Reddit has built a reputation for being "not social media", but in my opinion it has come to embody most of what people say they hate about social media. If I visit Reddit without logging in, the content on the home page is disastrously bad: Videos of fights with comments from people cheering on the violence. Screenshots of exaggerated Tweets taken out of context. 10 different stories about the latest tragedy somewhere in the world and editorialization about how it's a sign the world is coming to an end. Ragebait videos taken from TikTok and other social medias for the express purpose of getting Redditors riled up and angry.

I know the story goes that you can avoid it by carefully selecting the right subreddits, but in my experience the trash content bleeds into everything. Even the technical subreddits I followed have become inundated with low-effort posts and people who just want to pick fights.

> I don't think they're losing anything of value when I stop browsing. I've been using old. for years, and always been pretty strict about blocking ads.

Thanks for being honest about it. I suspect Reddit is well aware that the average user (who views ads) is not likely to be among the angrier power users who are pulling the strings. If anything, I'm starting to get a sense that the non-commenters and casual users are getting sick of the mods using their power to shut the conversation down. The average user doesn't use Apollo and doesn't care about this drama. I think it's easy to forget this when the vocal minority of power users are upvoting angry topics and mods are shutting down subreddits.