This thread is so sad. Reddit was a big important part of the internet for like 15 years. People used to do massive Reddit meetups all the time back around 20

This thread is so sad. Reddit was a big important part of the internet for like 15 years. People used to do massive Reddit meetups all the time back around 2010, and some of them were really fun. I still have some very close, family like friends that I met at those meetups. But now? Almost every comment here talks about how much they hate it. I honestly agree with the hate, and again that’s really sad to me. I truly think it’s the moderators that destroyed it. Reddit didn’t do a good job of defining their roles, and they power tripped their way into community destroying behavior. Half the people I know who used to run and attend meetups for my city’s subreddit are now banned from even participating in it, always from some stupid petty fight the moderators had with them[1]. It makes me wonder what types of people are still posting there? [1] there was a big push a while ago to replace the community mods with people who do “social media” professionally. The old mods that live in my city and people know got semi-threatened with doxxing (hey nice job you have there do they know your Reddit account?) and removed themselves to be replaced by “professionals”. Such pathetic internet drama. Anyway: we all collectively pour one out for the Reddit that once was. It can go to internet heaven with fark, slashdot, digg, stumbleupon, delicious, etc.