I was an active user there for something like 16 or 17 years. I watched it grow up from when it was smaller than digg. It was my goto, a place where I felt at home, where there were great displays of cleverness and compassion. It has slowly decayed from its early greatness but pockets of it kept me going like tolkienfans and askhistorians. This latest thing feels like spez just took a shit on the entire concept of Reddit, declared war on it and I will never forgive him for that. He never understood the creation he participated in. You don’t own Reddit. You can only be its custodian. Reddit is not a place. Its a community. Now that community needs to be here, which is a good thing because clearly any corporate ownership of a community will only end badly.

Resurrect Aaron Swartz and have him run it.

I think they made their bed, and I’m fully okay with them sleeping in it.

Even if they roll back everything and I’d be the only one not sleeping in it with them, I’d pass.

I’ve noticed this change has also been good for my overall mental health.

I’m done there. I want to try this new adventure that I think has the potential for a healthier underpinning. I’m going to try and help it grow, and maybe the architecture will catch on and get us a little further away from all the corporate controlled entities that show their true colors when they think they can make more serious money.

They should fire Huffman, enter into an honest conversation with 3PA developers on what’s a reasonable price point and a reasonable timeline, back off on all the mod firing, and tell the users they were wrong and misguided. Even if they did all that, though, I don’t see myself going back (and my account was 8 years old with 247K karma, pretty much all from comments, so I was an active user).

At this point there’s nothing they can do to regain my trust, and considering they want to go public, they can only get worse.

Public trading is the cancer of our financial world, nothing good ever comes out of it.