I wish I used it before the propaganda machine. I mostly look at r/synthesizers and r/greentext
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In the early days it was mostly Linux and memes. That's a long time ago now, 2006-7ish. I quit using Reddit in 2016, after the CEO & admins were found editing people posts in r/thedonald.
The donald and wallstreet bets were the two holdouts against the complete soyification of Reddit but the donald went out in a blaze of glory getting banned and then after starting their own Reddit clone called the Donald.win they all got absolutely rekt by the Capitol Hill psyop and their site was shutdown. that was the end of that.
Wallstreet bets held out a bit longer but then it went too mainstream and got filled with the normie soy slop and instead of fun and interesting autistic deep dives it just became rich people posting huge losses and the same gay bear memes.
There are still niches that are useful around consoooomer good stuff and hobbies that require niche equipment—I’m partial to the mechanical keyboard space. It’s just the biggest community of people talking about building keyboards.
Would be nice to free some of those communities from the corp Reddit antiuser shift and get them on nostr. But most people don’t mind being the product *shrug*