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Corvus  ·  3212 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: If this is the beginning of the end for Reddit, then Reddit deserves to die

Well, the article put it really well -- if reddit dies because of the end of those hatemongering subreddits, then it deservers to die. In practice, it's not going to die, or even get close to it. If the past has taught us anything about reddit is that people will remember this for about as long as Dory remembers what the last sentence said was. Still, some people will leave reddit. These people will probably be more old time reddit users that are tired of the community that trolls. Trolls will continue trolling around there, and, if anything, might try to switch to voat (since the interface and functionality is pretty much the same, as compared to hubski).





user-inactivated  ·  3212 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I guess I'm in that boat. I've been on Reddit since 2009 or 2010 and the quality has gotten to the point where if I forget to log in, I don't even recognize what the default front page is anymore.

The people leaving now are either going to go back because they don't really care about any of this and it's just the issue du jour, or they have been planning to leave for a while anyway. I'm in that. I'll maintain a presence until that presence is reproduced elsewhere, and then I'll be gone for good. There's just no site that does what Reddit does as well as Reddit when Reddit does what Reddit does well.