whelp, there it is

  • chinpokomon@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    It got popular and lost its sense of community. It used to be common, even in large subreddits, to see someone’s username and recognize it again on another subreddit on the site. I made friends this way. It was sometimes less common, but you sometimes would see someone you knew IRL – do you let them know?

    Once karma became a currency, sometimes exchanged for real currency to buy influence, that’s when Reddit started changing. Like many things, it fell for commercialization.

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      1 year ago

      Only a couple years ago, a friend of mine was at the top of reddit with a family photo he took. He eventually deleted it because of all the ugliness that inevitably comes from a huge thread where an adult woman and child are in it.

      It used to not be that way.