I want to think it’s actually an anti-pattern; as we are seeing many Reddit people are deleting their accounts so searching Reddit might be less useful in the future.
Not sure what the alternative is though. Some of the communities I participate in went to Discord instead but that has search problems as well.
Especially as a gay guy, seeing massively upvoted posts of a woman holding basically anything (but she’s wearing a low-cut top!!!!!!) got pretty exhausting.
I think (hope?) this was the push I needed to get away from reddit.
Realistically I think a lot of its "free speech" policies were pretty bad and encouraged a lot of hate. They were extremely slow to moderate what I would consider really obvious abuse and dogwhistle communities.
Them getting rid of the app I use to browse Reddit the most was certainly the straw that broke the camel's back. But it hasn't been great for awhile imho. Why not go to something better?
Yeah also their Discord/social situation is comically awful. Love the world though.