I use old.reddit.com and have a heavily filtered r/all for general news (which I could do without), and specifically participating in discussions that are almost entirely text around what may or may not be a text post.
Other people use it like an image board or video feed.
I do agree that reducing the amount of media can mitigate junk, though.
I used this method on reddit myself. It's just a userstyle, so I turn it off occasionally, but it makes it a voluntary action I have to turn back on if I want to see it.
Helped out, I think. Along with carefully practicing not escalating and picking when to just not comment.
Because if there's a facility that grants out-of-browser data to the remote, the remote can deny service unless it is enabled.
Unless the feature is designed to fake data and make permission status opaque to the remote, it's a privacy reduction that will happen, the only question is when.
`$validated = ['key' => 'value']; $validated['status'] = 'pending'; Order::create($validated);`