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As the Reddit war rages on, community trust is the casualty (arstechnica.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

My experience of Reddit was obviously very different from yours then. I know a number of people directly by their usernames who I would say I'm quite fond of, and who I considered—not quite friends exactly, but pretty close to it. A few users I have met in-person and had drinks with.

I've had the same account for 11 years, and in that time have interacted with a lot of people and had what I considered very valuable discussion. It's sentimental, but I value that. I'm saddened to see it go away.

There are more pragmatic reasons to be sad about Reddit's demise too. The fact that you could just append "reddit" to nearly any Google Search and get results that were usually far better than the often-clickbait-ridden results that would turn up otherwise was made possible by Reddit's scale. That's a very valuable aspect that will be gone.