Interesting comment.. thanks for that! I remember the earlier days of reddit vaguely but wasn't really a part of it because I was just a kid and not interested at the time.

The consensus among a lot of replies to this post is basically that with diversity and popularity comes an inevitable shift to heavy moderation and censorship. But is that inevitable, or is it just something that admins have chosen to do on several websites? Is it possible for a website to be popular and for the leadership of that website to refuse to engage in censorship? Idk.

Either way, I'm learning to appreciate saidit for what it is.