As a avid reddit user, these two sentences scare me more than any of the stuff that happened this year: > Huffman believes Reddit can be mainstream, embraced b

As a avid reddit user, these two sentences scare me more than any of the stuff that happened this year: > Huffman believes Reddit can be mainstream, embraced by the larger world. But for that to happen, he’ll need to clean up the product so that it is more straightforward for new users to try it out—without alienating the existing community members. Thing is, reddit is incredible fractured and all of the value I get from the site is because it is incredible fractured. I am not subscribed to any of the default subs (sub forums new users get subscribed to automatically) and in general I avoid /r/all which is just a cesspool of shallow memes. However behind this a some fantastic niche communities like r/worldbuilding and the history community (I avoid r/history though). And I believe, these communities thrive to a large part because reddit is fractured and I fear that a more mainstream reddit would look a lot more like a boring version of the current /r/all.