Reddit has become like the Nigerian prince letters with this, as in if you are nuanced enough to ever experience this, you are not their target audience. They want only their very slim narratives to thrive, and they will willingly obliterate the post history and presence of decade old users to achieve this. This isn’t just keeping away conspiracy theories and misinformation to keep the noise down, it’s about keeping away any nuance and discussion away when the admins don’t like it when it personally offends them or argues against them. It is basically eroding the sort of participation that made reddit great and them just hoping that there’s enough participation left over to make it up.

Reddit is basically what X and Meta would be if Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg where as deceitful enough as Steve Huffman, as opposed to loud idiots who because of it everyone knows what they are. It’s a social network that is rotten to its core but has played people well enough to be able to get attention in places where it shouldn’t have been able to. Thank spez he was finally able to have his whole out-himself moment with the whole API fiasco, but of course he’s going to care less and less about appearances now that the cat is out of the bag.