Reddit was always doomed - it's kind of a surprise it's lasted as long as it did. They call themselves the "front page of the internet" and that's what they've

Reddit was always doomed - it's kind of a surprise it's lasted as long as it did. They call themselves the "front page of the internet" and that's what they've always wanted to be. But to be that, they have to be _completely_ open. No banning subreddits. No banning users. No deleting comments. And for the most part, that's what they were when they started (and I loved it back then). But that's not just not workable as a business model, it's not workable even if there was no cost involved, it invites too much blowback. The only reason we ever got the internet we have (or had, anyway...) was because it was completely decentralized, not in any one person's or organizations hands, and there was nobody to blame for "the whole thing" rather than one part of it.