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There's More to the Reddit Meltdown Than Meets the Eye (attilavago.medium.com)
submitted 1 year ago by curt@beehaw.org to c/technology@beehaw.org
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This article is on Medium, which has a paywall. I'm a member, but not logged in. I was able to read it so it may depend on how many times you've read Medium articles.

One point he made that I found interesting was:

So, in light of all of this, should Reddit even exist? Is there really a point to a web forum in 2023? Aren’t we past all that?

He thinks we are. I never thought about it before. Maybe in the case of some Reddit subreddits and other forums, but I don't think so in general. I've got a lot great information from forums.

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[–] lemonh3ad@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’m here for anonymity and it was one of the first things I loved about reddit.

[–] NightOwl@lemmy.one 3 points 1 year ago

I too am here for anonymity. I signed up with lemmy because it didn't even require an email address so I didn't need to go through the process of generating a throw away like kbin does. I like that I could just have discussions with users without knowing anything about them and it only being a topic of interest that brought about the conversation. Then departing from the conversation not remembering who the user was aside from the nice discussion.