I cut all my dealings with reddit about a month ago. It's amazing the amount of time I have regained, apart from a complete change in how I use the Web.
How did that come about? I'll tell you. It's quite a strange tale.
One day, I happened to go to reddit's front page. It was accidental, I usually only visited a tight selection of my subscribed subreddits, and had done for about 10 years.
On that front page was a thumbnail of a piece of medical equipment being used. Being from a medical background, I clicked on that picture and confirmed that it was indeed an ancient piece of equipment, and still in use today. So I commented 'I haven't seen one of those for 50 years!'. And that was that. No big deal, hey?
Then, a little later, I received a message saying that I had been banned(!) from some never-previously-heard-of subreddit for 'participating' in the 'the donald' subreddit. HUH?? WHA??
So I looked back through my history and discovered that the medical equipment photo had been a posting on 'the donald'. I had been banned from some other third-party subreddit for merely commenting on a piece of medical equipment.
When I posted about this weird occurrence on the 'collapse' subreddit, my post was censored. It was disappeared without trace in less than an hour.
So that's why I now have more free time than I have had for years, and why I have expunged all trace of reddit from my bookmark list.
How did that come about? I'll tell you. It's quite a strange tale.
One day, I happened to go to reddit's front page. It was accidental, I usually only visited a tight selection of my subscribed subreddits, and had done for about 10 years.
On that front page was a thumbnail of a piece of medical equipment being used. Being from a medical background, I clicked on that picture and confirmed that it was indeed an ancient piece of equipment, and still in use today. So I commented 'I haven't seen one of those for 50 years!'. And that was that. No big deal, hey?
Then, a little later, I received a message saying that I had been banned(!) from some never-previously-heard-of subreddit for 'participating' in the 'the donald' subreddit. HUH?? WHA??
So I looked back through my history and discovered that the medical equipment photo had been a posting on 'the donald'. I had been banned from some other third-party subreddit for merely commenting on a piece of medical equipment.
When I posted about this weird occurrence on the 'collapse' subreddit, my post was censored. It was disappeared without trace in less than an hour.
So that's why I now have more free time than I have had for years, and why I have expunged all trace of reddit from my bookmark list.