How did Reddit become so cancerous?

If you look at archives of the site's front page you'll see 6-10 years ago the sites they were linking to were all random low key decentralized sites. 3-5 years ago that started disappearing, and now everything is imgur, twitter, youtube, or msm sites. Upvote botting is also a big problem and reddit either doesn't know how to combat it or they don't care. They did care when thedonald was doing it and they had to remove them from appearing on the site unless you were subscribed suggesting that they don't know how to combat the botting, but at the same time they're content allowing botting to take place on the other side. This botting is what's done the most damage to the site because it only takes a few artificial upvotes to make a post skyrocket.

upvotes and nested comments

And throw in the upvote/validation process, and things quickly funnel into stupid, cheap, repetitive, virtue-signaling garbage.

nice try research team, go and fuck off

users going to extreme lengths to maintain muh karma. plus every sub is a jerk circle of either blindly loving or hating something.

Correct The Record happened to reddit, and it never stopped.

You like Jow Forums?

since you were stopped from expressing the truth . at that point it's a fucking retards feelings daycare

Reddit is like /b/, it was never good, but at least it used to be way better. I remember bitching about reddit turning into tumblr 2.0 like 4 or 5 years ago. Goddamn is it horrible now.

Can we colonize it using seige tactics

ask /ptg/, many posters don't even hide that they're from there

it tells you something if they go there for "serious discussions" and drop in to le eshitpost here

It's made to be an echo chamber. One wrong think, it's downvoted en masse and no one will be able to look at it

Can someone please explain this to me? Is reddit really that butthurt over such a normie board only because it supports trump in a cringeworthy way that they have to suppress its subscriber count?

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user, this isn't there, you can write in paragraphs like a normal person.

They reward users for posting what they think other people want to see regardless of what they think themselves, given almost everyone is lonely or depressed to some degree its a comfy trap to give yourself over too.
Its why its powerful conditioning, eventually users get to the point where they only think about things that they think other people want to see. Opinions on every story, idea or piece of media becomes a vehicle to reciprocate upvotes, they reward others for taking the same journey, its a self perpetuating loop that leaves the users easy to manipulate.

The users will post naturally all day and then one subversive thread is seeded and given thousands of upvotes despite low view and comment counts, like flies to shit the rest gravitate to prove themselves part of the wider group.