Since many people are declared a hategroup by now if they have opinions detrimental the mainstream zeitgeist of power mods, the ban wave is a major factor in content decline in my opinion. A lot of people I know moved to greener pastures. There is meme spamming too and those subs are mostly uninteresting but I think it is the smaller problem.
I still go there for content of smaller subs, but not nearly as often as before.
From Wikipedia:
> Digg faced problems due to so-called "power users" who would manipulate the article recommendation features to only support one another's postings
This circle jerking can also be seen on reddit. People have suggested that moderators should be restricted to a few subs, but that didn't happen. They actually removed diversity they so often proclaim to champion.
"So many people are declared a hategroup now". Can you give any examples of recently designated hate groups that you disagree with the designation?
Reddit has been a hot mess for 5 years. It's T_D's fault. Content is less of an issue when you don't subscribe to the lowest-common-denominator subs and you just go there for focused interests like hobbies. It's the only way Reddit is of any use anymore. Social discourse is dead there. The trolls ruined the site.
Before the election, Reddit was not so popular, more tech, more news, less drama, though it existed.
Fast forward to 2015. T_D is created, pepe the frog is the mascot, and Trump is now the 4chan troll candidate. (You remember GOD PEDE EMPEROR, right?) T_D was a disgusting cesspool of brigading, trolling, and platform abuse. It wasn't just the politics, those people fucked up the experience for everyone else. That fucking sub got every pass possible from the admins and the owners.
To go back in history from where T_D came from, Trump wasn't even that popular early in 2015. T_D was made-popular, if-not-started by 4chan's /pol/ board. That board was one of the biggest hotbeds for your "Jewish question of the week" / racist memes, "OK guys, redpill me" trash designed to turn young, white, "disenfranchised" teens into internet warriors. Russian internet troll agencies like the IRA worked on these campaigns used to recruit and redpill.
They recruited enough people using heavily-doctored SJW cringe videos and "Carlson Dunking" talking head videos on people to convince their followers that Reddit must transform into T_D-land, and the Reddit community (And the rational admins) hated what it became.
Soon, racist subs like frenworld / clownworld showed up casually displaying nazi signs. These subs do damage, and these posts were all intentional. All these subs were flocked to by T_D members.
After each of these hate subs shut down, they start infiltrating mod spots on popular subs, trolling entire subs until they are kicked out by Admins.
Now, mass accounts have started flocking here, because, again, like Reddit, there's no barrier to making an account here, so why not troll and shitpost all over every thread with doctored counter-arguments like "So many people are declared a hategroup now".
I still go there for content of smaller subs, but not nearly as often as before.
From Wikipedia:
> Digg faced problems due to so-called "power users" who would manipulate the article recommendation features to only support one another's postings
This circle jerking can also be seen on reddit. People have suggested that moderators should be restricted to a few subs, but that didn't happen. They actually removed diversity they so often proclaim to champion.