Platform Decay

You’re a ‘Bad User’ to Reddit. And They’re Coming for You.

Reddit is systematically degrading old Reddit through a thousand small cuts — login walls, broken incognito, killed APIs — to push out “bad users” who don’t generate ad revenue. But the users they’re shedding are the same ones who built the culture, wrote the deep-dive posts, and moderated the communities that made Reddit worth billions. This is the enshittification playbook in real time.