I ripped Reddit off my phone. Deleted. Erased. Burned from existence. Because the app has become so enshittified it’s not just useless—it’s insulting. Let me spell out why Reddit is a flaming trash heap:

1. Notifications – I told the app a hundred times to stop. It still spammed me. No respect, no control. Just harassment disguised as “engagement.”

2. Gamification – “Congrats! You’re a Top 1% Commenter!” “Wow! You’ve got a streak!” Screw off. I don’t need digital gold stars like I’m in preschool.

3. Auto-play – Scroll near a video and boom, it hijacks your screen and your data plan. Doesn’t matter if you want it or not. Consent is dead.

4. Data hog – Tied to auto-play. Reddit eats bandwidth like a starving hog at a slop bucket. Your bill goes up, they don’t care.

5. Garbage algorithm – Reddit once had a straightforward feed. Now it’s “optimized for engagement,” which really means “designed to shovel outrage, spam, and misery at you until you break.”

6. Targeted ads – These are beyond creepy. Read a single post from a trans user and Reddit suddenly decides you’re transitioning. Next thing you know, it’s shoving femme-contouring underwear ads in your face, as if you personally needed “help with your transition.” It’s invasive and tone deaf.

7. Comment ads – Oh, this is the bottom of the barrel. You’re reading first-hand accounts of tragedy, and then some bank parachutes into the thread to sell you a credit card. It’s corporate sewage dumped straight into the conversation.

8. AI slop – I use AI for editing and dictation. Fine. But Reddit? It’s drowning in AI garbage posts—zero effort, zero originality, pure sludge. And somehow those float to the top.

9. Karma farmers – Legions of parasites reposting the same crap, plagiarizing comments, hoarding fake internet points. It reeks of bot farms and shady manipulation.

10. Spam apocalypse – Political spam. Crypto spam. Porn spam. Comment spam. Chat spam. The whole site is a meat grinder of spam.

So yeah, I ditched it.

What replaces Reddit for me? Lemmy and Piefed. On iOS, I use Voyager for Lemmy. In Safari, I use Piefed to manage communities. They’re cleaner, faster, and give me what Reddit no longer can: quality over quantity.

Reddit’s giant userbase means nothing if the experience is a pile of corporate dogshit. I’d rather have smaller communities that actually work than wade through the endless sludge Reddit has become.

I ripped Reddit off my phone. Deleted. Erased. Burned from existence. Because the app has become so enshittified it’s not just useless—it’s insulting. Let me spell out why Reddit is a flaming trash heap:

1. Notifications – I told the app a hundred times to stop. It still spammed me. No respect, no control. Just harassment disguised as “engagement.”

2. Gamification – “Congrats! You’re a Top 1% Commenter!” “Wow! You’ve got a streak!” Screw off. I don’t need digital gold stars like I’m in preschool.

3. Auto-play – Scroll near a video and boom, it hijacks your screen and your data plan. Doesn’t matter if you want it or not. Consent is dead.

4. Data hog – Tied to auto-play. Reddit eats bandwidth like a starving hog at a slop bucket. Your bill goes up, they don’t care.

5. Garbage algorithm – Reddit once had a straightforward feed. Now it’s “optimized for engagement,” which really means “designed to shovel outrage, spam, and misery at you until you break.”

6. Targeted ads – These are beyond creepy. Read a single post from a trans user and Reddit suddenly decides you’re transitioning. Next thing you know, it’s shoving femme-contouring underwear ads in your face, as if you personally needed “help with your transition.” It’s invasive and tone deaf.

7. Comment ads – Oh, this is the bottom of the barrel. You’re reading first-hand accounts of tragedy, and then some bank parachutes into the thread to sell you a credit card. It’s corporate sewage dumped straight into the conversation.

8. AI slop – I use AI for editing and dictation. Fine. But Reddit? It’s drowning in AI garbage posts—zero effort, zero originality, pure sludge. And somehow those float to the top.

9. Karma farmers – Legions of parasites reposting the same crap, plagiarizing comments, hoarding fake internet points. It reeks of bot farms and shady manipulation.

10. Spam apocalypse – Political spam. Crypto spam. Porn spam. Comment spam. Chat spam. The whole site is a meat grinder of spam.

So yeah, I ditched it.

What replaces Reddit for me? Lemmy and Piefed. On iOS, I use Voyager for Lemmy. In Safari, I use Piefed to manage communities. They’re cleaner, faster, and give me what Reddit no longer can: quality over quantity.

Reddit’s giant userbase means nothing if the experience is a pile of corporate dogshit. I’d rather have smaller communities that actually work than wade through the endless sludge Reddit has become.

@atomicpoet I was sad when baconreader shut down.