I first started using reddit after I left facebook due to their profit/engagement model blatantly pushing extreme and controversial content. I loved how reddit used to be an exclusively “opt in” platform.

The past couple of years I have tolerated reddit slowly moving in the direction of facebook by pushing engagement and controversy. I hoped that it was a growing pain.

The platform is starting to lose me due to the amount of work it takes to curate my feed now. God forbid I participate in one controversial discussion because my feed will be inundated with racist, authoritarian, and gender war bullshit.

There has got to be a better way to filter this garbage out rather than constantly muting subs I never joined in the first place. I figure if the algorithm is clever enough to push controversy surely it could be tailored to avoid it.