That's what disappointed me when I tried reddit alternatives. Politics and culture wars were there too, but niche subs were nowhere to be found. They don't seem to understand what made reddit worse in the first place.
So I went back to reddit.
I also think this is the magic that forums used to have, and Reddit is basically a convenient platform for forum hosting.
That is basically what stackoverflow solves by aggressive moderation and closing duplicates also aggressively.
But then you get “people on this site are bad and don’t like me” where only thing they do is dealing with amateurs.
So for me it is interesting problem to solve and I hope GPT will be able to solve it by dealing with amateurs questions and leaving forums for professionals to have better space for discussion.
Saying that because I noticed this effect as a young festival goer. As the size of the event grew, the number of people I'd much rather not be around also increased. I am suspecting something similar is also at play here, in addition to the bot-effect...