I wish that we could all migrate to something new, just as swiftly as it happend with digg. It seemed like it took just days. Reddit is long overdue to die.
Anything I want to learn more about I can search for and find detailed descriptions/reviews/stories from real people talking about their real products with no advertising cluttering up my experience. It's a delight.
Disclaimer: I exclusively use Apollo, which is why I never see any ads.
Reddit takes me back to when everything was forums and message boards. Good times.
Not only will Discord become unusable but large quantities of very specific knowledge will now be unindexable and therefore unarchiveable, lost for future generations. It will be a sad day for the internet.
but the biggest problem is, as I see it, there isn't anywhere new to go, really.
Reddit was a great upgrade from what digg was offering, threaded comments and subreddits and much more democratic moderation.
What's the alternative to reddit, what does it offer?
The ousting process has been updated a few months ago ( https://www.reddit.com/r/redditrequest/wiki/top_mod_removal ).
Unless you get to one real person, one vote (a significant hurdle) and avoid the possibility of a brigade from one interested and determined group, such a process would inevitably be far worse.
fatpeoplehate, incels, thedonald
They would go out into other parts of the site and be spread their pessimism with unnecessary arguments. It made the site more of an echo chamber, less diverse, and less supportive of free speech, but it did make many places less tedious