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I had to disable my old reddit redirect extension, and then my VPN because apparently reddit blocks those now, because I was curious whether it was a design thing.
Turns out it's still ugly as shit. But regarding politics, it looks more like 4chan to me. I suppose a particle of 4chan was always part of every redditor, but now that a lot of the older power users left and it became a designated content farm, all bets are off.
In a way it kinda makes me hopeful, lots of people used to think that r/worldnews was balanced. I wonder if normal people will look at the libs craving blood in every post and be weirded out by reddit altogether now (rather than just the very obviously reactionary spots like the trump subreddit).
I suppose a particle of 4chan was always part of every redditor, but now that a lot of the older power users left and it became a designated content farm, all bets are off.
Been a long-ass while (years) since I was on 4chan, but I'd say if anything- default/mainstream subs on reddit make 4chan look balanced and almost (still not really) rational, usually, nowadays. Perhaps mainly due to how rabidly effective reddit is, as a platform for manufacturing narratives and stifling dissent, and how compromised it is (and always was- though it got even worse) as a result.
I meant new interface layout, not the content XD
I kinda figured. It's been the default mobile browser layout for a while, and it's fugly, but I'd gotten used to it. I always use old.reddit on desktop for the lemmy-inspired theme.
I hate the old reddit, does it even have dark mode, my eyes bleed.
If you install the Reddit Enhancement Suite I think it has a dark mode option. It has many other cool features, though the team has entered maintenance mode in recent years.
the old redirect extension still works for me. But they recently changed the url format and so half the links to other posts just direct me to the "submit post" for whatever sub was linked.
7 times out of 10 a image link will send me to a negative upvoted post on /r/pics from 12 years ago. same one every time.
Good to know that the "nice hat" bug wasn't just for me. That and the droves of deleted zombie threads are so annoying after years of depending on Reddit threads for troubleshooting.
Oh shit that's the one. I thought I was going insane.