Reddit seems to have well and truly jumped the shark. Most of their communities are barely moderated wastelands. Bot activity is absolutely rampant. It had a golden age, but I have no idea how this survives in the post LLM world.
Barely moderated?
Part of the issue with modern Reddit is newbies can’t contribute in subreddits without breaking the numerous Byzantine rules powermods make.
It might get worse soon across all sites if governments mandate AI content moderation: