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Comment by cameronfraser | Hacker News Reader

Remember when the reddit CEO edited a post that was critical of him and then came out and admitted to it? https://www.theverge.com/2016/11/23/13739026/reddit-ceo-stev...

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I do, and I also remember posting about it here and getting a lot of flak for it, and a ton of dismissal of the incident as an issue at all...

That incident was what made me leave Reddit:)

What do you use instead, if anything?

Nothing, really:\ Unfortunately, the direct competitors (Voat et al.) failed to attract enough content or users to be real competitors outside of very narrow communities/interests; ex. /v/linux existed, but it was basically dead, so there was nothing to go there for. So, I use HN more, browse more news aggregators, and hope the fediverse or something can come to fill the void.

Not OP but hackernews has been kind of my alternative. Think I've been spending too much time here as of late..

It’s frustrating to see people talk about niche subreddits and not mentioning any or talk about leaving reddit and not mention what they replaced it with.

You don't need to replace reddit with anything. We functioned fine without it most of our lives. It's time better spent doing a hobby or reading a book or even watching soap operas

He uses Reddit. Just like everyone else who claims to have left Reddit.

I left Reddit and I don't use it anymore. Why do you think such thing to be impossible?

Because they can't do it themselves so they're projecting onto everyone else, as usual.

That you have such a perception says more about you than him.

Given the state of r/The_Donald at the time what spez did was kind of funny, and I would like to think that any self respecting HNer would do something similar in that situation.

Yes, surely any superior HN user would downright alter the content of other people and try to sweep it under the rug when it is discovered - simply because he doesn't like those people. That truly is the right thing to do. And it's funny!

If you think of reddit as a service to the public and not your personal troll site, doing that kind of thing is terrible. It's like the CEO of a utility company shutting down electricity to people they have a private disagreement with. It hurts society if you let that pass (or encourage it), as you now need a competitor to enter the market or you'll have to submit to whatever private wishes the CEO has.

Reddit is not a utility company - people do not organise their lives through Reddit like they do Facebook etc. It's, at best, a sometimes vaguely informational entertainment site.

The same applies to information websites, imho.

Of course, in the end Reddit doesn't want to be a utility, it wants to be a cash grab. And it's fine to do whatever if your only goal is to get as much money as possible with no concern for anything else.

What was the state of r/The_Donald at the time?

Funny how much a single question can be feared.

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