Because the longer reddit went, the more it sucked.
It was like facebook in that way. It made the news, everyone's wine aunt, all of the grandmas, and every hippo and incel took to the site and fouled the entire thing up.
Even more like facebook, the shilling became intense and off-putting.
There are thousands of agencies right now, dominating reddit with call centre workers (earning sub-call centre tier wages) with the reliable method of "repost popular shit to popular subs until you've got enough karma to be reputable, then shill for a political party or a brand."
Popular reddit threads make the news these days. Think about that. On the news, they will go through a thread on reddit and talk about their favourite comments.
The same thing goes for mainstream blogs. Or mainstream youtube channels.
That leads a ton of people to migrate to reddit who wouldn't have otherwise, and it's led to a situation where the mainstream reddit subs have become the most cancerous part of the internet.
I'd say that reddit truly died the moment that the failure that was reddit gold was changed to paid reddit emojis.
People actually pay for fucking emojis to give to people whose comment they particularly like on reddit these days.
I'm amazed that Mark Zuckerberg never thought of that one.
Metacanada was closed voluntarily and for good reason. Fuck reddit.