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.
I completely agree about being female on Reddit - it was usually so much better not to let anyone know. Sometimes it was really annoying to be treated differently strictly because I have a different party going on between my legs. I mean, sometimes the content or responses were cute or funny, but a lot of the time it was just rude, sexist, or even somewhat aggressive.. Every time a redditor revealed she was a girl, there was always that kind of lame and creepy response "RIP your inbox." No thank you.
This touches on a good point. I had mostly been sticking to some of the sports subs and askreddit, but like you, found the quality was dropping rapidly over the past year-ish. It went from being a place where you could read some good stories and insights into who could post the most ridiculous thing. That, and the thread topics became, as you said, more juvenile and repetitive.
I had been trying to find alternatives for a while, and this latest fiasco simply provided the opportunity to leave. Seems like a lot of others may have been in the same boat.
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.
I completely agree about being female on Reddit - it was usually so much better not to let anyone know. Sometimes it was really annoying to be treated differently strictly because I have a different party going on between my legs. I mean, sometimes the content or responses were cute or funny, but a lot of the time it was just rude, sexist, or even somewhat aggressive.. Every time a redditor revealed she was a girl, there was always that kind of lame and creepy response "RIP your inbox." No thank you.
This touches on a good point. I had mostly been sticking to some of the sports subs and askreddit, but like you, found the quality was dropping rapidly over the past year-ish. It went from being a place where you could read some good stories and insights into who could post the most ridiculous thing. That, and the thread topics became, as you said, more juvenile and repetitive.
I had been trying to find alternatives for a while, and this latest fiasco simply provided the opportunity to leave. Seems like a lot of others may have been in the same boat.