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Like circa 2007/8, Reddit was a community, and it was pretty great. I was friends with a big group of
r/Chicagopeople, and we organized several awesome meetups. I still talk to some of them, and 2 of them even got married!But then AMAs got Reddit national attention when celebrities started participating, things really blew up. Everyone came for
r/AMA, but they stayed forr/funnyandr/pics. Comment counts went from 20 to 100 top per post, to 100s or 1000s for all posts. Comment quality went from multi-paragraph, forum-like, insightful discussions that followed "Reddiquette", to one line joke comments and downvotes for disagreements (whereas downvotes prior were only used to bury inaccurate/hostile comments instead). And then Reddit slowly turned into a boredom filler instead of a community site, where you just scroll to pass the time.Yeah I joined in... 2013? When AMAs were already a thing, and like you said became a place for the same jokes and downvotes for innocuous comments. That's why I lurked for several years before commenting at all - and even then I got made fun of (and downvotes) for not getting a 'magnets, how do they even work?' meme
There were a few niche subreddits that I visited a lot and had actual good discussions / got to know people, but yeah it was otherwise just another place to consume content when bored