Reddit was never particularly friendly for conservatives, but at least it wasn't overly aggressive towards us either. Until recently.
I guess the turning point were American presidential elections of 2016. That's when the polarization of Reddit really took shape and discussions started becoming more and more aggressive.
Still, Reddit continued to be the central place for political discussions, but default subs like r/politics became too toxic. And by toxic, I don't mean liberal or leftist, I mean exclusionist. There were still tons of other good subreddits, so I continued to use the website, ignoring the big subs altogether.
But recent developments destroyed everything good that existed on Reddit. Shutdown of virtually every right-wing subreddit, power-hungry mods pretty much everywhere and idiotic corporate leadership of Reddit were too much to take.
After eight years of Reddit, I am done.
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