It seems the somewhat community-oriented and non-evil impression many of had about Reddit Inc was a facade. Pretty much we didn’t realize how lame the ownership/management was because for the most part, they stayed out of everyone’s way. There were some clues over the years, though.

Personally I am really happy to have broken the habit of going there. The cliches and overdone jokes have been a bit much for a while. I still might look at it for things like city news, until the Lemmy communities get large enough. On the other hand, some subs I read a lot over the past few years had been driving me sort of nuts for a while with the same thing over and over again every month or two. Also, the same contentious opinion wars - you’d have the community agree on one point one week, and the next week or next day, totally different attitudes and consensus and voting depending on who randomly showed up and how the post/comments were voted on in the first few hours. Pretty sure my mental health has been improving over the past few weeks due to not being on reddit.