size of the site + lack of individual identifiers beyond usernames, like avatars and signatures from a typical internet forum of the day. Basically, reddit is just as bad today as it was a decade ago.But I'm sure for people who had their first internet-social experiences on reddit, they remember it a lot more fondly.I will concede that objectively speaking, "new Reddit" is an abject failure (and the fact that old.reddit.com continues to exist is a testament to the such) and that it's much more heavily astroturfed by major corporations now.[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September