I don’t know why I decided to browse a popular sub today, r/books (logged out, I don’t have an account anymore). Maybe I hoped I might learn something. As if! People make the absolute same posts over and over. Today I read a book! I read one page of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone and I already know it’s a masterpiece and the best book ever. I read 1984 and wow, just wow. I hate stickers in book covers. Audiobooks good. Actually audiobooks bad. I hate movie covers. The absolute same thing as yesterday, 6 months, 1 year, 2 years ago. May I remember this feeling next time I decide to browse Reddit again.
Why do old users put up with this? How can they even pretend that they haven’t already read this stuff a million times before? Or are these subs 100% driven by new users and repost bots? The complete lack of new content is mind boggling.
The comments have gotten just as bad too. Trolls and Bots everywhere. No moderation. Also, the voting system works well when it’s mostly sane and intelligent people there. Now the dumbest comments get upvoted super high and any long critical, intelligent responses get downvoted to oblivion.
I’ve been increasingly annoyed by common repetitive stuff. Every time there’s a post about Siri or machine learning on /r/Apple, iOS or related subs, or a comment to any unrelated post but mentioning Siri/ML/etc, the entire subreddit immediately descends into the same massive whine-fest with the same popular comments every time about how Siri ruins lives. It makes it impossible discussing anything remotely related to ML, LLM, AI, voice recognition or similar there.
So that was just one example but I’ve stopped clicking on titles that might results in common major circle-jerks on Reddit, but sometimes there’s something that would have been be fun to have a discussion about.