Maybe this will drive more people away from Reddit.

  • SJ0
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    9 months ago

    About to?

    It’s been pozzed for probably 15 years, definitely since it had a big part to play in Obama being elected the first time.

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      9 months ago

      2008 was Facebook/MySpace. Reddit had just started in 2007 and was tiny,

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        9 months ago

        It inherited digg around that time, so it was bigger than it should have been, and was growing. By 2012, remember that Obama did a TIL, showing how quickly it grew, just 4 years and everything was different.

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    9 months ago

    we could possibly accelerate that spiral. a bunch of subs like permanently shut down, so just open up alts of them, that we control, and drive users away by naturally not being cringe redditors lol

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    9 months ago

    What makes this unique is that it’s reddit itself signing off on it