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Reddit's admins and mods have cultivated the culture they want and get, you can argue with them but it's only going to get you a ban and 99% of replies are either going to be people performatively responding for approval or others marking their account for more focus from the Eye of Sauron.
If you wish to fight them, take note of the Fox /r/antiwork piece and do likewise. Let their absurdity distance them from any audience of normies. Don't honestly post in a popular sub expecting to make a major influence.
It's a shame because Reddit largely killed the standalone forum for non-ossified communities. For the passively apolitical majority, those who are okay with simply ignoring the politics or are used to hearing it as background noise and don't think there's anything weird with it, it's a Schelling point for conversations on any topic.
Yes it is practically impossible to find any other frequented forum for almost any topic at this point. It is easy to say just ignore reddit idiots but it is a real problem when reddit keeps luring in any online community and then causing its takeover by "those people"
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I don't know if it's more damaging socially, but the single biggest argument against reddit usage I can come up with these days is to just post about their moderation team. The Challenor affair was the most visible and egregious (Reddit hiring a chief moderator who did not notice their father tying up a small child in the attic and raping/abusing them for several weeks, then banning people who reported on the story with no explanation) but when you look at people like BardFinn the idea that any conversation is improved by having people like them deciding the rules of polite discourse is just too funny not to laugh at.
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