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I've been waiting for another aggregator / tree comment community to form with enough popularity to sink time into. Once I started getting frequent combative messages on a regular basis in even niche subs, over what should be lukewarm takes, I recognized Reddit had reached the end of its use. Online pop culture is toxic as hell and being on reddit since the near beginning it was pretty obvious how that was seeping in
Not that reddit was ever a great place, but it was at least silly, and informative