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While I certainly wouldn't be against Reddit (or any corporation) failing, I don't see a reason to hope for it.
At the end of the day, all Reddit is doing its changing the terms of the agreement between them and their users. Some will agree to the new terms, some (like me) won't. And despite what people are saying, in the end, that's okay. Things ate allowed to change, and things are allowed to end.
I totally get why people feel hurt and upset about this sudden and major shift, but if I was angry at them for restricting access to their website, it feels paradoxical to react by wanting the website gone. It's just revenge for the sake of revenge.
I dunno, I'm still feeling this all out too, but I guess I just think the best way forward is to offer alternatives so that people don't feel trapped by one company's decisions.
I do. I find their business practice to be unwanted, I want less companies to treat their users like that. Having companies that behaves like reddit go under will make other companies not behave like that. And if it doesn't, we'll run out of companies that behaves like reddit because they've all crashed and burned.
It's not revenge. It's not hate. It's me hoping there will less of what I consider bad in the world. If anything, it's love towards the future me and you.
And sure things are allowed to change and end, but it's still a tragedy when something beautiful is drained of it's lifeblood because of greed. Like what slowly happened to reddit over close to a decade.