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[โ€“] [email protected] 31 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Lost a lot of my hobby subs and spend more time posting political crap now.

[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago

Same. My reddit feed was well curated with small hobby and humor subs specific to my interests. Without the cesspool of "default" subs it was actually a nice place, and if the official mobile app wasnt a pile of shit I'd still be there despite all the other fuckery going on with it.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Without my highly curated subs list I made to avoid propaganda, outrage, and cringebait (subs devoted to make you cringe or laugh at people, idk what to call it) I'm kinda stuck with /196 and a bunch of stuff I don't care about. Anyway, I too have been sucked into political crap and I'm over it.

Tonight I put in a some keyword filters to cut out the Israel-Palestine War, and stuff. So there's that.

I miss all my cool art subs, mental health subs, and media subs so much.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I'm with you. I had reddit tuned to make me feel better. I saw cute animals and silly memes, cool niche hobbies, active small communities. Here it's almost entirely doom and gloom. Fighting and arguing. Unfunny, serious memes.

Makes me very glad I found a friendly discord community to be in.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Yeah that's what i discovered too (atleast on lemmy world). Its gotten to the point where i moved back to reddit because im too old to engross myself with politics and hate 24/7. After the constant DDOS attacks all my niche subs i followed died and the rest are just posts ripped from Reddit.