This is why an ActivityPub based, federated forum system might be the future here. Have it so you can join the network once, and carry the same username to any

This is why an ActivityPub based, federated forum system might be the future here. Have it so you can join the network once, and carry the same username to any other site on the network without anything resembling a signup process. Perhaps you could even have a choice of aggregators which then displayed content from all those sites in one place, or let you view a combined karma score or post count or whatever too. That'd fix most of Reddit's issues and then some.