alt Hacker NewsDo you think it’s always been that way?
I have gone through a slow attrition of “serious” subs over the years as they’ve all slowly become toxic. I pretty much just have goofy, fun stuff or niche interests left at this point.
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floorsthelimit • yesterday at 3:24 PM
That’s a healthy way to use Reddit. Everything else is mostly rage bait.
gs17 • yesterday at 5:45 PM
That's how I've treated it too, if a sub has gone from making me happy to making me angry, it's gone, and "cute picture of cats" seems to be more resistant.
1970-01-01 • yesterday at 3:25 PM
Cat picture pollution arrived around 2005 with Facebook. Directly driving it was the new idea of a cellphone camera. AOL and the era before it didn't have the cat picture pollution problem because they didn't have the technology to post them.
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It’s why I had to give up Reddit entirely.
Impossible to follow any topic without it devolving into political flame wars.