>For some insane reason they're competing with Instagram and Reddit's management is driving the site as a business, which means doing things for the purpose of

>For some insane reason they're competing with Instagram and Reddit's management is driving the site as a business, which means doing things for the purpose of maximizing revenue according to the perception of what's "successful". Facebook is evil but successful at it, Instagram is (was) successful. The path they see to making money is to try to become the next XXXX, where XXXX is the "successful" social media site of the month. Reddit was originally driven by user need and the desire for functionality, and innovation and working with the user community helped it grow. Not so anymore. Ultimately, someone/something has to pay for the resources such a site uses, and finding a working profit model that can keep businesses like Reddit functioning is not easy. Reddit is a zombie at this point - there's no solid alternative to it, despite what some people seem to think, so there's nowhere for people to go. Once there's another option, Reddit is going to rather quickly become a ghost town.