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adjl posted...

At no point have I ever even considered reading Reddit's front page. If I'm on Reddit, it's for a specific sub, not a broad overview of the site. The site as a whole is just too big for a broad overview

This is more or less what I always say to people who complain that Reddit is terrible.

Obviously, if you're going to the front page, letting the site show you random "hot topics", or otherwise not curating your experience at all it's going to be 100% crap.

But if you actively seek out specific subreddits, you can find a ton of them that are either relatively tame or outright polite, where people have interesting and civil conversations, with minimal shitposting and trolling.

There are definitely subreddits that enforce draconian levels of groupthink or that downvote the hell out of anything resembling individual thought, and there are definitely subreddits that are like an overflowing river of digital diarrhea, but you can find a lot of great communities if you look hard enough.

Reddit's honestly one of the better social media sites right now, as long as you use it right.