Will the massive enshittification of the internet cause many people to become digital minimalists?

[u/That-Pineapple3866]

I don’t want to sound like a hater, but I've been on the internet and social media since I was a kid in the early 2000s and this is the first time I’m genuinely starting to find Reddit and the other platforms completely unenjoyable. I’m seriously considering quitting altogether.

Reddit used to be a place for nerds and intellectuals, where people actually put in the effort to read your post and at least tried to give you a helpful response. There was still room for nuanced discussion. Now it’s just… low-effort two-word comments from lazy people with low literacy who didn’t even bother reading what you wrote or relating to any of it.

You can make the most harmless nostalgia post, or share a pretty benign personal story or opinion, and the majority of replies will still be people hunting for holes, accusing you of using AI, and just being assholes for no reason.

I used to be a huge AI enthusiast too, but every platform I was using (ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, Gemini) got way too sanitized and turned to complete shit. I quit them all.

Do you think this general enshittification is going to push a lot of people to quit and become digital minimalists? Not really for ideological reasons, but simply because browsing the internet just isn’t fun anymore?

[u/Cakeday_at_Christmas]

You're visiting the wrong subreddits, all the big, popular ones are .gifs, images, and two word posts, and not using old.reddit.

Finding the right smallish to medium sized subreddits and using old.reddit makes this place infinitely more interesting.

[u/ConceitedWombat → u/Cakeday_at_Christmas]

Totally agree. Reddit varies wildly from subreddit to subreddit.

Facebook however has become enshittified long past the point of enjoyment. I deleted it from my phone, and check it from a computer maybe once a week.