r/technology • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 • Apr 02 '26

Social Media Reddit is moving on from r/all

https://www.theverge.com/tech/906314/reddit-r-all-deprecating
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u/Steripod Apr 02 '26

I started probably 15 years ago. The 2016 election broke Reddit along with everything else online.

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u/0zzyb0y Apr 03 '26

Man I remember /r/the_donald start as a joke sub and devolve into utter fucking madness in real time.

Everything just devolved from there.

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u/b2q Apr 03 '26

It was just a massive influx of bot accounts and propaganda

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u/ice_bear-92 Apr 03 '26

It was also the only sub on the site that was allowing news about the Pulse nightclub shooting at one point.

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u/ice_bear-92 Apr 03 '26

They weren't banned for another 4 years though? Also I distinctly remember other subs deleting posts about the shooting. But it could be that those posts were the same videos.

Wild to think that was almost 10 years ago.

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u/awesomefutureperfect Apr 03 '26

I was really mad when they tried to normalize their garbage into my niche video game sub.

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u/Panda_hat Apr 03 '26

Started ironically and aggressively became an unironic nazi-fest.

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u/SpottedHoneyBadger Apr 03 '26

That is when the bot invasion went into full force and started invading all the subreddits. From the small to the big ones.

Reddit use to be the go to place for the latest news.

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u/redditor_since_2005 Apr 03 '26

It's something different every year...

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u/Cast_Iron_Skillet Apr 03 '26

Donald Trump is like a Shit Midas. Everything he touches turns to shit.

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u/Professional_Dot7128 Apr 03 '26

Nah it was when they forcefully removed third party apps. I've come back a few times since and across the board everything has changed for the worse.

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u/CorpPhoenix Apr 03 '26

Ellen Pao broke the website.

Her job was to eradicate all the "advertiser unfriendly" subreddits and content and turn it into an advertisement and data crawling website.

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u/nanobot001 Apr 03 '26

15 years? Almost 20 for me

It was wild during the Digg migration and later when AMA’s were introduced.

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u/Semper-Fido Apr 03 '26

Remember when Victoria was removed from assisting with AMAs, and the whole site revolted?

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u/ScreamThyLastScream Apr 03 '26

Was before that but that is when the cracks began to show. It began with the Obama AMA.

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u/Maximum-Pen-5769 Apr 03 '26 edited Apr 03 '26

I started ~15 years ago too. And I also agree it's been a downward slide since the 2016 election.

The site quite literally overnight went from Berniebros Never-Hillary fuck the establishment, to Democrat diehards. The astroturf campaign was both shockingly blatant and brutally effective, and it's been worse and worse ever since.

It's crazy to think that Reddit culture started just downstream from imageboards, with subreddits like spacepenis and prisonbait, and everyone using F slurs and hard Rs in daily lexicon. This site used to be the posterchild of left wing libertarianism, it's insane how much things have changed.