My habit for the last few years has just been adding “site:reddit.com” to my Google searches. It’s more often than not given me real human answers to the questions I had, way more often than a standard search. I don’t know how I’m going to adjust if Reddit just fully falls apart.

I initially balked at the idea when I read about it here but then realized how toxic it can be. I thought about and realized that the short burst of enjoyment I got out of downvoting especially hateful, bigoted, stupid etc. comments was not really very healthy. The original concept of downvoting in Reddit was supposed to be about downvoting content that didn’t contribute to the conversation rather than content you didn’t like. But in practice, the people who post constant negativity and hate aren’t deterred by the downvoted anyway, often enjoy farming for the downvotes, and end up getting promoted anyway through the “controversial” sorting alrgorithm.