The similarities are amazing, especially considering Reddit was one of the succesors of Digg. They can now enable other successors by making stupid decissions and alienating core users.

I wonder if this speaks to the unsustainability of platforms like these, or the cycle can be broken by making good decissions.

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    That was an interesting read, thanks for posting.

    Personally I think it’s like that Dark Knight quote “you either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain”. I left Twitter, Facebook, Snapchat, and Instagram due to changes they made. I’m not overly surprised I left Reddit