Fubarberry

Depends, I was mainly active on small subreddits that were focused on things I was interested in. Here those small subs don’t exist yet (or are very inactive), but the lower overall user count means I’m interacting with a lot more communities than I would on reddit.

Current focus with apps seems to be on mindlessly consuming content. TikTok/Facebook/reddit/etc all are trying to just be a feed of content where you just sit down, scroll, and consume.

I’ve always preferred to look over a lot of posts/content and choose what to engage with depending on what’s interesting to me or what conversations I feel like I can meaningfully contribute to. I don’t want to just mindlessly scroll memes, that leaves me feeling depressed and numb.

I’m not against “user-friendly” UI, but I don’t like it when it’s non-customizable or hampers my ability to choose what I interact with.

I’m guessing the way the official app and new reddit has everything so large. I prefer to view reddit posts as a list where I can look over a lot of posts at a time and engage with the ones that look interesting. 3rd party apps and old reddit are good for this, but new reddit and the official app are clearly intending for me to mindlessly scroll through content looking at every single post in the feed. I can only see a 1-2 posts at a time, and it makes it very slow to find content worth my time.

You’re at the top of the bell curve.