This is a big part of why I was tiring of reddit as well. It had gone from being frequently inspiring, to tedious and frustrating. Finding intelligent content was just getting too hard.

I was already in two minds about the site, before AskReddit went dark. I had got into the habit of scanning AskReddit most evenings after work and was already finding it becoming excessively repetitive and juvenile. No disrespect to teenaged users but their topics of interest don't tend to jibe that well with my own as a mid-30s woman.

For me a large part of my discomfort was also the sense that I didn't actually want other users to know I was a woman. Even on the well-moderated, uncontroversial subreddits, there was a lot of really sexist language and it was wearing me down. It was starting to feel like the occasional laughs I was getting from reading other people's clever repartee wasn't worth the feeling of alienation that came with it.

Agreed.

I can't even tell you how refreshing it already is. I feel like I'm emerging from an abusive relationship where I ignored the meanness for the sake of having it there in my life!

Yay thankyou! Excited to be here :)

Hi Kiwi! I was a not-so-active Reddit lurker myself. Feeling cautiously hopeful that Snapzu will be a slightly more carefully curated series of conversations...

Yeah I just read one of the /t/asksnapzu posts about why voat got the worst of the reddit exodus last year (ppl who were furious about the banning of fatpeoplehate... without getting into it too much, while I understand their 'on principle' departure , they're also probably not the kind of people I'd be keen to have a chat with if you see what I mean).

All of which is a long-winded and poorly phrased way of saying I'm looking forward to spending more time here!

Thank you! Everyone here seems extremely polite and well mannered from my browsings... Hopefully that will continue!