How Reddit Was Destroyed: The power now resided in individual subreddits, obviously the most popular ones. There was a power grab to become moderators of these subreddits. Once the default subreddits were controlled, drastic changes began to occur.

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[–]Honklomancer 6 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

Will Reddit die? Or will the sheep continue to graze in the poisoned pasture?

[–]magnora7 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

The latter. There will be migrations away from reddit, but probably no "death knell" like there was for digg.com, because reddit is so compartmentalized with the subreddit system. It'll go in waves as people reach their limit with whatever subreddits they care about. Reddit is going IPO in 2020 so they're all about keeping those user numbers up and keeping everything looking nice and "family friendly" for investors.

[–]Snow 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

It never looks family friendly.

[–]magnora7 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I mean "family friendly" in the sense of conforming to modern mainstream media standards, aka taking out the "undesirable elements", a group of things which grows larger and larger as they get closer to IPO