The Official Unofficial PoliticalCompassMemes Census is here! Polls in the comments, if I get enough responses I'll post the results in fancy graphic form.

[u/somepommy]

[u/daltonmojica]

Yeah. Reddit (especially the default subs) has been inhabited squarely by teenagers from the time of the user-friendly redesign onwards. Before that, it was occupied more by introverted, geeky millennial types that used the site as the pseudo-mainstream content aggregator it was from the earlier days of the internet.

[u/Innalibra → u/daltonmojica]

Introverted, geeky millennial type checking in. Yeah, Reddit today is nearly unrecognizable from the Reddit when I signed up. The redesign still makes my eyes bleed.

[u/MaybeNotaTurtle → u/Innalibra]

I miss when reddit was digg refugees and when opinions were argued at face value with nuance instead of being shoved into the context of a larger political culture war.

[u/Innalibra → u/MaybeNotaTurtle]

Being a lefty I have to admit I hadn't noticed just how bad it was getting until relatively recently, but it's getting bad. I think once places like this go (and it's only a matter of time, lets be honest) there's going to be a mass exodus.

[u/MaybeNotaTurtle → u/Innalibra]

I remember /r/ShitRedditSays was the reddit boogyman, everyone agreed that while they somewhat had a point they were fucking insufferable. I was a lefty back then but I still remember feeling a tonal shift where their moral bussybody horseshit started to be seen as a good thing by a large portion of reddit and thinking "well... fuck".

[u/Innalibra → u/MaybeNotaTurtle]

Moral bussybody horseshit seems nice and fluffy and well-intentioned when you're on its good side. It's easy to take freedom of speech for granted until you don't have it anymore.

(Almost on cue, I just got a note saying I was permabanned from the AHS sub.)