I Am an Object of Internet Ridicule, Ask Me Anything

I'm really tired of Reddit. I still find myself going over there looking for stupid content just to relax my mind after a very busy day. I have my own preferred subreddits and I used to think that was a fine way to spend some spare time here and there -- reading stuff that might seem clever, or that I wouldn't have stumbled upon in other ways.

Now it's different. Most of the time I think the time I spend browsing reddit is not well spent anymore. Even in the good subs I followed the hivemind has taken over. Pun threads are everywhere and even the most serious subreddits appear to me as shallow ghosts of what they once were.

The way Reddit's the frontpage of the Internet, is a way I don't like anymore.

Maybe it's me, maybe it's always been like that and I just happen not to like it anymore, after the n-th silly image turned into a sillier photoshop job or an even sillier meme. After the n-th drama stemming from the fact that Reddit as company is basically shit.

Or maybe something really changed.

Either way, I'm putting a 127.0.0.1 www.reddit.com line into my hosts file, and try and get rid of the slightest temptation to visit it once more. Let's see what happens in the next month. I'll try to read more books, I guess.

I do not want to defend Reddit, but this is very much a story of a person actively seeking out their detractors then feeling hurt by them.

Also, do people really move to New York City without having jobs lined up? Is it that common?