RobotsLeftHand

By the time I left reddit I couldn’t remember the last time I had a conversation there. I started a personal rule on reddit where if the top comment was “It’s almost as if…” I would just close the tab and move on.

Whatever followed would be the laziest brain rot. And people voted it to the top.

What the hell? I’d ask why but reason left them long ago.

That was more a death rattle.

Reddit was already gaining a lot of clout as a public platform. Around that time was when Bannon leveraged reddit influence to drive the Bernie bros and incels to Trump.

I’m guessing that’s when the world stage really took notice of reddit as a tool for political influence.

Reddit was already a shell of itself before AI. I stuck around too long because I didn’t quite like Lemmy when I tried during the API exodus. I eventually left when they started forcing logins. By that time I hadn’t realized just how much the community had degraded till I came here.

It’s like I forgot what online discourse felt like before corporate tentacles strangled reddit. Even the stupid arguments make more sense, and that seems impossible.

I think Citizens United says otherwise.