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by gdulli 3468 days ago
The saddest thing about the fact that Reddit hasn't been disrupted is what that says about the collective tolerance of what it is.
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maybe we don't read the same subreddits, but /r/programming /r/woodworking and /r/personalfinance are all mostly cordial.
That's the thing about reddit - it's so big that you can find whatever you want. Whether you want polite discussion about woodworking, erotic fan-fiction, or examples of horrible racism and misogyny so you can write an article for HuffPoabout how horrible Reddit is, you will find what you're looking for.

But I'm pretty sure that was true of the internet before Reddit came along, too. And I don't see how combining all of those discussion groups under the same domain made the world any worse than back when they were three separate message boards.