I’ve been on reddit for almost a decade and a half. Never have I seen so many users gilding pro corporate reddit/pro spez comments. It is almost always the former. It’s very unusual and makes me a tad suspicious. I’m not sure if reddit has evolved into a platform overflowing with users that I truly don’t synchronize with, or perhaps reddit is virtually augmenting these posts/comments, increasing bot posts to augment activity, etc. I accept either or and for that and many other reasons I have contently moved on from the platform. It’s just not for me anymore and has been fracturing into an environment that lost its luster. Too many common folk have saturated the platform, too many bots, too much corporate shenanigans, too many miserable users, too little civility, too much ignorance and a lack of analytical literacy. The fediverse has given a breath of fresh air and something of nostalgia from the early days of reddit. I do think this is the way forward with time and I’m here for it.
I have suggested this to a couple of app developers. Aggregating sub forums will be a huge perk if feasible in the near future. I’d like to have all my subscriptions from different platforms with the same or similar name under one page. Or at least allow me to chose which forums aggregate within a custom category. It would make the fediverse much easier to navigate especially for those who are less technically literate.