I had my first account in 2006 I believe. By even 2010 Reddit was becoming kind of shit.
Honestly, I don't want to blame reddit entirely. The entirety of the internet has gotten progressively worse and worse and worse over the past 20 years. At this point I'm ready to nuke the whole experiment.

Golden age for sure. It was the wild West but so fucking fun. Every web page was creative and unique. Every community felt special. Now we're all just funneled into these prefab "experiences" on these billionaire owned corpo platforms. It's so dystopian.