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user-inactivated  ·  3480 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: If this is the beginning of the end for Reddit, then Reddit deserves to die

I think the reason that most people are 'mad' about Reddit changing into this safe, and commercially viable place is that they don't want that out of Reddit. Reddit's investors probably do, but its users don't. So when a site confirms its choice to favor its investors' concerns over its users' then you understandably get the masses angry.

I don't care about fatpeoplehate. Or batteredwives or niggers or any of the other subs that could be banned. I don't go to them because I don't want to see them. But I want to see censorship out my choices less. It doesn't change that these feelings exist in the world, and doesn't change anything but commercial viability for Reddit.

If Reddit doesn't deserve to lose users, I'm not saying die because Reddit is a site not a living thing, for turning on its users then what would it deserve to lose users for?