Reddit is an endless river of garbage now & it's really depressing.
I've recently started using this app again after years away. I just scrolled for fifteen minutes & didn't see a single entertaining or engaging post in that time. So I started muting subs, hoping to curate my feed a bit. I found that *all I was doing* was muting & clicking "not interested". That was the entire experience.
The incessant low-effort political choir-preaching is well-documented so I won't harp on that. That's fixable; but once you wade through those, all that's left are the same questions posted day after day, year after year (What's a movie you like that others don't? What's your go-to late-night snack? What's one thing humanity would be better off without?). People thrusting pick-me contrarian views in your face like unwanted dick pics then responding with shock & bewilderment when they get downvoted into oblivion. Children who have just discovered the internet for the first time. Non-English speakers posting gibberish. Crass sewage leaking in from TikTok, Instagram, etc. People bitching & moaning (throw this one on that particular pile).
Every post in my feed is between 12 hours & 2 days old. Even if they were worth engaging with, it would be pointless because they're already dead. Everyone is so angry & bored it seems like the primary pastime here is intentionally misinterpreting posts in order to start a dogpile. It's the only way to get a dopamine hit.
Reddit has always had its particular strain of issues; but in the past it was not this difficult to find something, *anything* engaging or entertaining. It's as banal & unstimulating as Facebook, only a slightly different flavor of shit. It makes me sad.
Happily accepting advice if anyone knows how to make the app usable again, or a better alternative. Otherwise I invite you to use this post as a place to vent your own frustration.