Eventually reddit will go the way of digg and fade into irrelevance.
The problem with reddit isn't technical, it's human. A large group of people will ruin literally anything.
and I don't especially want the admins of any one site to be able to erase my entire existence off the net on a whim.
single/token login from known net authority agents is common. I'd rather embrace that kind of thing than the idea that any one site should be our de facto forum and communications standard.
I was reminded of this recently when a personal favorite BB forum disappeared , taking years and years of niche automotive data with it. Data that was rare from the get-go, and un-replaceable now.
I'd rather decentralize my 'data-stores'. Reddit will disappear one day, and it's up to them to be a good actor towards the archival group, providing data bandwidth during a time when investors have become disinterested, and paying the light bill is near impossible.
I wouldn't count on that.
Keep archives, repeat information elsewhere , and most importantly : don't embrace adding and relying on centralized structure where doing so inherently adds weakness and fallibility.
Reddit’s content is already dumped and cloned in near-real-time. https://pushshift.io/
That'd fix most of Reddit's issues and then some.
A normal forum will have different sections to discuss everything even mildly related to the overarching topic, and a number of areas to talk about things not related to the topic. But Reddit doesn't have those features, so subs have to resort to these half measures or allow multiple daily posts about the same 5 topics.
The last I heard they still weren’t profitable.
It is far better than it was over a decade ago.
As an aggregator, it is nearly perfectly aligned with my interests (except for the year they spent heavily promoting Jimmy Fallon).
I read CNN multiple times a day.
As a news site, it is nearly perfectly aligned with my interests.
Where did I lose you?