Reddit tries to be just a platform, but it fails in two ways: 1) Namespace of subreddits. The subreddit which snags the most obvious name for a topic has a muc

Reddit tries to be just a platform, but it fails in two ways: 1) Namespace of subreddits. The subreddit which snags the most obvious name for a topic has a much better chance of becoming canonical for that topic that competitors with worse names. 2) Cross-subreddit identity and supporting tooling. For example, i can easily search for all recent posts made by a particular user, but i can't easily search for all posts made by a particular user within one specific subreddit. This sort of thing promotes "cultural leakage" across reddits and makes people think of all of Reddit as one community with one culture. Related: see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16573842 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16573842 which summarizes a study that finds cultural leakage across subreddits.