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At first it was all about presenting data in an original looking way. In the end it was about pushing political ideas in your throat using a plain bar graph. It was not about sharing something interesting you found but about taking advantage of a captive audience.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

r/conspiracy, it always had it fair share of nutjobs but it also had some awesome posts every once in a while in which someone would take a theory and break it down in points with good sources. The comments been even better, the top comment almost always was. Point 3, 4 and 7 have been disproven here, here and here, but 5 and 6 are solid further info here.

Over the years those high quality posts became less frequent and after the ban of td it fully turned into a right wing misinformation campaign with topics like the paradise papers completely ignored.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Same for me. Pizzagate made me uneasy, but the way it changed after td was banned was enough for me to unsub and never go back.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Reddit just seems like all of the subs have some kind of nefarious political agenda to them, one way or another.

r/conspiracy is right wing r/politics is left wing r/publicfreakouts is left wing r/actualpublicfreakouts is right wing

It’s just absolutely ridiculous and seems 100% designed to be that way. The whole thing just feels so fake

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Reddit has clearly gone the route of TikTok and Facebook: engagement >> user experience

It’s no mystery why Reddit feels so negative these days

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

r/DataIsBeautiful, RIP. It was one of several -- actually, MANY -- subreddits that astounded me at first but quickly became a bore, as the quality of the posts collapsed like me without my walker. Something about the upvote/downvote system seems to encourage crap, or maybe (my increasing suspicion) the people on Reddit are now outnumbered by the bots.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

r/oddlysatisfying. I remember when it was actually things that were satisfying. Animations were common, and they were really good. At the end, it was just another dump for stuff that barely fit the sub.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

/maybemaybemaybe

Originally it was a sub that had content where something hung in the balance and you weren’t sure what the outcome was going to be, sort of like nononoyes or whatever.

It turned into tiktok/scripted videos with a scripted outcome. Garbage.

/BIFL (buy it for life)

This one struggled for a while. At first it was artisanal created stuff that was low-run, high-cost, “hipster” stuff. Like hand-made boots, hand forged knives, hand-stitched leather goods like satchels. Then it was Darn Tough Socks. Lots of socks. Fjallraven. Jansport backpacks. Then people began to debate what could be BIFL because a lot of people wanted to post long-lasting electronics, but the rebuttal was always that electronics get outdated or unsupported. While these last two things were being debated, old shit that people found in their parent’s or grandma’s attic began to appear. 1970s electric carving knives. 1895 singer sewing machines. 1970s electric drills. Shit nobody had used in decades, used rarely, or couldn’t be bought anymore.

I left at that point.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My favourite subreddit used to be /r/mildlyinteresting, then came /r/interestingasfuck and /r/damnthatsinteresting and I honestly can't tell the difference between them any more.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Meirl really degenerated over the years. It went from being specifically "selfies of the soul" to being just a generic meme sub

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It was /r/TIHI for me. It started out with genuinely bizarre and borderline disturbing things being posted, and devolved into half-baked memes and shitposts.

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