[waboremo]

It was a cesspool, with subs like jailbait and fatpeoplehate running rampant, turning platform into nothing but a hate-obsessed one with lots of porn (mind you, not the type that reddit became famous for around ~2018, but revenge and gif reuploads to imgur). I certainly would not consider any of those "what made reddit great".

What made reddit great was the era after this, when many subs were then removed for promoting hate, users could also start avoiding subs so they won't show up, and everything else left up to user choice. This was the time when more people started to trust reddit more, and thanks to the likes of tumblr struggling, people felt comfortable enough to post more valuable and personal content.

Until of course they started messing with things again and then started allowing a lot of violence on the front page and filling feeds with recommendations.

[goodbyesf]

> It was a cesspool

No it wasn't. It was an open, relatively honest and fun place that was more representative of the world around them then the politicized "safe space" cesspool that it became.

> What made reddit great was the era after this, when many subs were then removed for promoting hate

Did atheism, politics, news, worldnews, video and every major sub get banned? It just became concentrated and biased hate.

> This was the time when more people started to trust reddit more

No. It became a safe space and an echo chamber for a class of morons because it censored another group of morons.

What you mean is that you got to spew hate without any pushback. And that's why you liked it.