Reddit is garbage these days anyways. Even communities that are scientific/technical seem to be toxic these days. If you want to get to a comment that has any substance regarding some topic or article, you have to scroll all the way down.
The lacking management of Reddit have allowed it to become a pretty weird place, not quite as bad as Imgur, but the idea is much the same. The community have been left to it's own devices for many years, and now the owners are trying to get some control back, in an attempt to make a profit. They're a just so far removed from what the community have built that they have no idea how to manage the site anymore.
Not really, there are a bunch of small reddits that really is a good source of information and community. E.g. r/leathercraft, r/learnmath, r/godot and so on...
It's a tricky balance. I've been in small (~sub 500) subreddits that are worse than larger ones just because the mods don't enforce any posting requirements.
Ironically she's a felon who lives in her parents basement. Probably shouldn't be moralizing.
It seems heavily made up of very young people, which means a reliable trope is "I'm just getting into <genre> -- what are some good artists I should check out?"
But that's pretty harmless; you can just ignore them.
I enjoy trolling those users by posting circlejerk answers in the unironic subreddits.
It's a lot more diverse than Twitter, where it seems that only right wing bullshit is shown any more, or HN, where 90% of posters are men aged 20-40.
There are examples of this kind of strict imposition of dogma by fiat in every reddit community, on matters large and small.
The rot is root deep at this point if it's let things like this happen.
> aren't even from Portland
Ah, there we go ;-)