I remember several years ago r/Casual Conversation was brimming with interesting and candid discussion. As it gained more and more traction I saw it go through the same evolution that killed r/IAmA and r/askreddit. More popularity means more traffic, more traffic means more posts, more posts means stricter moderating, stricter moderating means less “casual” posts. Before long it was just another upvote machine, and that’s when I dipped out.
So having said that, how is your morning going? Did you do anything cool this weekend?
Highlight of the weekend was some light yard work and spending way too much time watching Reddit go dark on Reddark. Hard to describe the sensation of watching so many subs go, one by one–sometimes in a bunch at the top of the hour as another timezone reached midnight. It was a mix of elation and dread.