Since the end of last month I have been going cold turkey with Reddit. Its hard, I miss the shenanigans and shit talking. Anyone else here going through the same? What have you been reading since the change?
The management of Reddit imposed a very high cost for using its API which was free before. From my understanding most people who accessed it, they used non-Reddit apps to use it (like Apollo & RedditIsFun). I'm pretty sure it is part of a campaign to dump Reddit to the public via an IPO or maybe SPAC. It is mainly owned by the holding company that owns Conde Nast and I guess they are sick of losing money. I doubt there is a real alternative unless they do a Tumblr. The large subreddits are largely untouched. I mainly read the economic subreddits and they are pretty much the same (r/wsb, r/economics, r/stocks, etc.)
Thanks for the history lesson, makes sense. I only started reading WSB a few years back, and Reddit seems a lot like yesterday rather than tomorrow. There's not much of an advantage of the upvoting format on most topics IMO since it tends to mute sincere debate since disagreeing views just get downvoted into the void (e.g. there's a reason to why I read ET more often). Nonetheless, for making the funniest meme or most important news visible while muting really dumb shit it of course works well.