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Anyone else who used to be on Reddit in the early 2010s remember how it used to be a Wild West?(slrpnk.net)

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This comment was in a post about a guy who openly spilled secrets then got fired.

https://www.reddit.com/r/golf/comments/1dynric/rip_to_the_augusta_ama_guy_yesterday_who_was_not/

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morrowind@lemmy.ml
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That’s wild. I’ve only been there 5.5 yrs and I’ve noticed dramatic shifts in the culture as it’s become popular and profit focused

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Zorque@lemmy.world
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Same, I was on it for more than a decade. There’s definitely been dramatic shifts. Dunno what small community that other poster stuck to to not see any changes over a decade and a half, but it must have been fun for them.

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ThirdWorldOrder@lemm.ee
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This is the other poster

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HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com
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I used to on for about 10 and noticed a dramatic shift but on the other hand for years I was only looking at gaming subs then started looking at the more common ones. So that could possibly be part of it but it still seemed to get worse over time to me.

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sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyz
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I unsubscribed to all the gaming subs around gamergate, holy shit everything went downhill so quickly and never really recovered. We’re seeing the effects of it to this day.

I refused to participate in gaming communities online for a long time after that, only looked at my RSS feeds for news/official announcements. The migration to Lemmy last year has me participating in them a bit more again, as long as I don’t tell anyone I’m playing a Nintendo game, lol.

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Trail@lemmy.world
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Gamergate??

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Dkarma@lemmy.world
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The comments alone were a huge shift.

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