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API access was only half the problem. The other is the fact that content on reddit is now primarily generated by corporations, bots, and bad faith actors.
Going there for specific threads (e.g. help posts in programming subs) seems okay-ish, but scrolling the front page is a doomed endeavor at this point... not much different from Facebook or Instagram.
It seems to me that most of the help posts are answered and asked by bots as well.
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I'm not sure this is a change. A LOT of 'help' articles for Linux are deeply technical procedures that amount to
yum install nano
with a lot of fluff.So it’s like cooking recipes but for programming. I hope they at least add some useless background info about their Nana using DOS or what have you.