Louis Rossmann calls community to leave Reddit
Reddit&#x27;s main value is (was?) <i>collective</i> convenience and familiarity. Like Whatsapp. Like Facebook. Those social networks where you wish that everybody you&#x27;re connected with would just quit to join something else, together, all at once. But your family and friends just won&#x27;t budge. You could hate the management itself, but knew what to expect from it and could find solace in the idea that &quot;surely, they won&#x27;t shoot themselves in the foot!&quot; A <i>devil you know</i> kinda deal.<p>But now, Reddit has gone and shot itself in the foot and the communities are trying to understand what it means for them.<p>The difficulty to find a new home is likely political. So many users migrating to a single new network is a lot of power afforded to any one entity. In an age where so many visionaries have claimed to want a good future for humanity, but ended up either selling that dream away, or revealing their own dystopian version of it, who are you going to trust? Short of the enduring brand and gravitas of something like the Wikimedia Foundation, or Craigslist, who are you going to entrust such a responsibility?