Reddit Adds Presence Indicator

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Wow, reddit is really strongly attempting to be Facebook lately. I was one of the detractors of the "reddit is becoming Facebook!" comments when they did their redesign, but it definitely seems like it's trying to become Facebook or Discord. Quite possibly, the worst of both, mixed together!

A glance at its front page seems to add credence to that line of thinking.

Completely agreed. If the redesign was the first impression of reddit that I had, I would have assumed it was another news spam site and not created an account or used it daily for the last 10 years.

Every recent feature they release that contributes to the "social media"-ization of reddit has not added anything useful to the reddit experience. I wonder what their driving goal is at the moment, besides the likely upcoming IPO.

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