I tend to agree with you. I joined Reddit back before the time they allowed sub-reddits to be created at well. My view of the site was more or less entirely /r/

I tend to agree with you. I joined Reddit back before the time they allowed sub-reddits to be created at well. My view of the site was more or less entirely /r/programming, which had a post celebrating 65,536 users. This was also around the time they switched from using Lisp to Python: https://redditblog.com/2005/12/05/on-lisp/ https://redditblog.com/2005/12/05/on-lisp/ Then at some point, the site opened up sub-reddit creation and a vast new world popped up around 'me' that I was completely oblivious to. (And /r/programming is now at 1,700,000 users...) The site's changed a lot over the years, and not necessarily in ways that are immediately obvious. (But that lisp post is almost 15 years old, so maybe that shouldn't be a surprise.)