Reddit is so full of bots and people pasting AI instead of posting themselves that it was beginning to make me feel genuinely insane. Using that site now is hazardous to your mental health. It always was, but now it is hazardous in entirely new ways. I just cannot believe the absolutely crazy stuff I see from people on there. The AI boosters are just unhinged there.
this post was submitted on 29 Oct 2026
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I’m so sick of hearing about Reddit. I left that place to come here and every other discussion is about Reddit.
Anyone know a third choice for news aggregation?
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I use RedReader when I absolutely have to check reddit for something.
Same here on Android. I think Reddit gave it an exception for accessibility reasons and it still works. Way better an experience than their official client. RedReader has been so good that I didn't even go hunting for ahem, modded versions of official Reddit client :p.
It was just yesterday that I closed my lurking tabs (again). I had been using old.reddit and initially closed them when they first made it log in only, but then after accidentally clicking a reddit link and seeing old reddit again, it turned out the old reddit redirect addon had added something that made it work again. Don't know exactly what, maybe it was a reskin, maybe they only blocked it on the client side and it was trivial to bypass.
Then, a few days ago, I noticed that the load more comments links were broken. Then, yesterday, when I refreshed the sub I was lurking, it just opened new reddit instead of old. The redirect wasn't even giving a loop, so not sure what was going on there. I wonder if this step here is an extra one because they got it working again after I closed the tabs.
Either way, it's lurk or nothing for me. Quality was noticeably going down ever since the API change anyways, same with activity level. I remember you used to be able to spend a couple hours reading AITA then refresh and all but the most active threads would be different. At this point, you could refresh a day later and still see some stale threads that weren't even at 1k upvotes. There was still enough to pass some time with but nothing like it used to be.
Though I was surprised at how it never did really slide to the right like I figured it would with all the people talking about being banned for any kind of pushback to far right bs.
Good riddance