It's so disappointing because it was like the only good place for true discussions originally.

Then they started censoring topics they disagreed with and subreddits they didn't like to make it more marketable, then sold to condé nast (Vogues parent company and many others).

After that it got even worse with the censorship. Advertising got more and more intrusive, they killed third party apps so you were only looking at their ads, made the mobile experience horrible to push users to the app so you can't use an ad blocker, and finally, got rid of r/all so you're forced to the algorithm or specific subreddits which are heavily moderated.

It literally just became another platform to shove ads in our face with the intrinsic value of the platform eroded to the point where you can't even trust the discussions aren't just marketing interns or bots talking to each other.