Feb 21, 2019: All of the 50 highest trending posts across all of reddit were removed by moderators

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[–]HurkaDurka 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

This all points to why Reddit is going to fail. Countless Reddit replacements are popping up, and ones like Saidit and Vote are growing quickly. Even this new dissenter app and site will take people away from Reddit. Turns out people don't like being censored, silenced, and erased. Weird...

[–]magnora7 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yup. And before this there was digg.com, a site similar to reddit, which fell much quicker and more spectacularly because it didn't have the subreddit/sub system, and reddit learned from it but is basically going down the same route.

This was the straw that broke the camel's back for digg, it's an interesting read: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AACS_encryption_key_controversy

That and the site redesign they pushed that hid advertisements as real content, all 3 of those redesigns triggered exoduses from digg to reddit. Which is basically what reddit is doing now, and people are starting to leave