Funny how the platform still runs on their unpaid labor, isn’t it? This has a lot more to do with purging anyone that disagrees with them. They somehow can simultaneously denigrate unpaid labor and benefit from it in 2025. A shocking feat of cognitive dissonance.
Sorry magazine, you clearly don’t know what the hell you’re talking about. I’m now using Reddit the least I’ve ever used it since about 2008ish.
Hell I don’t consider myself someone that uses Instagram, but I still open it more than Reddit now (though if anyone else has an alternative equivalent way to keep up with my local food scene as new places open, I’m all ears, but I’m pretty sure they all just post to Insta)
Reddit died in 2023, I’m not interested in whatever is domain squatting there now
Unfortunately the normies have replaced us, and there’s a lot more of them, so I’m not surprised they’re seeing higher number overall, even if the average normie probably doesn’t use Reddit nearly as much as we did
That has been my experience. I sometimes hit up the more niche subs for advice and the experience has gone downhill.
This has been my experience. There was that whole aspect to reddit that you’d be in a sub and some random 20 year expert would chime in with extremely in depth advice.
Now I feel like everywhere on Reddit is nothing but 14 year olds (or people that never matured past 14). It’s not that reddit didn’t have a ton of these people before, but now it’s all that’s left.
Combined with their decision to ‘suggest’ posts from subs you aren’t subscribed to resulting in many subs getting totally uninterested people commenting and the whole magic spark of Reddit is all but gone. The community aspect is dead in favor of yet another engagement algorithm.
It’s rapidly becoming Facebook, but for millennials.
I’ve never felt more out of touch with the mainstream. Like do people know how much these giant social media platforms suck?
Us nerds aren’t in total control of the internet anymore, and the vast majority of non nerds value having as little friction as possible in their usage of the internet over not letting corpo fucks hold too much power