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finally nuking my reddit account

it’s wild how when we’re younger and less experienced we kinda can’t envision what it would be like to simply stop using a web site that we form a habit of checking every day almost like that site is a part of our computers or phones or whatever

and then we walk away from it and realise how much of a sink it was, and not even the good kind of sink with dogs.

it’s just… all turning into this grey goo, eh? the only time i was landing on reddit in the past year was for obscure tech troubleshooting posts, and now it’s all being fed into the plagiarism contraption and i don’t know if five years from now i’ll be able to find anything of use on the web, like this grand arc of evolution where search started out pretty hit and miss and shitty then got better, and now it’s descending into senility with SEO cholesterol clogging the internet’s arteries, and there’s fuckin autocomplete web articles and mushroom guides on amazon that will get you killed

fuck, i miss the old web