Not sure exactly when it happened, but sometime in the past 3-4 years reddit just became not-reddit. It seemed to draw a more Facebook-esque audience than in prior years. There is still some good content there, but its simply not what it used to be.
1995: Welcome to the internet, check out these awesome stupid websites 2023: Here have an ad, after you subscribe, and accept cookies, and sign your life away to a terms of service written in alien legalese
those ppl... (feddit.de)
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Vaccine research vs. anti-vax research (lemmy.sdf.org)
Its getting old. (lemmy.ml)
Sure it is (lemmy.world)
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