i think that algorithm-based content suggestion can be a good thing if implemented correctly, it's just that what's good and what's profitable doesn't always align. sometimes i wonder what the world would look like right now if actually decent algorithms are the norm instead of the absolute cancer that's common right now.

The very fact that you handle the possibility that you might be non-intelligent already makes you considerably smarter than most of the Reddit userbase.

(Don't tell anyone, but I'm a dumbarse too. That's why my avatar is a smoking chimp. I just don't want to interact with other dumbarses, I'd rather leech off smarter people.)

Myself was still commenting a few times there, although I'm potentially braindead. (I don't rule out the possibility.) But I feel like even the smarter Reddit users who were still using the platform became less and less encouraged to show "hey, there's intelligent life here". They were like, "I came, I saw, and I shut up because I'm not putting my hand in this wasp hive."