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

When you let google read your site, let alone sign deals with them, you create commercial incentives to rank/post on reddit. Everything that follows is inevitable and obvious.

They have now positioned themselves as an ai-slop source of truth. Expect everyone interested in ranking well in google's AI Overview -- essentially every marketer -- to treat reddit as a high-priority slop/advertising target.

You can get dirty by digging, of course. But there are still excellent communities on reddit that you really can't find anywhere else.

The entire internet is really not much more than a strip mall at this stage with every site being subscription or ad based.

Lists, X/Y comparisons, em dashes, rhetorical questions... Just has a gross feeling to it.

I stay far away from the front page, even my own. I use an rss reader for all the subs and when I want to comment I login into old.reddit.

For me the magic of a niche community like a subreddit or HN is when a 99th percentile expert in the subject shows up and gives everybody a brilliant lecture on the actual truth of things. These are not 99th percentile in Reddit use or post count or any of those things.

Oh, that’s because it’s LLM slop.