No, I left it a couple of times before. But every time I left Reddit for one of the new sites, I came back, because it only took a couple of months for those sites to be taken over by Christian conspiracy theorists. I ended up back on Reddit because it was the least bad discussion site, but there were still huge moderation problems and a lot of bots/shilling.

At one point, I posted something positive about a large country with an enormous population which is adjacent to my home country, and how they pulled hundreds of millions of people out of poverty, and suddenly found that everything I posted anywhere was automatically downvoted.

There was a lot of paranoia in some specific subs because it seemed the articles posted were curated by people with an agenda, who may not have even shared our heritage. So it was no longer a safe space for us to discuss our community’s issues. I got downvoted for bringing up inconvenient facts, like how bombs dropped by the US still kill and maim people in Laos every year.

In the end, outside of some NBA, Star Trek (again, dancing around/ignoring certain issues i.e. Why didn’t Star Trek fans like Avery Brooks or what he said with Far Beyond the Stars?), and tech discussion, Reddit was circling the drain.

I found more community, and culture sharing, on TikTok of all places. The community I found there changed my world view.