This ignores astroturfing, abusive mods, user hostile tactics (forcing v.reddit on users and disallowing converting it to gifs - even banning a bot that did it at the website level), and a lot of other serious systemic problems with reddit's "community."

Reddit was once a community, but now it's an attempt to monetize its users - nothing more, nothing less. It's clearly already dying to anybody that isn't inside the echo chamber. It moved away from value creation years ago and is clearly in the death grip of value extraction.

I suspect it actually has a lot to do with their latest investment round 5 years ago, but this is purely speculation on my part.

https://venturebeat.com/2014/09/30/y-combinator-backers-upvo...