So done with Reddit. Today was the last straw. Don’t let Digg become this.

I’ve been slowing moving away from Reddit as a platform for a lot of reasons.

Among the top reasons:

• Cyclical rhetoric

• Argumentative users with nothing better to do

• Posts as glorified advertisements

• Genuinely unhelpful moderators (at worst abusive)

• Proliferation of AI slop posts and comments

• Living proof of Dead Internet theory

But today really took the biscuit.

I was genuinely trying to help in a couple of subreddits I’ve been a long standing member of for years.

What did I get?

Posts removed without explanation.

Comments locked mid-conversation.

Snide side-channel mod messages that boiled down to little more than “because we said so.”

Reddit no longer rewards community contribution.

It rewards whoever learned how to game the platform rules earliest and become shitty mods of once great subs.

So yeah. I’m done.

I’m done feeding effort into a system that treats experienced discussion as a disposable commodity and thoughtless noise as engagement.

I’m a champion of community-driven models, because when they achieve the right mix and truly give a place for community to grow it’s unbelievable how rewarding and positive an environment it can be.

Genuinely excited for communities here on Digg, but before we dive in I hope that our Digg overlords have done their homework on creating nurturing spaces, not shill-filled echo chambers.

Because we already know how that ends.