Reddit is bad, but as long as facebook, twitter and indeed 4chan is around, it is not yet the toilet of the internet. More like your kitchen sink drain of the internet.

Unless you have specific wants (which casual users mostly doesn’t), you don’t need terminal to install most apps on CachyOS.

Congrats. Now you can go to lemmy.ml and get banned for the exact same thing.

Who could have foreseen that a subculture based on spreading anti-scientism and unfounded paranoia, all in good fun of course, would be co-opted by right wing political propaganda for political purposes?

/s

It was always right wing political shit. It just became even shittier. There is nothing glorious to preserve here, except perhaps as a good example of the fascist pipeline in action.

Nah, they will keep the corpse alive and possibly even more thriving (at least to the shareholders) with bot accounts. It is quite clear that a shitload of AI bots are being tested out in various subs at the moment.

Edit: An example of such an AI bot.

They have already been trying to bully old.reddit users for quite some time by forcing a regular cookie acceptance prompt which automatically changes the settings to new reddit.