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Agreed, I try to keep a chart of the percent chances that something might happen within a specific time-period. While I still think a massive Digg-style exit in the next 2 years is less than 50%, I place a moderate-exit at above 50%. I keep noticing things slowly heating up on Reddit.

In a way, it seemed like the Ellen Pao incidents in 2014/2015 should have driven people off the side, but didn't. Now it 2020, the censorship and information control is absurd, and politics are fucking everywhere, and they've banned large segments of political discussion to the point approximately half the political spectrum is completely suppressed.

It's not just politics either, as I've seen most of my non-political and hobby related subreddits have gone down the drain. There's a noticeable increase in fun, interesting, exciting, or thoughtful content and the instant anything slightly political comes up it's like a flock of circle-jerkers show up out of nowhere pushing highly biased off-topic political nonsense.

What I mean is Reddit has become MUCH less fun, interesting, and educational than it used to be. The very reasons for going to Reddit in the first place are gone, especially if you try to stay out of politics. Personally, I intend to "self-ban" myself from politics again (this would be the 3rd time) once this corona-virus shit is over, it destroys my happiness and free time in a huge way.