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Same. A few years back when there was a big shift to make reddit Social Media™ (which it is not) because that’s what gets money from investors they started clamping down on anything non-circlejerky because they were trying to grow subs and promote it as the Happiest Place On The Intarwebs.

Disneyland with the death penalty.

They were going to ask for volunteers from Musk’s legions of loyal fans, but then they realised the subjects needed to have brains.

I just love the assumption that we have to have brain implants (why? Because L. Ron Musk said so?)

Truegaming was like that: you had to make a post that fostered a discussion…but you couldn’t frame it in any was as something that could possibly be asking readers a question, or imply a demand for reader input.

So, you had to write something that people would reply to and not reply to at the same time…

You’ve got a bunch of nerds whose sole positive trait they ascribe to themselves is being smart, so they’ll do anything to prove that - it’s the only thing keeping them going. That was reddit.

That’s my main desire when not wanting this to be Reddit 2.0, that and a move away from the heavily US-centric bias, in views, content and assumption it’s the default lived experience of the users.

Unfortunately, American lensing isn’t a function of reddit, it’s a function of Americans, full stop.

Heh, the growing passive-aggression the last few years definitely was Toxic Ex-Girlfriend territory.