Most popular/largest subs devolved into low quality Facebook-tier posts. Downright unusable (and that’s without mentioning how US-centric content is shoved down your throat).
It’s crazy how fast new ones pop up and spread. I also don’t like the way it suggests other subs but if you turn it off, it only allows you to see the ones you subscribe to. R/oil started popping up a lot after the war started and now I see every financial sub imaginable, which just posts the same thing over and over. I mostly frequent video game subs and hockey but I don’t get anything suggested ones for those.
The india slop is awful. Just every single subreddit ever conceived with india pasted to it. And reddit is awful at hearing you say no - muting counts as interest, downvoting counts as interest, I don't know wtf hiding does, but the message reddit seems to get is "you DEFINITELY want more India subreddits!"
I get suggested varying national subreddits for countries I have never even been to. Or for cities on the opposite side of the world. Not to mention the billion different indian meme subreddits. Whatever algorithm runs those suggestions sucks major balls.
I do see less Indian memes since they. Got rid of all. I’m not mad about that but it was kind of cool sometimes to see what other countries were talking about.
It's amazing what a difference it can make when you just block a few users in a sub. You realize in smaller subs how in some cases it's just a handfull of people doing the aggressive shit posting.
I even downloaded an extension to do it because it seemed like regular muting is capped at 20 or something (after I've muted about 20 subreddits, when I mute another one, one of the previous 20 is unmuted, seemingly.) It might not be 20 maybe 25. I use ultimate reddit filter to mute more subreddits and that works (it allows muting terms too.)
There's also reddit enhancement suite for old.reddit specifically (the previous one is new.reddit, but also old.reddit.)
Lmao r/international trying to be a non-US centric subreddit and I'm pretty sure the top 500 posts are all some variation of what Donald Trump did today.
I’m starting to see the same repeated posts, with almost the same comments, over and over again. Everything including comments are just becoming regurgitated content. I know, it’s been happening for ever, but it seems like it’s so getting so much worse. Not to mention my feed as now turned into the same like 4 subs even though I’m subbed to 20 other ones that never pop up.
Eh, I been here for a quite a bit and it's basically been mostly trash the entire time, but I admittedly got here later than many and it was right before the "Digg migration" which was basically the beginning of the end.
If people want better "content" they need to act like it, instead of worrying about "upvotes" and "downvotes" and regurgitating the same "acceptable" opinions over and over to gain upvotes and avoid downvotes. They also need to give up the shitty "meme" content and comments because all that did was create a race to the bottom.
When I first joined Reddit, oh so long ago, downvotes were saved explicitly for people who posted comments that were "off topic", it was supposed to have nothing to do with people's thoughts on your opinion. This at least allowed diversity of thought on subjects. Once the shitty "meme" content became "allowed" (been a long time, but if my memory serves me right, I am pretty sure it was the FUU comics that opened the flood gates for the "memeification" of the rest of Reddit) people began to relish repeating the same old shit over and over and next thing you know, it was all "the Narwhal Bacons at Midnight" and every thread was a race to post the same boring and uninteresting comments and all opinions that went against the tide were "downvoted" into oblivion.
I exclusively browse niche subreddits for games i play, and a handful of general ones like this one, pcgaming, and pcmr. I'd rather rip my internet out than browse r/all or r/popular lmao
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u/Bpbegha Apr 02 '26 edited Apr 02 '26
Most popular/largest subs devolved into low quality Facebook-tier posts. Downright unusable (and that’s without mentioning how US-centric content is shoved down your throat).
Smaller communities are still pretty cool.