I installed the official Reddit app and went on it to see what the old place was looking like now. My inbox was filled with spam. The “home feed” shows subs I never subscribed to. There are so many ads. Between the ads and the the extra subs in the feed, it’s hard to just scroll. I also noted a lot of spam in some of the subs. Maybe they are subs with no mods? I’m not sure what’s up with that.
It has certainly been hard to find a good place to discuss current events with a leftist crowd. I’ve migrated to Spacebattles, SufficientVelocity, and RPG.net and already been banned permanently from SB by an admin with a personal grievance, and the other two sites are simply too small and slow to have much worthwhile discussion. Now I’m checking out Lemmy, but we’ll see how that goes.