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I left Reddit because I gave them so many years of dedication (and $ via Reddit premium), not even considering the fact I bought coins on multiple accounts.
Reddit became way too focused on Karma. Karma is great in concept, but more than half of the users are only posting for internet points at this point. It takes away from the validity of posts imo. How many "I stopped drinking for 30 days!" posts did you see on there with like 70k upvotes and thousands of karma?
The amount of not genuine posts is alarming. People have become addicted to the upvote/downvote system moreso than boomers on Facebook have become attached to their pages.
The amount of hate speech, misinformation and blatant lies the site actively promotes is insane.
They literally made everyone NFT wallets...???????
NFT wallets?? Why the fuck was this ever approved? Oh yeah, more $, and something else for Spez to add to his IPO rubbish. Hey look at us we have some NFTs too type beat.
The userbase is pretty shit and Spez has even admitted to not caring about the people who made his site what it is.
Why would anyone ever stay on a site where the literal CEO says he doesn't need nor care about you?
To expand on 1 & 2: the amount of karma farming accounts and the monetisation of karma. It became second nature to check the OP account and top comment accounts to see if they were repost bots. Supporting them through engagement meant inadvertently helping bad actors who needed legitimate looking accounts, to either sell of to use. Reddit was absolutely rife with them.