I'd rather the growth here be much more organic and discovery driven, than by a mass exodus of users from another platform all rushing in. Mobile app's were 'far' from being the only reason to leave Reddit.

Befitting first comment. <3.

Got to admit, I'm still curious to see what Rossmann has to say on the matter. Man sometimes has interesting opinions in this sphere.

Anyone commenting on this site now is in a very specific tech bubble.

And it may be better that it ends up this way. Tech people at least in my experience, tend to be more balanced and level headed discussing topics outside of tech, than people who are single-issue, obsessed with other topics.

If we're partitioning user engagement from the growth in echo chambers, Reddit's seen continued drop off in community engagement for nearly a decade now. This only marks the bigger nail in the coffin.

Most of the changes will happen behind the scenes as they usually do. Reddit rarely conducts it's extremely underhanded shit out in the open, unless the publicity is going to be unavoidable.

Indeed it is. All I really want is a place where I can intellectually engage with people in good faith, even when people disagree with me; finding it productive, fun and maybe learning a thing or two. Constantly being called a "bigot," "fascist," "asshole," "idiot," "moron," really leaves it wanting.

So it's actually happening...

Considering how far the left-wing went off the deep end, I suppose it shouldn't surprise me.

I almost don't want them to succeed, so the exodus can continue to happen. Then again, I don't want this place overrun with their overwhelmingly idiot userbase.

I remember getting a lot of push back not too long ago, when I tried telling a group of people that 'good news' is something you have to pay for, because it's difficult to do.

The MSM, Fox, CNN, MSNBC, all that crap is simply the most overt propaganda, tailor made for a mass audience, and free, precisely because it isn't valuable. A subscription to something like The Economist, beats anything the average person wants to compare it to. Or those one-man progressive outlets on YouTube, who went to community college and left with a degree, run their gig out of a one bedroom studio, and think they've got the entire world figured out.

For the average person, open source doesn't mean very much. I much prefer it as a bit of a techie, but that isn't where the debate lies as a matter of what's important to the common user. People individually have to decide what their point of tradeoffs are between convenience and privacy, and what their intended goals are. If you're trying to disappear, open source may matter a lot more. If you don't want every corporation knowing where you live, but the US Marshalls aren't after you, closed proprietary systems may very well be acceptable.