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In my early years of reddit, it always seemed like a place where people really knew what they were talking about. It was exciting!
That is... until I started posting about things that I really knew about and I quickly realized that most redditors had no clue and were talking out their asses, however convincing it actually sounded.
Early on when it was a smaller user population of decidedly more geeky people, you could trust the so-called Reddit Experts more often than not. Just like any community, once it reaches the mainstream it begins to lose its identity/charm/uniqueness and then at some arbitrary number of people it all goes to shit. You could see this with individual subreddits again and again, and then eventually with the whole site.
I was always happy to chime in with my expertise and help myself and others learn, but I just got banned for calling clarence thomas a “cunt” because it’s sexist hate speech, so along with the massive influx of new users with no concept of (or vested interest in) reddit’s identity, they’re also banning ~13 year users like me for no-no words. The shittiness is compounding.
Sorry this just turned into a reddit hate rant. I’m still bitter about what a shit website it’s become, I used to love it. I looked at a thread the other day and like 30% of the comments had been “removed by moderator” on a post that had no conceivable incitement to TOS-breaking comments.
Umm.. username checks out? Lol
^(It^ ^feels^ ^weird^ ^saying^ ^that^ ^here^ ^on^ ^lemmy)^