I always felt the rise of fake stories came with the change to karma for text posts. It used to be that a text post gave no karma and so there was no incentive to karma farm that way. Once the change happened, many text-based subreddits had their quality drop dramatically.

Did you post to r/amitheasshole? I used to love that one

Yes, a magazine is just a community or subreddit. I prefer the UI of Kbin but the terminology takes some getting used to. There’s also regular posts and microblogs.

I plan to stay on Lemmy/Kbin and abandon reddit for the most part

Gallowboob sounds so familar. Who was that again?