I don't think it was ever really good. People were more interested in making wild prompts than actually writing them.

90% of reddit self submissions on ALL read like responses to a writing prompt.

Submitted a prompt where a redditor actually writes a story but it got deleted because the premise was too unrealistic

I haven't been there in a while, but it did at least used to be kinda good right? I remember a few decent stories I read there. It's mostly bad, but it is just meant as a place where people can write without much judgement or having to think of an idea so I don't really see the low quality as a problem

I simply do not lurk or post on r*ddit because I am not a lib.

Christ, writingprompts was one of the first subs I blocked, absolute dogshit

" does something le clever and epic, now write it out for me"

Oh, god, searching that guy's name on that sub can inflict lethal amounts of psychic damage. I think this one takes the cake (though it could be written into an entertaining story about how he massively fucked up his intended mission)

Seems like it yeah, r/hfy is also shitty. A shame because this bite/post size story format could be very fun, we should think of making a community for that here, one that would be actually good of course.

I'd like to know an actually good community of peoples writing short stories, unfortunately we don't seem to have any here on lemmy and the only "short stories community" I know outside here are r/writingprompt and r/hfy.