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Eens  ·  3211 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: If this is the beginning of the end for Reddit, then Reddit deserves to die

When thinking about the internet in general now vs. say, like 5 or so years ago, I'm always reminded of that scene in Pirates of the Caribbean where Cutler Beckett remarks that the world is smaller and there's less room for pirates now, that the pirates are a dying breed. Not that the internet is smaller...it just seems like it's being more sanitized I guess? Rather than being a sea of individual, anonymous-focused sites, people tend to cluster around the big sites. I think. I'm rambling. There just seems less place for anonymity on the internet. It's all commercial- get rid of offense, get rid of antagonism, make everything palatable to the general public instead of the small group of awkward tech-savvy people. I don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing.