It has been going downhill for years, but right now its like it jumped of a cliff at the bottom of the hill. Into hell reddit goes, where it belongs!
this post was submitted on 27 Jun 2023
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I felt Reddit's quality started going downhill around 2021, which is not long after ~~they introduced the official app and~~ started allowing Google logins.
EDIT: Looks like the official app's been around longer than I thought. :O
Is the official app really that new??? I thought it was around since way before.
It turns out it came out in 2016. I was thinking 2018, but I was wrong. https://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/official-reddit-app/
In a way, it's been even longer than that, since they bought out Alien Blue in 2014, according to Wikipedia
Oh, that timing makes more sense haha all this time and the app still sucks balls.
I'm having this feeling way before the whole API story came out. At least the bigger subreddits were getting repetitive and boring, take AskReddit for example, in the past years you had the same 3 questions about dating, celebrities and what to do with with $ 1 million and every combination of that.
Some subreddits staid engaging and diverse, but most are just repetitive echo chambers.
I don't know, because I'm normally here rather than there, but you could test and find out. Take some screenshots before and after and do a double-blind test to see if you can tell.
I still enjoy /r/cfb and /r/collegebaseball
Otherwise, it seems the entire site has devolved into nothing but new bot accounts posting from the big book of repetitive karma gaining questions on /r/AskReddit. Seems everything else is a ghost town.
Who checks reddit anymore? I don't check the site at all. even if they did let third party apps back u/spez could always go back on his word. lemmy and the #fediverse where here to catch us when we became stranded!
reddit has been going down hill for over a decade at this point. if something better was a available it would have died a long time ago