"If Reddit is that unimportant, it should be easy to take those communities and move them elsewhere, but that isn’t happening. The reality is that without Reddi

"If Reddit is that unimportant, it should be easy to take those communities and move them elsewhere, but that isn’t happening. The reality is that without Reddit a large part of those communities wouldn’t exist, and they only exist because of Reddit." Oh boy. First, this already happened once, that's why Reddit exists. Second, it wasn't happening because it wasn't enough of a problem. Once they generate enough ire it will happen. Will this be enough? Maybe. If not, something else will. It always happens. always When for-profits are involed. You make the same mistake they do - to believe that the success they have is deliberate, and not just mostly dumb luck. Had Digg not failed, nobody would give the slightest shit about reddit. But right up until that point, what you said here could have been said about Digg. In fact, it was said. By lots of people. Yet they moved to Reddit. In the end, these communities don't exist because of reddit. They exist because people have shared interests. The only thing reddit enables is for them to find each other. If reddit disappears, they will find each other again. I've watched the end of similar sites. I had friends on them. We found each other again on other sites.