I recently looked at Quora for the first time longer than 30 seconds, and jesus christ that place is basically a faux-academic Fox News comments section
reddit was never cool, but it has gotten worse because all the cool people are gradually leaving the site. like if you're still a redditor in 2024 what are you doing lmao
I think over the last 6-7 years they've implemented more and more shadow-deletion automoderation bullshit. Like they're using a lobotomized version of chatgpt to tell if you sound too angry (too many fuck words? comment won't show up) or "advocate violence" (say something like "the working class had to fight to the death for their rights"? comment won't show up) and it's pretty fucked because you don't even know your comment has been filtered unless you try to view it while logged out and see that it doesn't show up
Oh, it got noticeably worse, particularly within the last year or two. All valid complaints aside, I used to be able to block and curate my pages so I didn't have to worry about classic reddit-moments, but a lot of the good groups went private alongside the site really doubling down on its obvious fasc-posting pages and accounts. This caused a self-perpetuating issue of the well meaning groups and people and reddit continuing to jettison.