You are not crazy: we’ve seen reports where whole entire posts along with every single comment underneath them were copied nearly word for word, though separated years apart (I’m talking like a decade here). The usernames were changed, but it was extremely recognizeable what happened there.

The motive to maximize profits, to the exclusion of all other criteria (such as morality) very obviously rules Reddit right now. And Google (extremely unfortunately now touching Android), and Meta, and Apple, and every other large mega-corporation. This is no conspiracy theory when the very CEOs themselves state this clearly and unambiguously - the masks worn in prior decades are now off.

In any capitalist society, the mantra applies that the buyer must beware. Keeping corporate power in check is somehow communist, and therefore seen in an enormously negative light by conservatives.

Sorry, you said you wanted to step away from politics. Okay then I’ll just say that Reddit got bad for “reasons”, which will never change in the future; however while they are free to do whatever they please, so too are you. Welcome here where we’ve made our own forum boards like the days of old, minus ads, minus spez, no Algorithm controlling your feed (I mean obviously any sequence of steps is an “algorithm” but sorting All or Subscribed posts by New hardly qualifies compared to Reddit’s “pushing” controversial enragebait content while actively hiding… ah… “other” content - cough socialist cough - and pushing other stuff in its place, Praise Be To Our Totalitarian Leader May He Live Forever…), add in blackjack and hookers, and we are ready to go! :-P