To them, they really, truly, honestly do believe that Reddit “was right to just quell the protest and stay their course”. After all, “first they came for X, and I did not speak out—Because I was not a X”.

Now, mind you, when Reddit eventually comes for THEM (maybe killing off old-Reddit, maybe they’ll need to ditch NSFW content in order to keep advertisers happy, moderation will be of noticeably lower quality, bots will be rampant, etc.), they will be shocked, shocked I tell you, SHOCKED (well, they shouldn’t be that shocked, imho:-), and probably even then they will agree with ~~daddy~~ spez that it is all the fault of those ~~hard-working volunteers~~ traitorous basturds who abandoned their communities for… (checks notes) “no (real) reason whatsoever”. Some, I should say, might be nice people… but nonetheless they will go along with it, “for the sake of peace”. Those who do not know their history must consistently be doomed to repeating it, and these days the word “collaborator” has no meaning whatsoever, since very few alive has had to live through the reality of what it means (although a Ukrainian might be able to shed some light on that point… and possibly, dare I say, even a handful of Russians whose entire families have already been killed for the glory of the motherland:-D).

Another point is that people should never have trusted Reddit to begin with. We could have been developing social media technology like this all along this whole entire time, at the very least giving Reddit the tiniest of competition. Tbf, the world didn’t know what it was like inside the “walled gardens” of Meta, Apple, Google (Don’t Be Evil), except for those of us who actually read books that predicted such things, sometimes hundreds of years in advance. HG Wells’ Time Machine springs to mind for some reason, with the whole underclass of humans as food animals and the real engineers having diverged into a literally different species (the exact opposite of what Homo sapiens did to neanderthals!:-P). There is nothing new under the sun - people who see far are able to do so b/c they see clear to the true hearts of men. OF COURSE Reddit was going to do this - it was inevitable, and always only a matter of time. Well, now we know, I suppose.