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Covid wrecked Reddit. It like double or tripled in size.
I would say there have been phases. I started using it around 2010. There was always an eternal September type complaining going on.
Kony 2012 and Rand Paul were the weird millennial activism years. They were kinda fun. Then there was the Ellen Pao years where the site started regressing and actively pissing off the community. The_Donald really fucked things up by blatantly abusing the rules for years.
After 2016 the site was getting too big and political (I mean, it was always political, but astroturfing took that election).
Everything since the redesign has been bad. Covid growth folded into the Pre IPO years. They banned the API and my local subreddit lost its best moderators and it never recovered.
And now it’s just garbage. Like that clickbait girl diaries sub is so clearly rage bait AI stories, it’s worse than relationship advice used to be.