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As someone who has been on reddit for almost twelve years, this site is so much closer to how reddit used to be. It’s crazy how much garbage we’ve been putting up with for so long over there.
I've already mentioned a few times here how I have similar feeling. An added effect to that is actually leaving comments again.
At some point I stopped really engaging with reddit and became a passive lurker. I thought I simply grew out of it, but maybe it's more about how the site stopped feeling like a community.
Or how it started feeling like everything on reddit eventually became a witch hunt of one flavor or another. The days of karmanaut or years later unidan may as well be forgotten history to modern redditors. If they're brought up it's for the drama or the cringe.
The feeling of actually enjoying them and how the community interacted with itself at that time has been lost.
Remember Streetlamp LeMoose? There haven't been any such memorable events on reddit in recent years. What about the ol' switcheroo? You don't see that anymore.
They are indeed as you said, forgotten history to modern redditors. Back in the day, it was a closer community, and these events were discussed for days and referenced for months if not years.
Like you said, reddit has been consistently losing it's community aspect. I'm glad to have experienced it, but I think it's time to move on.
Damn, Streetlamp LeMoose, thank you for that memory