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posted ago by InfiniteWinning ago by InfiniteWinning +379 / -0

I'm honestly sick with Reddit to the core. I've been using the website years before it went mainstream and was around when /r/the_donald still only had less than 100k subscribers.

Reasons why I'm leaving

  • /r/the_donald being quarantined, I should have left at this point, but I finally ended up leaving when the Reddit admins removed more than half of our mods.
  • Reddit being a liberal circle jerk echo chamber.
  • There are many liberal mods on Reddit who want to censor.
  • The fundamental system of upvoting and downvoting is flawed. The downvote can be weaponized.
  • People are obsessed with karma.
  • /r/WatchRedditDie showing how much censorship the place has.
  • Admins being incredibly biased, post a far left liberal view and it remains. Post a center right conservative view and it gets mass downvoted, gets removed, and you might get banned from the subreddit or banned from the website itself.
  • /r/coronavirus - The CCP has infested that subreddit. It's very largely anti-Trump. It's becoming the new /r/politics. Say anything bad about the CCP and you get banned. Say anything bad about Trump and you get up voted. Additionally, alternative coronavirus subreddit are being quarantined.

Some other reasons

  • Outside of politics, I'm subbed to memes and Self-development. I'm bored of memes. And for the latter, I'm just consuming self-help junk where I will almost never apply it to my life.
  • The culture of Reddit is stupid. It's filled with arm chaired individuals. Most people only read the title of the post. Reddit awards are being awarded on mass to political posts. Comments and jokes are predictable.

I'm largely getting away because I cannot support a platform that is so open with censoring. The only problem with these too big companies is that you miss a large chunk of information online. It's like trying to avoid YouTube. Reddit is deeply integrated with the Internet. You can delete your Facebook and won't miss much, but a lot of important information is found on Reddit. Does anyone know a way to bypass this?

I used the website PowerDeleteSuite to mass edit my thousands of comments and submissions. It's done like that because Reddit and archival websites like Removeddit stores your latest edits. By editing them, it will only store the edited junk phrase.

Thanks for reading. I'm done with Reddit.

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kgthegman 1 point ago +1 / -0

Comments and jokes are predictable.

I agree with everything but this was the icing on the cake for me.. completely outside of political shit.. just looking for a distraction when i take a shit.. it's the same boring "meme" comments in every fucking thread.. karma whoring, people trying so hard to be 'funny' or witty or whatever it's just cringe as fuck.. i started on there years ago with just gaming conversation.. that's all I will go back for now.. T_D and the like truly opened my eyes to how fucking mass censored and controlled that site, and all sites for that matter, really are.. the suppression of anything against the narrative is fucking insane.. people are truly in a fight for their freedom, and so many bots and actual real people just surrendering to the mainstream garbage, ruining their own lives and possible chances of happiness or success is incredible.