>I don't want to register zillions of forums and manage my passwords. and I don't especially want the admins of any one site to be able to erase my entire exis

>I don't want to register zillions of forums and manage my passwords. and I don't especially want the admins of any one site to be able to erase my entire existence off the net on a whim. single/token login from known net authority agents is common. I'd rather embrace that kind of thing than the idea that any one site should be our de facto forum and communications standard. I was reminded of this recently when a personal favorite BB forum disappeared , taking years and years of niche automotive data with it. Data that was rare from the get-go, and un-replaceable now. I'd rather decentralize my 'data-stores'. Reddit will disappear one day, and it's up to them to be a good actor towards the archival group, providing data bandwidth during a time when investors have become disinterested, and paying the light bill is near impossible. I wouldn't count on that. Keep archives, repeat information elsewhere , and most importantly : don't embrace adding and relying on centralized structure where doing so inherently adds weakness and fallibility.