I’ve been on Reddit since the early days, and I think the thing that keeps me going back is habit more than enjoyment these days.
Comment threads for any even moderately larger sub have turned into cesspools of sniping ad hominem attacks and every form of fallacious argument under the sun.
And that same mindset is slowly creeping into the smaller niches that are the primary reasons I go there. This growing ooze invariably puts me in a worse state of mind, and I tried deleting the Apollo app just a few days ago to see how it impacts my mental health.
This API nonsense will easily make this a permanent experiment at this point.
It’s sad, but seemingly inevitable.
>And that same mindset is slowly creeping into the smaller niches that are the primary reasons I go there. This growing ooze invariably puts me in a worse state of mind
These and other glaring flaws of Reddit, tracing the degradation of the site's user experience in recent years is the premise of the book "You Should Quit Reddit." It's a self-published book that's been discussed several times on Reddit's /r/NoSurf community. I found it intelligently written and sourced, as the author described his same experience of addiction to Reddit, going back to the site out of habit despite not enjoying it.
I was a daily Redditor since the early days and haven't been on the site in a month. I blocked all DNS requests to Reddit from resolving to break the habit of going on the site. Been lurking here instead and find this place more pleasant and reminiscent of Reddit's early days.