Horik

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Size is a poor indicator. 11 of me could take down a large but slow grazing animal. But a smaller predator would jack up 11 unarmed me’s.
Maybe we could all gnaw on a cow long enough to bring it down.

Not again.

I’m 50, and yes. Except in HS, I sat and dared them to do something about it. My school knew how to pick their battles, they never disciplined me for my acts of civil disobedience (I also protested the dress code when they enacted one).

Preserved lemon. It’s pickled, fermented lemon. Discovered it in Moroccan dishes, and it is heavenly.

Rexxitor or Redfugee is what I call myself

Yay, I’m not the only one!

It will breathe fresh life into the fediverse. I can’t wait.

You make great points, and style bonus for good turns of phrase.

ETA: I think you touched on a structural element that is also interdependent on demographics. Not age related, necessarily, but what are certain people looking for.

At some population density tipping point, Reddit stopped catering to thoughtful discussion, and became a place for memes and doomscrolling, bumper sticker slogans and reposts. Feedback loops developed, because people were coming for that content. Reddit became the place to find it.

Now, it’s not that I don’t partake of those sometimes, but I appreciate keeping those instances (subs) separate from the more interactive and human part.

I still lurk. I expected the slow decline and change in character that others here have predicted.
What I have seen in the last 8 days floored me. Continues to floor me. Reddit is already a zombie platform. Front page is week-old posts. Bot generated reposts from 2 weeks ago.
And astroturf posts trying to spin the whole thing as a “what was that blip?” Or “glad those whiners are gone”

It happened so much faster than I expected.

Interested in any responses, myself.