The fall of Reddit: Why it’s quickly declining into chaos
I hate how many online communities have centralized themselves around reddit and discord.  I&#x27;m involved a lot of communities and fandoms where everybody congregates on those two platforms, and those two platforms alone.  Things were a lot better in the 00s when these sorts of communities existed primarily on webforums.<p>That said, I&#x27;m not sure how many of the problems are problems with reddit itself vs how many of the problems would still exist on other platforms even if reddit didn&#x27;t.  Forum moderators have always had a reputation for being napoleonic idiots who abuse their power for extremely petty purposes.  The problem of corporations and wealthy celebrities buying out moderators and admins to push their narratives and silence criticisms of their products[1] could easily have happened on webforums.<p>There&#x27;s an unfortunate drive towards centralization in online communities these days that we&#x27;d all be better without.  I personally think fediverse is the best solution to this as it centralizes communities without centralizing the actual platform, but I&#x27;m not so confident it will succeed when it&#x27;s up against well-funded and well-established platforms like facebook, reddit, etc.<p>[1] i don&#x27;t have any real proof there&#x27;s a monetary interest involved, but I&#x27;m perma-banned from &#x2F;r&#x2F;startrek for saying that the creators behind &quot;Star Trek: Picard&quot; and &quot;Star Trek Discovery&quot; probably aren&#x27;t even fans of Star Trek based on the shows&#x27; many discontinuities with their predecessors, and it makes me wonder if the mods are on paramount&#x27;s payroll or something.  This should not be a controversial statement after how terrible the most recent season of Picard was.