"Huffman believes Reddit can be mainstream, embraced by the larger world." It might sound hipster-like, but whatever: mainstream is boring, stupid and brings a

"Huffman believes Reddit can be mainstream, embraced by the larger world." It might sound hipster-like, but whatever: mainstream is boring, stupid and brings all the worst type of people. Best online communities are niche, small and focused. Reddit for a long while was just a big pool of niche communities. They were good subreddits, there were ugly subreddits, and things were OK. But with time it grew popular and now it needs to "take a stance on political correctness, social justice etc", "people get offended", it's bad for business, while the company needs to monetize after so many years ... so rules needs to be imposed, etc. etc. Racist people will move elsewhere, hate will move elsewhere, they won't disappear - that's for sure. But most creative people will also move as they were on reddit for what it used to be. There's a reason why these "awful" places like 4Chan and Reddit were the source of most of online trends and interesting action: "Pretty Flowers Grow In Shit". Reddit is doomed, just like digg was. It won't happen over night (digg.com is still around), no, but it will. Hopefully something p2p and decentralized (zeronet maybe?) will replace it this time, so it won't be owned by any entity to impose some stupid rules.