[RocketOne]

My personal result was quitting 10 years on reddit and giving up my worthless but substantial karma.

The next result is that I noticed I became less argumentative in real life and tend to keep my opinions to myself more, all in all much appreciated by those I love. And my mental health is better.

The next result is that in going back occasionally to scroll through reddit it seems MUCH more obvious to me that almost every post is designed to incite anger, controversy or judgment. It didnt feel nearly that obvious before.

And there are some clear indications that bots are running rampant. Especially r/AITA (Am I The Asshole) where EVERY post is now almost exactly the same length, written about some situation that is quite stupid or rage inducing that its hard to believe that anyone would bother to respond. But they do. Im guessing they have an intern pounding away at ChatGPT for 10 minutes to create the next 100 AITA's

Lastly, Ive migrated to tildes.com, and much smaller community where I was/am startled to see that people can communicate politely even when they disagree and rage baiting does not exist. Its not nearly as busy as reddit was and the topics are far more limited but the quality is miles above the poor posts that now permeate reddit.

[SamuelAdams]

I’ve also taken a break, and I have noticed that Reddit posts repeat themselves often. Here’s an example of something on the front page right now:

https://www.reddit.com/r/travel/comments/1853x6g/whats_your_...

Seven months ago:

https://www.reddit.com/r/solotravel/comments/12iwccx/unpopul...

One year ago:

https://www.reddit.com/r/TravelNoPics/comments/vbcvu6/whats_...

Two years ago:

https://www.reddit.com/r/travel/comments/p71gax/whats_your_m...

The end result: if you want to karma farm or make a hot topic, just search for something that was posted 6+ months ago.