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reddit was great when Digg existed. It was a niche community where you could find experts sharing information about all sorts of topics.

Now it's just a hivemind of low information opinions, hot takes, and brainrot.

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That certainly applies to the biggest subs, but there are usually still high-quality subs for most topics.

Small subs are more diverse and accommodating IME. Worse than popular though are flaired-only subs. They are so heavily moderated that posting feels like an exercise in guess-the-unspoken rules.

Because they also ban everyone they disagree with

There isn’t one “they”, each subreddit does its own moderation

There are still networks that ban users for posting on /r/Israel and /r/Jewish. Famously the ones that run /r/interestingasfuck, /r/therewasanattempt, /r/soccer. /r/bannedforbeingjewish tracked this until it was banned.

Reddit itself can and still do ban users at site-level.

Which would be fine if there was a good reason to do so but there often isn't

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