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user-inactivated · 3525 days ago · link · · parent · post: PayPal Cuts Off Reddit Clone Voat Over 'Obscenity'
SomethingAwful could do what it did because they're a single community with a shared culture. People talk about the reddit community, but it doesn't really exist. There's not much overlap between /r/aww and /r/coontown. Reddit is more like Usenet, except that Usenet could be what it was because it really was just a platform. There was no Usenet, Inc to turn the screws on.
Very true. Reddit, then, is the ugly middle ground: something that isn't a community, with a central authority to take the blame, pretending that it's a community... with a mascot, meetups, gift exchanges, the whole nine yards. Reddit had a community once but it's been on the decline since the Saydrah witch hunt.